Mild Chest Pain: GP, Physio, Ignore?

[NotQuiteCockney]

Since last night, I've had a mild sort of chest pain, in the top left bit of my chest, up towards the shoulder.

I often get this exact pain when I run, as a sort of stitch, so I know it's nothing sinister.

But now it hurts whenever I try to breathe in deeply. It's worse in some positions (e.g. if I lean back with my right shoulder), and my shoulders, between the shoulder bone and the neck, particularly on my back, are tender. So I'm thinking it's some sort of muscle problem. Has anyone had anything like this?

I'm a bit worried it's something up with my left lung. I have mild asthma, this isn't an asthma attack.

I'd go to the docs to on the safe side.

bearing in mind there is a lot of viral pneumonia about at the moment, I would suggest a trip to the GP's may be in order.

Wouldn't I have to feel unwell to have pneumonia? I feel slightly under the weather, in a coldy sort of way, but not ill ill.

Oh, but I have made a GP appointment for tomorrow. They won't let me self-refer to the surgery physio over the phone.

good lass

The GP agreed - probably physio.

She did say it might be a blood clot in my lung, and that if I had sudden bad breathing difficulties, to go to A+E. Which is good to know, generally I ignore sudden bad breathing difficulties. (She was a nice GP at least, and realised she was saying something a bit silly.)

Anyway, it's getting better, so the iboprofen must have helped. Hopefully the physio will be able to explain it to me.

Glad it does not seem to be anything scary NQC
FYI yrs ago I had chest pain for days, bit of a cold and cough, hurt liek hell.
got told first it was an intercostal muscle strain
bronchitis
pleurisy
When I started coughing up blood they then panicked and treated me for pneumonia AND a blood clot, it was pneumonia
So at least your GP mentioed it early on in the piece LOL
Hope you feel better soon

I suffer with this

costochondritis

painful but totally benign and soothed with nurofen

it flares up when I am poorly or run down

Interesting, Enid. My pain is in that area, but it comes on from deep breathing, or from certain positions. If I lean back with my right shoulder, the pain comes much more strongly in the left. So I'm hoping it's a muscle/physio thing, rather than a cartiledge thing. Oh, and my ribs aren't tender to the touch.

if it doesnt hurt when you press it then it it is not it (IYSWIM!)

I totally understand. It's not that, then. I'm pretty sure it's muscular, it feels like that.

Maybe it was that the GP was checking for when she poked me on the ribs.

I'm quite glad it's not that, frankly, I already have some amusing recurring conditions, and don't need more (tracheitis, labyrinthitis, and tongue thrush when pregnant).

lol

its my only recurring condition and I am quite fond of it

Well, sure. One recurring condition is an interesting quirk. But after a few, you just become a mad hypochondriac. I think I've got my full quota of strange recurring conditions.

I'll accept new ones that give me superpowers, but otherwise, no thanks.

hope you get to the bottom of it anyway

enid!
I'm being treated for that right now, with physio.
I get a compressed nerve, 1st and 2nd a 3rd ribs problems
caused by ta da carrying a baby carseat...