I’m fairly medically aware but my symptoms are flummoxing me!
Started on Wednesday when I woke up with bad back ache, pain between my shoulder blades. Thought I’d slept funny and had tweaked a muscle. However, pain didn’t go away, but proceeded to ‘move around’. So during the day, i either had pain in my upper back, or it had moved to my shoulder, then in my chest (centre slightly left), then by ribcage at the front. This continued all through Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. No pain at rest though, only when I moved. My thinking swung from ‘I’ve definitely pulled a muscle’ to ‘I have heartburn’ to ‘shit, should I go to A&E because its now hurting where my heart is’. I didn’t call 111 or OOH GP because by Saturday I’d had the pain for 4 days and I figured if it were serious I would have probably collapsed by that point (and I didn’t fancy a 6 hour wait in A&E for tests). So far all the pain had been either center or left side of chest/back.
On Sunday, I woke up and all the pain had gone. Brilliant. Same yesterday, not so much as a twinge. But today, the pain is back - but this time on the upper right of my chest - and I can only think that there is a lung in that particular position.
It’s not plueretic pain (ie no difference in levels of pain when breathing in), its just a dull ache.
I’m therefore thinking referred pain from somewhere else because it keeps ‘jumping’ position as to where the pain is located? Does anyone have any idea?
Getting a GP appt isn’t easy and I don’t want to waste their time and likewise A&E locally is rammed at the moment and it doesn’t feel serious enough for that as its been going on since last Wednesday.