Anyone else have this?

So sorry everyone to ask things like this all the time.

I am soon to have results of tests but want to know if anyone else has this:

I feel like I'm shallow breathing and need to stretch out a section of my mid back to take a proper breath. I try to adjust my posture in a chair to do this. Deep breathing tends to hurt - i feel a dull restrictive pain on my lungs when i take a deep breath.

Also, I have bloating and sometimes feel like i am holding my self in such a way that I hold my belly in from stopping me looking like I have a big belly (this sounds nonsensical when I'm typing it- but this is how it feels), as if this poor posture is causing my back pain, when I correct this it doesn't really go away just shifts the pain for a while. There is also a general feeling of my torso, or ab muscles or back muscles being too weak to hold me up properly - and of course pain up and down my back.

When I take NSAID for this to test if it helps I most of the time get a pulsing feeling in the areas of the pain for the first 24 to 48 hours after I start taking them as if healing is going on or as if blood is getting to the pain spots. I need to carry on taking for longer but I am slightly scared to load up on pills right now. Also I notice that NSAID sometimes work quick and really effective at relieving pain and other times find they hardly touch it.

Also, finally (sorry to go on), but at times I feel my pains are directly related to the stress I have with work etc, and that at times it is like a vicious cycle where stress causes pain then the pain causes more stress and a low mood and so on.

Anyone else able to relate to all or any of this?

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