LONG TERM CHEST PAIN
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I’m a 19 year old female. From as long as I can remember I’ve suffered with chest pain. My mother’s tells me I first spoke of it in year 5/6 so I would have been about 10 and 11. Then I remember having it all through senior school, college and still to this present day. The pain can vary from mild to really severe, it’ll either start twinging, or start full on power from nowhere. It can range from a throbbing to a dull ache to a stabbing pain. It sends a numb feeling down my left arm sometimes. My jaw becomes tingly as if I’ve placed a sour sweet in my mouth (rarely happens). I’ll also sometimes feel the pain on the left side of my back, behind my shoulder. An “attack” can be between 1 minute to hours long. My mood changes, I’m crippled over, I can hardly talk, can’t function. I basically turn into a moody b*tch. However, the pain can be present for a week then disappear for a few months then again and again. I can’t count on my fingers how many times I’ve been to A&E, my GP and to the Cardiology department and it’s been brushed off as indigestion or anxiety. No medication works, not even pain relief. Nothing specific brings the pain on, I could be shopping or laying in bed. I can’t tell you the frustration that I deal with on a daily basis knowing that nobody understands the excruciating pain I’m dealing with. It literally feels like I’m dying. I wouldn’t wish it upon anyone.
I need answers 
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tina71696 sinead_65754
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Stompa69 sinead_65754
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Hi, what you describe is exactly what I have it started when i was around 13years old. I am a male almost 50years old now. unfortunately still not found anything conclusive of what it is. It had gone for a longtime but has returned again the last few years. it never really bothered me before but now I am getting older it scares me a little.
i workout at the gym 5 days a week trying to stay healthy. One thing is with my pain is if I run it gets worse so I don't do that. and sometimes with a really heavy workout at the gym, i just have to go sleep afterwards and can't do anything. I wish someone could come up with an explanation and cure!
reg1945 sinead_65754
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Ahh long term pain in your teens is horrible, I really simpathise. In my teens, I contracted severe lung damage, and ended up with major surgery to remove the pleura and lower lung lobe, to do this a massive entry wound with purposeful broken ribs, later wired together. In doing this, the surgeons damaged intercostal nerves resulting in a lifetime of pain and numbness, in 73 now and still kicking, still working because I learned to live with discomfort, so, the reason for this narrative is to discover whether you have a nerve damage problem because your simptoms mirror mine. This is not to say that you will endure a lifetime of what ails you. Remember my case started 60 years ago in the dark ages of medicine, and today there are marvelous means of addressing all kinds of body malfunctions, sadly in today's world the pressures on the health service sometimes doesn't allow for the kind of treatment value we would all want, therefore we have to look to ourselves once serious medical issues have been ruled out, and simply live with it or get sick of asking for intervention.