Long term chestpain/ left shoulder blade pain

It's been very interesting reading this thread. For 9 months I have been getting a sort of numbing stich-like pain in my chest that radiates out to my neck, shoulder and arm. It would come on typically in the morning on waking, go away suddenly after a few minutes, but come back in waves for an hour or so. Long story short, I have seen 4 different GP's, 2 gastroenterologists, a cardiologist, and a chest 'expert'. I have had a angiogram (my arteries are fine), and endoscopy (nothing showed up), 3 CT scans, and a test of my lung capacity. I have been put on 6 different medications. The pains keep coming, but now often start deep inside my shoulder like a badly trapped nerve, and then quickly spread to the centre of my chest. Sometimes they are mild and go away quickly. Sometimes (like last night) they last 20-30 minutes and have me writhing around in pain. One of the CT scans picked up a nodule on my lung and I am having a CT scan for that tomorrow, and I assume that will look at my chest area as well. A return visit to the cardiologist resulted in my going on tablets for microvascular angina - that was about 2-3 weeks ago and they do not seem to have made any difference. During these 'attacks' my heart beats hard but not particularly fast and totally evenly. My bp goes up but comes down again once the pain stops. This is driving me crazy and badly affecting my life, and it's difficult to understand why something that is so powerful, well-defined and painful does not have an obvious cause. 

I have been having the same problems. A dull kind of constant pain below my left arm shoulder which dont respond to pain meds and anything. Also I feel like I am always out of my breath and a little pressure gives and a high bp which becomes normal afterwards. My quality of life has been so low after this. Visted heart specialist and many more but they dnt find anything wrong with me. Also deep breathing help temporarily .. kindly update if you found any cure or reason. Also pigeon pose in yoga gives little relief

So Much in this thread is so accurate to what I have been going through for the past 7 months. I am 27 year old man. Around 7 months ago I was sitting at home after a hard days work lifting heavy steel and randomly had severe shooting pains on the left side of my chest which felt like my heart, up my left arm and in the left side of my jaw. I thought I was having a heart attack and panicked and collapsed. Ended up in hospital had an EKG/ECG (uk) and blood tests and all came back fine. I was told I had muscular pain In my chest from heavy lifting at work earlier that day and had a panic attack as a result of this thinking I was having a heart attack. The pain continued severely for around 3-4 months after, having severe shooting pains in my chest that would come and go sometimes everyday, sometimes every few days for periods that would last 20 mins up to a few hours at times followed by bad panic attacks because I believed I was having a heart attack. In between the shooting pain attacks I would have a constant dull aching pain and tightness around my heart which would always be there constantly and random palpatations and flutters that felt lile it was coming directly from my heart. which would trigger panic attacks every now and then. I've had so many visits to A and E every time I would have these attacks only to have the same tests and be told everything with my heart was fine. After numerous visits to my GP I was first told it was muscular pain from the strain of my job. A few months after that my GP told me they had ruled out muscular pain as it was getting worse and told it was acid reflux. After being prescribed pills for this with no results a few months later I have been told I'm suffering from anxiety chest pains and panic disorder which makes no sense to me at all as this came on so sudden one day and just hasn't left me. The day it started i had just come back from a relaxing holiday the day before. I have also tried to explain that I don't believe it can be anxiety as I can have these random attacks at times when I feel really happy and it would just attack me. My GP response to this is "that could happen with panic disorder" and she's convinced I'm just stressed and anxious and if it was my heart I would have had a heart attack by now. This has completely taken over my life I feel like I can never do normal things I've had so much time off work and I feel like this is either never gonna leave me or im going to just drop dead one day. no matter how many times I have had these attacks over the past 7 months I still haven't got used to them and they are still terrifying. I thought they was getting much better over the past few months and not as regular but the last few weeks they seem to be coming back stronger and more frequent again. I have given up going to A and E and my GP to be told the same thing over and over and this is what I have resulted to searching the internet for hours every night for answers.

Vanessa, your post described my situation exactly. When I got to the part about always trying to get a deep breath, I knew I had finally found someone with the same issues as me. What ended up happening? Are you still struggling with this? You said you were having your gallbladder checked. It would be so helpful if you could let me know how you're doing and what they found. It's been MONTHS of this for me, and my doctor hasn't got a clue what's wrong with me.