Long term, unexplained chest pain

I'm 22 and currently awake at 4am because of this chest pain. It's also on my left side and comes on and off but it's worse than it's ever been tonight. I've had a cough for over a month now that could be straining to my chest aswel. I'm not sure why to do about the pain it's been pretty consistent for a while now

Considering your pain wasn't life threatening and ur still alive (hence, ur post was 3 years ago) this is what I believe.

Your diet.... Stay with me here. I too had similar pain; as if a rib was stabbing me in the lung.... My Aunt (retired Nurse Lt. Col. Army) told me it sounded like a kink in my intestines and that the moving around subsided the pain cuz it assisted with pushing it around the corner, or kink.

So, is ur poop soft or hard... Don't tell me but check it out.

   Hey ji86,

    I too am having the same issues as the others on this discussion. Mysterious chest pains mostly stemming from a constant dull irratation on my lower left side of my rib cage. Its been going on for almost 6 months now and still no answers, doctors can't seem to figure it out. ive had blood work, chest xray, blood pressure, my vitals were checked, massage therapy, physiotherapy, acupuncture, and nothing has helped yet. Im stressed, miserable, and my daily life has taken a massive hit. Please anyone help me to figure this out. I am a fit healthy 27 year old guy.

I am actually having he almost same thing except it's all the way down to my fingers at times like a tingle not hard to breath or very painful but have noticed it sends me into a panic attack I suffer from ptsd and panic disorder also so every time I get an ekg or blood work to see if it's a heart attack they all calm back good I'm also in pretty good shape and work as an iron worker so no sit on the butt job here I would also like to know what it could possibly be

After two years of same symptoms and being told it could be , tieze syndrome, c.o.p.d , fibro,muskular or gerd i was still no closer to getting answers i was looking for. been to a@e a few times xray and ecg all normal however bloods always show sign of infection,high white blood count,low anti inflammatory cells and most recently low oxegen levels always same answer off hospital good news nothing serious going on bad news they havnt a clue what it is i also suffer panic and anxiety attacks and was so convinced that seems nothing serious going on it must all be in my head so took the anti deppresent my docs had been trying to force on me for two years a few days in i had the worst attack of chest pain ever again went to a@e again same story nothing serious went back to docs and was given diazapam 5mg and told to take only when chest and anxiety was at it worst took them for four days and i can honestly say it was the best thing i could have done the first day i took one i could feel all the muscles in my body start to relax for the first time in two years i actually slept alnight and woke up feeling better than i ever had by day four i completly felt like my old self docs told me that cos i had been worried about my health for so long my muscles were never allowed to relax there for my stress levels were so high every little pain i was getting my body would go straight in to defence mod and even the smallest pain the brain would normally pass off as minor was hightened i felt great for a few weeks after taking them but then pains in chest pins and needles and headaches all came back went back to docs to ask for somemore diazapam and was told i couldnt have them cos of addiction risk so im now back to square one anxiety back with a vengence as my body is now back on high alert for next attack and now the only question i have is was it all in my head or is there a health problem ?

Hello my name is ronnie . Was curious if you found out anything .... I to for the past month or two been having sharp burning pains in my left chest area that radiating to my left back shoulder blade . So bad it gives me a panic attack ... I take Celexa every day but it seems to help ... here lately I been having a lot of right side neck pain and stiffness ... but the left side of my chest and back shoulder always hurts . Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and pain and my left arm is numb and tingling . I have had all kinds of ekg and stress test and blood drawn and chest X-rays . I have gallstones and acid reflux so I not sure if that’s the cause of any of it . Would like to know your thought on it . Thanks

I have something similar wirth the difference that mine doesn't move all over the place. Most always on the l;eft side with the odd occasion it migrates to the right side of the sternum. 98% of the time it is to the left. My family has so much lung cancer on my dad's side (dad, 2 uncles and grandfather). All fairly heavy smokers in their younger years. I am not. So I brought it to the attention of my doctor. X-rays, ECG, blood tests all showed nothing so she suggested that it was cosotchondritis. Deep inhalations is when I feel it the most. I am quite active in a racquet sport and like to ride my bike so there is a lot of movement and exertion. I was still a little fearful of it being lung cancer and got my doctor to set me up with a respiratory specialist and went through pulminary function testing and more blood tests. She got me an appointment to have a cat scan done...mostly to give me some peace of mind. Long story, after doing some research on cat scans, and then getting another opinion from a different doctor about my "condition" I came to the conclusion that I would not have the cat scan done so as not to be blasted with much higher doses of radiation (a known cancer increaser). Especially considering all of the symptoms sounded like this cosotchondritis. I have had this pain in my left side for about 6 months now. Had it been cancer doctors say the signs would be much greatrer that just this chestpain. Mine hasn't gotten any worse ober that period of time...it's just not going away. So now, I just live with it and carry on with my life. I hope your condition has improved or at least not gotten worse.