Every sense i had my son, who is 18 months old now. I have had upper discomfort in my chest around my ribs and really it kinda feels like maybe in my lungs. I though at first that i might of pulled a muscle somewhere in there so i went to the doctor and they told me nothing was wrong with me... Well it didn't go away so i went to one hospital which they said the same thing, so i have literally went to every hospital within a 45 min drive, all together i have had blood drawn which they said they tested for blood clots, i've had 3 ekg's and they said my heart was fine, i have had x rays on my lungs and they said there was nothing wrong with them either and eventually said that it was anxiety so they put me on medication for that well the discomfort has never went away so i stoped taking the med's and now i think that there just over looking something because i'm young... I'm only 21... What does anyone think is wrong with me?
2006-11-21 15:21:12 · 4 answers · asked by Ash 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
Hi Ash. Please consider seeing your family Chiropractor. You may have a spinal subluxation, a rib fixation, myofascial triggerpoints, a hiatal hernia, or lots of other things that Chiropractors are able to diagnose and correct.
Best wishes and good luck.
2006-11-21 16:12:59 · answer #1 · answered by Doctor J 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am sorry you are in such discomfort, especially when you have a new baby. I wish I knew what was wrong, I would only be guessing. What I can tell you is to keep bugging the doctors, because sometimes things just take alot of time to be discovered. I am wondering if you pulled a muscle while giving birth, since that is when it first started. At least the doctors have ruled out some serious problems.I don't think a pulled muscle or pinch nerve would show on an xray. Keep taking the meds. because when in pain it sometimes takes a bit more time to bring the pain down. Take your meds as prescribed, even if you do not have the pain. The idea is to prevent it from returning. If you only take pain med. when the pain gets bad then your pain level is high, and requires more med. I work with elderly people who suffer from arthritis and they take their meds. on time not according to the amount of pain at any given moment.
2006-11-22 01:28:45 · answer #2 · answered by angel 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I am a medical student and this is the bits i know about medicine:
'The patients concerns may not be the real issue, but they may give you a direction to explore!'
Your concerned about the chest. Any physician would start to explore the possible causes of the chest discomroft and normally these originate from the gastrointestinal system (your esophagus or food pipe, stomach, intestines, pancrease and liver), the cardiovascular system (your heart and blood vessels) and the repiratory system (your wind pipes, lungs). From questioning and allowing you to express all of your symptoms (we call it 'history taking') and looking for other sympotms and signs that you may miss, a physician can accurately point to the system affected and actually come up with a diagnosis.
Examination is a key point to coming up with a working diagnosis and investigations just confirm the diagnosis. For you all the main examinations have been done, chest x-ray would have revealed any problems in the lungs or heart.
2006-11-21 22:42:33 · answer #3 · answered by bingwaz_online 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all, I am not a doctor and can not give medical advise. I just have some suggestions to consider.
Did you doctors consider that you have a hernia? Did you suffer from a sour stomach or acid stomach during your pregnacy? It is possible that your esophagus is herniated (sp?). This can cause chest and upper back pain. It can be treated with meds or may require surgery to correct.
You may also have a strained or hernia of the diaphram from over extending yourself during pregnacy or delivery.
You may also have a lung infection (pleurisy). Not pneumonia but a low grade lung (persistent) infection. Sometimes stays with you after a case of pneumonia.
2006-11-21 15:35:35 · answer #4 · answered by lostlatinlover 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not a doctor, but it sounds like something I had a while ago - are you hyperventilating, perhaps? I was doing that and I ended up tensing up a lot of stuff and I had these pains that were annoying in my chest - but never quite serious enough to lay down. Just uncomfortable and unnerving.
By the way, you are smart to have seen the doctor.
2006-11-21 15:27:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋