Physically Suffering Young Adult

[Laurenjy11]

I have been having symptoms for the last month and a half. One morning I just woke up with really bad chest pain. It started with the feeling like I had broken my sternum. I do not remember falling or any activity that could have caused a broken bone. As time went on I started to realize that this pain could not be a broken bone. I think I didnt want to realize that I was truely having chest pains. It hurts when I breath and lay certain ways. I can only lay on my back when I cough sneeze and any sudden movements can send a sharp excruciating pain through my chest. Also I am only 100 pounds and I am 5' 8" I have always been a skinny person but I look close to a skeleton now. Today my nose started to bleed for no reason and a large chunk came out which obviously was a blood clot. I am very scared that there is something seriously wrong with me because I previously before all this started went to see numerous physicians about my horrible abdominal pain to no avail and no answers just bad blood work and recommendation to get a camera tube stuck down my throat or an exploratory incisions procedure. Please help does anybody have any ideas of what might be going on in my body. I am so un healthy I cant gain weight and I have pain all the time wether chest abdomin or other symptoms like headaches or nose bleeds. Please help.

Lauren

[randompsi]

That is really complex.
1. definitely a bugblotch-afflicted problem mixed with poor diet and exercise and rest
2. it may also be DNA or something to do with the poisonous environment.
Cures
1. wear jewels like Calcite and amber to help the system yanking out the bug
2. rest more and stay away from compound that cause small stress
3. exercise walking motion. It always help somehow.

[pewterpony]

Hi Lauren -

Just a thought:  when I was in my early twenties I experienced severe chest pain of the kind you are describing for many weeks.  The first time I experienced it I woke up in the middle of the night with a white-hot pain shooting through my chest.  I couldn't breathe normally, but could only gasp for tiny amounts of air.  I was very scared - didn't know if I was having a heart attack or what.  After a few minutes the pain started to ease up, and eventually I was able to lie back down and sleep.  But the next morning my chest hurt as though I'd been in a car accident, and the shooting pains would start again a couple of times every hour.  I couldn't laugh, sneeze, turn to the side, bend over, or breathe deeply.  I saw my doctor that day and she diagnosed me with a pulled intercostal muscle - the muscles between your ribs.  It was the most severe chest pain I've ever felt, and it took about 6 weeks to fully clear up.  It doesn't explain the other symptoms you've been having, but I wonder if maybe you've got more than one thing going on at once.

Good luck and take care!

[Dr. Kokil Mathur]

Hi
Welcome to the MedHelp forum!
The symptoms could be exacerbation of the GERD or gastric reflux.  It could also be hiatal hernia. Treatment is a combination of drugs to reduce the acid and lifestyle changes. You will need to take a combination of medications (under medical supervision) like a proton pump inhibitor such as omeprazole, lansoprazole or pantoprazole empty stomach in the morning and an antacid gel after meals for complete relief. Possibility of H pylori infection too should be looked into by a carbon urea breath test and a combination antibiotic tried. Many a times a persisting H pylori infection can be the cause behind acidity not responding to treatment.
Life style changes that will help include: Avoid heavy meals and eat frequent small meals. Avoid too much of caffeine, tea, smoking, fried food and drinks both alcoholic and non alcoholic fuzzy ones. Avoid heavy exercises within 4 hours of a heavy meal. Raise the head end of the bed by pillows to 30 degrees. Avoid lying down for least 2 hours after food. Maybe these tips will help you.
If these tips do not help, then liver function test, pancreatic enzymes, and HIDA scan for gall bladder should be done. Food intolerance and inflammatory bowel conditions such as IBS, Crohn’s, celiac etc should be considered. Log in what you eat and see if there is a correlation between a certain food type and the symptoms.
You should consult a gastroenterologist (a specialist who looks after the diseases of our digestive system) or a physician for this.
Chest pain aggravated by laughing yawning, moving in certain directions, stretching and deep breathing goes more in favor of costochondritis, which causes pain and tenderness at points where your ribs attach to your breastbone.  The inflammation around the joint area gives sharp pain on taking a breath. This can also cause tenderness on pressing the area which pains. An orthopedic doctor can diagnose this for you. Generally there is no cause. However it can be due to infection, blow, injury, or fibromyalgia. It usually goes away on its own. Otherwise it can be treated with muscle relaxants, and non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs. It can also be muscle pull. Shingles can also start this way.
Pleuritis and Pulmonary embolism are other possibilities causing shortness of breath with chest pain. A CT scan of the chest can rule out both. Another possibility that can explain the pain is pericarditis. It causes chest pain aggravated by laughing yawning and deep breathing and also causes radiation of pain to arms. Again an EKG, heat echo and chest X-ray is required.
Do discuss this with your doctor and get yourself examined as a confirmed diagnosis is not possible on net. Take care!