Chest shocks/stings

[Sankie]

Hello,

I am 23 years old male, I work alot on computers but I do sport every week (swimming). I've had chronic running nose since I was little. I smoked tabacco for 2 years but recently stopped (3 months now) after the following occured:

3 months ago I was laying in my bed after I got home from a cold drive on my scooter, before bed I had one smoke and there was a bit of second-hand smoke in my room. I made a sudden movement with my neck and my ear popped loudly on the inside, followed by a beep. Not shortly after a warm wave went trough my body and my legs started shaking, I got really short on breath and had to take a big stool (harder then usual) and sit up for 1 hour before it passed. It felt like a seizure or some kind, which overtook my entire body. It was such a scary experience that it made me change my life pattern.

The day after I had no hunger, the ringing was still present in the ears and I was overwhelmed with anxiety I never had. After a week or two the ringing in the ears became less frequent, it appeared to be an ear infection according to the docter. The anxiety dropped when I started adding magnesium to my diet. I decided to stop smoking, eat healthy and excercise more from this point on.

However, 2 weeks after this incident I went swimming. During the swimming a sharp pain occured in my upper left chest which did not drop up until 3 hours. It hurted more when I took deep breaths. Ever since I've reduced exercise, becuase the docter said I might have strained a nerve. Nonetheless weeks after I have been having shocks/stings in my: left chest, below the rib/right chest, below the rib/lower right back/neck. I also have random ackes/tinglings in my arm. Sometimes I wake up with musclepain between the ribs, as if I worked out too extendedly. These stings/shocks mostly appear during the evening, after eating and when I have alot of gas. I have two varieties of stings/shocks. One hurts severly: It feels like a taser going off inside my body for just a split second. It can occur a few times in a row. The other hurts less but appears in a pulsating form, a irritating sting that stays on the same spot. They appear every day. I try not to worry about it but they strike at random times and mostly occur at least once aroound 11 o' clock in the evening. I've also had less energy, a dry mouth, pressure on the ears, tingling in the teeth. This never occured before the above incident.

I have no idea what it could be, and if what my docter said was true, the nerve would've healed up? I've been having these pains for a while and it's really making my life hard.

[Sankie]

Thank you Dr Vinod, I will take on your advice!

[Dr Vinod]

Your primary case is not related to any problem. Your quitting smoking is always good. You had an ear infection. After that while swimming you develped some chest infection/injury to your muscles, ligaments in the chest which is causing pain. As any small injury here, you do not get rest as the whole chest moves with inspiration and expiration. Stop worrying and go to a chest specialist and have an X-ray done. If everything comes fine, continue not smoking, eat healthy food, take enough rest and lead a stress less life. Take care!