If your doctors have looked carefully and have found no evidence of heart, lung or large blood vessel disease, then the likely explanation is that you have what we call Chest Wall Pain. That is, chest pain that originates in the bones, muscles or nerves of the chest. A common cause is an undiagnosed rib fracture or separation of rib-cartilage from its attachment to the breastbone in the middle of the chest. If that is the case, the use of anti-inflammatory drugs, such as Advil
Try looking up the words chest wall syndrome, costosternal syndrome, costosternal chondrodynia -- Also try looking in the Tietze syndrome literature for information about costochondritis. For example in the material I have about costochondrondrits it denotes that the anterior chest pain simulates cardiac pain and causes great concern to the patient and confuses the clinician. I do know costochondritis hurts a great deal and it can be chronic and have recurrent acute episodes. Let us know what the doctors finally diagnosis your pain to be.
Could you possibly have Costochondritis - Chest wall syndrome?
Costochondritis is chest wall inflammation. Similar to Teitze Syndrome but a little different. I have learned that Costochondritis can be acute and chronic. There is a forum in the clubs under Yahoo on Costochondritis.
i have never heard of that. can you tell me more about it?