shortness of breath/chest tightness with no other symptoms

[babymonkey]

I am a perfectly healthy, athletic 30-yr. old female who for the past week has been experiencing difficulty breathing with a tightness in my left upper chest.  I struggle to get a deep breath and sometimes have to yawn to do so.  If I thought about it enough and panicked, I could hypervetalate trying to catch my breath.  The only relief I get is when laying down to sleep or rest.  This started out of nowhere.  At first I suspected allergies--don't have a problem, but had spent the weekend outdoors and had kicked around some hay (literally) which I felt may have irritated my throat/chest.  Two days ago had a chest x-ray and EKG.  Doc sent me away like I was crazy telling me that it was probably stress or anxiety (even though I told him I didn't feel stressed or anxious) and to take a xanax and I would be better in a couple of days.  Any thoughts?  If it's nothing, great!  But I have tried to 'think my way out of it' and have ahd plenty of rest humoring the idea that it is stress.  Could a chest x-ray miss something like pleurisy or something else that might not show-up on an x-ray?

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[Ellsbellz]

P.s I also want to be a nurse/doctor when I'm older so i'm interested to learn...

[Ellsbellz]

I am 15 years old. When I was 13 I was diagnosed with slight athsma, but medication didn't work and if anything made it worse so I scrapped it! I get a feeling like I'm not getting enough oxygen in and I need to take a deep breathe but when I do it's hard, Sonia try to yawn which occasionally helps but not always. Also, I sometime feel a sharp pain when I try to breathe in, then if I persist and just keep breathing in it kind of bursts and I'm relieved. HELP ME!! everyone just thinks i'm crazy and want attention!!

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[Rikkiroo]

I have the same symptoms, harder to breathe, stiffness in the neck, tightness in the chest but it only happens when I'm at my nans house at first I thought it must be her perfume but IV never reacted like this when in her old house and my eyebrow twitches alot and I get pins and needles very easily but that's when i noticed I know from my own experience that if I lean on my leg I'll get pins and needles in my foot and then it goes away quickly when I stand on it, so that's stoppin some of the blood flowing to that part of the body so it reacts with pins and needles it comes if you keep your arm in the air and the blood goes slower up the arm because the heart is pumping against gravity so that hand isn't getting its normal rate supply of oxygen like if your in hospital giving birth they let you breath a can of pure oxygen which boosts muscle reactions and they can hold out for longer, so maybe the muscles in your neck are lackin oxygen, because your neck is always in use to keep your head upright and its the biggest muscle in your head and neck so its facing gravity and the lack of oxygen so its aching tellin you to rest that muscle to give it more oxygen, so I found that it could be your lackin oxygen or you have bad circulation from not movin very often put that can only be very common to lazy, obese and people with organ problems, if you think its lack of oxygen try breathing more of the outdoor air and that doesn't mean opening one window because if its not that breezy the air circles around that window if you open a window like at one end of the house and at the other end you let it flow though. I'll give you example why if you blow on a bottle that already has air inside and you put your mouth over the open top and blow none of your air can enter but if u pierce the bottom the air in the bottle escapes and the fresh air goes though the bottle too that's saying you blowin is the fresh air..
Right if you try to keep the air flowing though for some time it should help for some cases..

Hope this helped

[zanezzz]

I recently been told by my doctor I have   tietze's syndrome as I have many of the symptoms.