I’ve been having these pains since I was in middle school. When I’m in shape(like through sports) they get better but has always hurted when I ran, just not as much. It’s like the longer I run the worse the pain gets. I niether smoke or drink as well. For some reason, I can’t seem to convince my doctor that it’s serious.
So is he wrong or am I wrong.
Also, I went to my family doctor and told him about it twice. He said it could be heaart burn and he suggested that I cut down on drinking milk. He was wrong and he says don’t worry about it but it’s not like it’s mild pain, it hurts right in the middle of my chest and feels like I got punched there or something.
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Babe, it’s just like going to a lawyer….don’t go to just one or two and think you got the exact and only answer.
Go to another physician, until you feel like you are being LISTENED to.
My first recommendation would be go to a different doctor. If it truly hurts that bad, it is serious. You should have never had to try to convince someone. Thats waisting your time. Go to a doctor that cares.
Go to a cardiologist or internist. They need to check to make sure it is not serious.
Pain is your body’s way of telling you there is something wrong. If it only happens when you exert yourself that says one thing, it could be a heart problem (you could get an image taken of your heart with an “electron beam tomography (EBT) scanner” – unfortunately most health care plans don’t cover this). If the pain is due to just inhaling deeply it could be a muscular-skeleto problem (like a muscle wrapped around the rib the wrong way).
Heart burn is very specific. It is in your stomach and esophogus. Most people have felt it before. Unfortunately I suffer from GERD so I am all too familiar with it, and while debilitating at times it will linger until you take heart burn medicine, so if heart burn medicine like pepcid or gaviscon don’t work at least a little on that pain I think it is safe to say you don’t have heart burn. Either way like others have said, try another general practitioner, if you still can’t figure it out I would try specialists, ie cardiologist or osteopath. If you are adventurous or these people can’t help, try an accupuncturist since they have a good understanding of nerve connections, or even a chiropracter, you may even have a pinched nerve in your back and the chest pain is a referred pain.
I would say go to a cardiologist and get some tests run. In the meantime I wouldn’t run. Walk instead. It is good exercise but easier on the body.
Go run harder & see if you collapse, that way a real doctor might be able to diagnose you with something.