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I've just got back from Preston hospital. I was rushed there this morning at about 10am due to severe chest pains, back pains and shortness of breath. I've had 4 blood tests, 2 X-rays, 2 ECG's and a ton of tablets and oxygen. It's not my heart which is a relief, but I found out that I have damaged cartilage in my chest and traces of fluid on my chest and lungs.

I had woken up at about 6am and immediately realised that my chest and back were killing me. I just thought I had slept funny and was stiff because I had been totally fine the day before, so I still got ready and trudged off to work (albeit in a lot of pain) thinking it would wear off. It didn't. It got worse around 9.30 and everyone thought I was having a heart attack, which prompted my colleagues to call the paramedics. The doctor who dealt with me at the hospital says that I may have to rest for up to 3-4 weeks, plus he's given me a load of anti-inflammatory medicine and told me that if I start coughing anything up or my breathing worsens I must call the emergency services immediately. It hurts to talk, walk and take breaths...

Anyone else ever had this before??

Not me, but I am sorry to hear about your pain.  Strong wishes from the other side of an ocean for your speedy recovery.  Thank goodness it is not your heart. 

We love you, you know, and need you around. 

Holy crap, that sucks!  Hope you can convalesce properly.  I have never been the prone person in an ambulance (I've ridden with someone before).  Best of luck to your hopefully improving health; my thoughts are with you.

I feel so bad for you, Circus.  :bluesad:  Have you been coughing? It almost sounds like pneumonia.  Rest ...  take whatever meds the doctor prescribed for you.  Feel better soon ...

Thanks for the well wishes guys. No, no coughing Silverlady. I did have to sneeze before unfortunately and it felt like someone was trying to yank my ribcage out with a claw hammer.

So sorry to hear that Circus!  Rest up and get well.  Hope those med's do the job.

Sorry to hear about that Circus. Get well soon!

Get well soon, my good man.

Wow, sorry to hear that.  I wonder how your cartilage got damaged?  Get better and spend your bed time catching up on bad movies!

Sorry to here about that Circus. Get some good rest and get well soon!  :thumbup:

I have no idea. The doctor and nurses where a bit baffled. They said it happens, but it's quite rare. I kept getting asked all sorts of zany questions about my everyday activities and I told them over and over, "I don't do this....and I don't do that" and that I was "just sleeping". Since I took some more tablets before, the pain in my back seem to have subsided but the pain my chest has spread across my whole chest from the right side and is still agonisingly assiduous.

Sorry to hear that, man. However, I'm glad you're okay. :thumbup:

Dam. That sucks. I hope you get better soon,my freind.

Maybe those pricks from earlier came back and jumped on your chest while you were sleeping.  :buggedout:

3 to 4 weeks is a lot of time to catch up on some bad movies!

I thought the same as dean, except, I'm thinking your tussle could have perhaps caused the injury.  Sometimes things take awhile to hurt...

Sorry to hear that, hope you recover quickly!

Wow! That's scary  :buggedout: . Hope you feel better. Must have been frightening stuff. Around January last year I had a similar fright but unlike you, I did not experience chest or back pain but I felt generally lousy and went to the hospital just to see the doctor on call. I ended up fainting in the waiting room. Apparently my temperature had shot right up. I really thought I might be going to die I felt so sick but it turned out I had pneumonia on my chest. I ended up spending the night in the hospital after they discovered I had some chest aberrations and they were worried at the time it might be my heart. In reality I was suffering from a severe acid reflux buildup and I had pneumonia which later became full blown. It was one of the sickest times I've ever been in my life. The medication the doctor gave me basically made me vomit up on the stuff on my chest every morning for about a week but I felt better after that. Anyways your situation sounds different than mine but that stuff really makes you think and reflect and be thankful to still be here and want to work more towards staying here longer.

get better Circus

Aw, that sounds terrible. Take it easy until you and the doctors are sure that everything's healed, okay?

All the best to you, Circus: hope all goes well.  :smile:

Sorry to hear you're not well. Rest, take it easy, put on your bright pink Forever Lazy jumper, and try not to get into any fights.  :smile:

This reminds me of when I had my heart surgery. I had just showered and was getting ready to go to church when I felt serious pain in the right side of my jaw and shoulder. I too decided that I'd slept wrong and tried to ignore it. Well,something in the back of my head told me to go to the hospital so I did. Turns out it was a minor heart attack and they shipped me down to Waco for a test....I had 5 bypasses done two days later. I sure didn't see it coming but I'm glad it was one of those small "wake up,stupid!" attacks and not the major one they said wouldn't have been too far away.

What I have is called Costochondritis. Just been reading up about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costochondritis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costochondritis)

When that happened to me it was a result of doing pectoral flys with too much weight; and it was avoidable if I had just used some common sense.

The pain went on for a few months, and in the first few weeks of it happening it sometimes hurt to drive. The best thing for it was keeping ice on it.

I don't know if you have experienced this with your's, but I could hear and feel my heartbeats more pronounced, much more, and it made it quite difficult at times to get to sleep.

Unfortunately a chest injury as such pretty much has to take its own time in healing; you can't immobilize the chest, put a cast on it or anything like that.

Be careful with the anti-inflammatory medicine. It certainly is going to help, but always, always take it with food, and not just a snack.

NSAIDs can cause stomach bleeding, as they did with me with my recent shoulder injury. Even though I took them when I had something to eat, they still got me and in addition to the shoulder injury I'm having to take medicine for my stomach.

Just make certain you eat and eat well when you take them.

Yikes, sounds painful.  Hope your recovery goes well!

Thanks Menard, I will. I was a bit bit wary about taking them anyway initially, because I do always seem to suffer from side-effects of medication quite easily. It does just feel like my heart is beating really hard against my chest and my whole ribcage seems to ache when I breathe. I did sleep better last night, than the night before though.