Ever since I can remember I used to always get these random chest pains from time to time, out of nowhere. It wouldn’t happen often, but when it did I was always worried it was something with the heart. It felt like something was stuck or that a bubble was there that needed to burst. It was always on my left side hence why I thought the heart. Deep breathes would be painful and so I would do quick ones and try to expand the area. Usually after 5 minutes or so it would disappear.
Last night I woke up with the same problem, only this time it was for 30 minutes and still the pain wasn’t going away. I got up and tried walking around, but I really had pain breathing. I checked online and found a few articles that seemed to match what I was experiencing. The possible name is Precordial Catch Syndrome, the symptoms were near exact:
“Do you ever get a piercing pain in your chest, usually on your left side under your rib, which almost feels like a bubble ready to burst?”
“PCS episodes happen most often while sitting or lying down, and being inactive.”
Anyhow, I decided to do some light movement, like walking on the spot, knees up with proper breathing and sure enough after 1 minute the pain went away.
For more information try these:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precordial_catch_syndrome
- http://www.failedsuccess.com/index.php?/weblog/comments/precordial_catch_syndrome_chest_pain/
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January 28th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Ohh woaa.. I also get that once in a while. But it only started happening like 2 years ago. I was also very concerned that it was something related to the heart. I don’t remember which side I got it on, but I was really scared, so one day I went to the hospital after repeated episodes on the same week. After ER diagnose me they send me to a stress test, and all the results came back as normal as it is for a young guy like me . I concluded it must had been muscular pain, like a sore muscle. But now I think it is more related to stress. I will read on your article to find out about precordial_catch_syndrome.