Any doctors out there? Slight Chest Pain.?

Question

I have a slight pain in my chest around my 3rd rib up from the bottom and a little to the left. It's the kind of pain you get you swallow something and it gets stuck on the way down (particularly Icecream). It also is on the right a bit but it feels like a cramp in the muscle from my armpit.

I'm not sure what exactly what could cause this. Everything I've eaten in the last few weeks is Cholesterol free. And I've been active painting in my basement, maybe it is the drywall dust but I were a mask when I sand.

Anyone have any idea what this could be and what to do?? (Doctors preferred)

**If it is important. I have exercise induced asthma. (about 5 laps around a basketball court will start me panting.)

Answer 1

According to your description, your pain is in the upper chest at the lower edge of the rib and is dull in nature (not sharp pain). I highly suspected that it is a "costal neuritis" ( inflammation of the rib nerve). It probably caused by over-stretching of your arm during painting. If your pain aggravated by deep breathing, moving up your arm or coughing then it supports my suspicion. You can use Vick's cream rubbing on the area to decrease the pain. Of course if the pain became more sever or accompanied with other symptom, such as difficulty of breathing, fever, you need to see a doctor, not matter where you live.

Answer 2

Honey, doctors get paid for answering questions, I highly doubt you will get one to answer you here.  Let me say, I think your issue is not in any way related to your heart, it is likely pressure from intestinal gas pressing up against your diaphragm causing displacement into your chest cavity.  Try drinking some peppermint herbal tea to alleviate the gas, and things should improve.  Of course, if it doesn't help, then call your own doctor and seek his paid advice.

Answer 3

That is exactly where your stomach is located.

You're stomach might be inflamed from a virus, or if the pain is severe, there could be something stuck in it (although not very likely)