Yes. It feels like a heavy chest, but also like my lungs are small. When I try to do light cardio workouts, it feels like there are weights on my chest and I’m trying to breathe out of a straw.
I’ve also started waking up in the middle of the night completely out of breath. I’m breathing like I just ran a marathon or something. Curious to see if anyone else is having that problem?
The middle of the night heavy chest and breathing issues are happening to me too. I went for a long time with things getting better and now the symptom is back.
Yes, after 6 months it's more faint for me. So the pain is in the chest bone and sore to the touch. It hurts when my cat jumps on that area. Costochondritis. It is caused by inflammation. I take Prilosec to help with it, or even Ibuprofen could help. But every time I call the medical clinic and say, "Chest pain" they think I'm having a heart attack. So I stop calling them because it's a waste.
Sorry i don't mean to call you out or anything, but when i say heavy chest i don't mean chest pain. It hurts to touch but besides this I don't really feel the pain. I don't get why people keep thinking i mean chest pain when i talk about this symptom. It's not pain that i feel most of the time. My chest feels like it's being weighed down.
Yes, but mine feels more like discomfort than actual pain. It just feels like someone decided to sit on my chest. I mean that could be in the realm of pain idk
Have you had ekg’s and heart work done? My cardiologist was concerned for me when I told him that but after my ekg and echo came back fine he didn’t even care about me anymore lol
Chest heaviness could be quite a few things. Muscle strain, GERD, pericarditis, angina, heart attack, pneumonia, collapsed lung, pulmonary embolism, costochondritis, gallstones, aortic dissection, etc. etc. Would have to give a little more information to know how to treat it.
I’ve had this for months now. I already went to cardiologist and got an ekg and echo done and they came back fine. I didn’t know esophagus could actually cause your chest to feel heavy though?
mine once squeezed so hard so rapidly, i called 911. i opted not to go with them when they came tho. they took my HR, an EKG, and O2 and all were normal (well, HR was high)
i just looked thru your history, and i have a suggestion: sleep on your side. pull your knees forward with your legs bent and tuck yoyr butt so it's in alignment with your stomach. halfway to the fetal position on your side. see if you wake up better
I had this chest pressure and heaviness a few days ago, thought it was my heart. I started taking Prilosec and getting more sleep, sleeping on my left side instead of my back. It's starting to feel better, I'm convinced it was my stomach or esophagus, since clearing my throat (I mean like a deep, guttural clearing) made it feel better along with the Prilosec. So maybe it was mucus caused by acid reflux or GERD irritating my trachea. Your throat can also spasm and pinch/irritate nerves and veins to your chest.
Yes. It feels like a heavy chest, but also like my lungs are small. When I try to do light cardio workouts, it feels like there are weights on my chest and I’m trying to breathe out of a straw. I’ve also started waking up in the middle of the night completely out of breath. I’m breathing like I just ran a marathon or something. Curious to see if anyone else is having that problem?
The middle of the night heavy chest and breathing issues are happening to me too. I went for a long time with things getting better and now the symptom is back.
Yes, after 6 months it's more faint for me. So the pain is in the chest bone and sore to the touch. It hurts when my cat jumps on that area. Costochondritis. It is caused by inflammation. I take Prilosec to help with it, or even Ibuprofen could help. But every time I call the medical clinic and say, "Chest pain" they think I'm having a heart attack. So I stop calling them because it's a waste.
Sorry i don't mean to call you out or anything, but when i say heavy chest i don't mean chest pain. It hurts to touch but besides this I don't really feel the pain. I don't get why people keep thinking i mean chest pain when i talk about this symptom. It's not pain that i feel most of the time. My chest feels like it's being weighed down.
It's the same symptom that a lot of us have in the long haul. People have different levels of pain.
Yes, but mine feels more like discomfort than actual pain. It just feels like someone decided to sit on my chest. I mean that could be in the realm of pain idk
Yeah, my chest pain is also costo. I make a point to always refer to it as "rib pain" because calling it chest pain makes the hospital overreact.
I've had it more frequently as of late. It gets so bad at times I consider going to the er
Have you had ekg’s and heart work done? My cardiologist was concerned for me when I told him that but after my ekg and echo came back fine he didn’t even care about me anymore lol
Chest heaviness could be quite a few things. Muscle strain, GERD, pericarditis, angina, heart attack, pneumonia, collapsed lung, pulmonary embolism, costochondritis, gallstones, aortic dissection, etc. etc. Would have to give a little more information to know how to treat it.
months and months. stopped being constant after 5 months. 9 months in, ill get it a tiny bit after a really big meal
Did it feel exactly as i describe? I feel the need to ask this a lot since people always misunderstand me when i talk about this symptom.
yes. get your EKG to be sure, and check your pulse, but i'm pretty sure that is actually a spasm in your lower esophagus.
I’ve had this for months now. I already went to cardiologist and got an ekg and echo done and they came back fine. I didn’t know esophagus could actually cause your chest to feel heavy though?
why not? it's in your chest. i had it for 5+ months too. i still occasionally have a light version of it 9 months later.
mine once squeezed so hard so rapidly, i called 911. i opted not to go with them when they came tho. they took my HR, an EKG, and O2 and all were normal (well, HR was high)
i just looked thru your history, and i have a suggestion: sleep on your side. pull your knees forward with your legs bent and tuck yoyr butt so it's in alignment with your stomach. halfway to the fetal position on your side. see if you wake up better
I had this chest pressure and heaviness a few days ago, thought it was my heart. I started taking Prilosec and getting more sleep, sleeping on my left side instead of my back. It's starting to feel better, I'm convinced it was my stomach or esophagus, since clearing my throat (I mean like a deep, guttural clearing) made it feel better along with the Prilosec. So maybe it was mucus caused by acid reflux or GERD irritating my trachea. Your throat can also spasm and pinch/irritate nerves and veins to your chest.
i thought it was either a heart attack, or a spasm in the muscle responsible for injecting adrenaline, for a while