Bubbles In Your Chest

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Anyone else get this?

It feels like a sharp pain in a random part of your chest, breathing in causes a sharp pain and if you keep breathing in deeper, you feel the pain suddenly dissappear, like a bubble bursting as it gets pushed against your ribs and your lungs or something.

Sometimes I get it frequently, other times I get it once a month.

And no, its not a heart attack or anything like that.

Is it just one of those things that lets you know you're human? Like sneezing causing gunk to fly everywhere, burping and you end up with bile in your mouth, squiggly lines in your eye fluid etc?
 
heartburn, acid reflux, GERD ...take your pick
 
I always get this whenever I go jogging or something. I was always told it was an air pocket in your lungs. Not entirely sure.
 
CptStern said:
heartburn, acid reflux, GERD ...take your pick
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Neither.

Heartburn lasts, and Im entirely confident Ive never had it. People I know that do get it only seem to get it when drinking wine.

Acid Reflux lasts, that I have had.

Never heard of GERD.

It feels like what Pitz says about an air pocket, and as you breathe in, you put pressure on it and it bursts, and the pain goes with it.
 
I remember have a sharp pain where my apendix was, so I automatically thought my apendix spontaneously 'sploded. But several years later I'm still here.
 
chest-burster.jpg
 
DEATHMASTER said:
I describe it as a piece of my rib stabbing my lung.
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I get this too, I put pressure on the offending rib and then breathe out and back in again really deep. That usually gets rid of it, I always figured it was a rib moving out of place slightly causing the pain.
 
I get sharp pains in my chest from time to time that hurt when I breath, it's most likely just trapped wind.
 
If it feels like your lung got pinched inbetween your ribs (as someone else I know who described a similar pain) I'm pretty sure its nothing serious. Theres actually a name for it. Precordial Catch Syndrome

PCS has consistent characteristics. Its symptoms begin with a sudden onset of anterior chest pain on the left side of the chest. The pain is localized and does not radiate like heart attack pain typically does. Breathing in, and sometimes breathing out, often intensifies the pain. Typically this causes the patient to freeze in place and breathe shallowly until the episode passes. Episodes typically last a couple of seconds to three minutes. The frequency of episodes varies by patient, sometimes occurring daily, multiple episodes each day, or years between episodes. This is believed to be localized cramping of certain muscles groups. Intensity of pain can vary from a dull annoying pain to intense pain causing momentary vision loss/bluriness.

Although deep inhalation during a PCS attack will likely cause an increase in pain, many have found that forcing themselves to breathe as deeply as possible will result in a "popping" or "ripping" sensation which quickly and completely resolves the PCS episode.

PCS episodes happen most often while sitting or lying down, and being inactive
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At least, thats what his doctor called it. And you don't have to be inactive like the quote suggests, my friend got it a couple times while stretching/working out.
 
I get these from time to time too. hopefully they're nothing serious as mentioned because my grandpa is like the expert in getting so many bypass surgeries and heart attacks. when I jog, I get really sharp pains and phlegm. I suppose thats a good thing but since my jogging partner no longer lives around here I don't go as much.
 
I get stuff like this all the time and it frightens me. I'll be in bed sometimes and it'll happen and I think my heart is having an attack or something.

For me, I've always described the pain as like, a vein being pulled into a knot suddenly.
 
Anyone ever try Fish-oil?? that stuff has seemed to help my heart pains and I've been taking it for years.

also I try to shy away from junk food these days
 
Ugh I also hate those things where you turn your head and the back of my head feels like I pulled a vein. I get them like once a year or something.
 
DEATHMASTER said:
Ugh I also hate those things where you turn your head and the back of my head feels like I pulled a vein. I get them like once a year or something.
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Aw shit yeah. I get those sometimes too. Havent in awhile, thankfully, but I used to get them a bunch in highschool. At least it goes away quickly.
 
I get them as well, and they can be pretty painful. I find that if I press down on the area with my hand and inhale deeply for a few seconds, the bubble usually goes away.
 
When you lift your head quickly and you get a sudden cramp in a tendon that holds your head up, that sucks.
 
If by "y" you mean "b", and by "a" you mean "l", and **** it I'm implying you fellate.

I get these chest pains fairly often, at least once a month. Always scares me a little because I'm a hypochondriac.
 
I had a real problem with this when I was younger, although I don't get it nearly as often now. My doctor told me it was muscle strain, kind of like a cramp of the lung. The worst I ever had was three continuous days of the pain and not being able to breathe correctly, but that's never happened to me again.
 
Yeah I get it from drinking the last dregs in a Coke bottle. It's sucks.
 
Do any of you fear the day you get arthritis in your fingers and can't play games like you use to?
 
Krynn72 said:
If it feels like your lung got pinched inbetween your ribs (as someone else I know who described a similar pain) I'm pretty sure its nothing serious. Theres actually a name for it. Precordial Catch Syndrome
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Oh shit. I had that for like 10 years - sometimes as much as once a day. Haven't had it in about a year now.

I originally thought it was very serious and that my life would be over soon. But like a year ago, I had a chest x-ray and everything was normal. Strangely enough, I don't think I've ever had any problems since. I guess it's possible that the peace of mind knowing that I don't have a tumor or irregularity that helped me relax or something.

But yeah, it felt like an air bubble or something and it intensified when I breathed in. This made me think it was a lung problem even though the pain seemed to emanate from my heart (the place where you put your hand when you say the national pledge of allegiance).

Then later I found out that the heart is actually in the middle of your chest. (That's right, jerks, I didn't know that).
 
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Not.. really. Anyway, i felt the pain where you feel your heartbeat - which, in this picture, is very slightly below where the line pointing to the lungs ends.
 
To be fair, the person in that diagram has scoliosis, so it only looks like the heart is centered.
 
Lmao. No, but really, that's the digestive tract, not the spine.

Yes, I know that's the joke, I don't know why I even stated that.
 
Sometimes I have my mobile phone next to my ear and my belt still vibrates...its just gas in my lower intestine. LOL.
 
Had it, figured it was something catching on my ribs. Also used to have this thing where sneezing hard made the inside of my elbows really ache like I got punched there. Looked it up and seems like lots of other people have had it too and nobody knows the cause. Went away with my allergies.
 
I've had this happen to me. It used to happen more frequently (I remember in high school maybe even once a week in some cases) but I don't remember it happening anytime recently, in the past year or two.
 
Well, after a good run of about a year (and not having it), I had this again yesterday after a fit of laughter.

It feels like it's just a muscle catching on the edge of a rib that makes it tender for a while - which I assume is why it doesn't go away immediately once you stand up straight or whatever.
 
I used to get this a lot when I smoked like 2 packs a day.
 
Not sure what that could be but sometimes I get palpitations in my chest..I should get that checked out.

Anyone ever get that random feeling of a stick being jammed up your asshole? It's the worst feeling ever and it lasts a few seconds then after that you're like "WTF JUST HAPPENED"?
 
AKIRA said:
Not sure what that could be but sometimes I get palpitations in my chest..I should get that checked out.

Anyone ever get that random feeling of a stick being jammed up your asshole? It's the worst feeling ever and it lasts a few seconds then after that you're like "WTF JUST HAPPENED"?
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I know exactly what you mean. I have no idea what it could be. Must be a muscle spasm or something.

Sphinctasm!

Wait... that sounds wrong on multiple levels.
 
Lol, it also makes it sound like a butt orgasm. Do not want.
 
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