Le Grand Moan

Agreed!

Bags just maybe you should ask your GP to get this chest looked at by a consultant. have you ever?

Good idea. It could? Be intra abdominal irritating the diaphragm!

I now this isn't the case here, but the worst pain I've ever had in that region was caused by a ruptured ectopic pregnancy. Don't think most GPs would think of referred pain from the diaphragm

bags
Please re read the insert ( panic sheet ) of the Naproxen.
I don't think it is the drug of choice for asthmatics.

It's not it's a Nisaid as is aspirin. It makes the asthma worse, as do beta blockers which I take!
But sometimes you have to juggle!

Do you take Lanzoprazole? You probably do, with the NSAIDs you take. But I have had a tightness in the chest which an extra dose of Lanzoprazole sorted out..

I do understand about your GP; it must be awful to know you won't get any help there. xxx

Never heard of lanzowotsit. I have read the naproxen panic sheet. I don't use naprox v often. Asthma nurse said only four percent of asthmatics are badly affected by aspirin. I reckon I'm in the other 96%.

When I first started complaining to GP, about fifteen years ago in Oxford, I was sent for endoscopy, etc. All fine and dandy, apparently.

Seems I have to go and watch Arrietty. Back later. Thank you, peeps.

Oh bags, I'm so sorry that you're not feeling well. I feel very helpless and can't offer any suggestions but you're in my thoughts

Just a thought....my daughter had unexplained chest/diaphragm pains for a long time, had all the obvious checks but nothing showed. Was eventually diagnosed with Bornholms. I don't know if you fit the symptom profile for that though? Has it been mentioned by your GP? Jeni will know.

Can't offer any advice, bags, but I think you must be feeling quite fed-up and a bit poorly indeed to be telling us about it . Have you done anything that may have pulled a muscle in your chest, perhaps? I've done that now and again, and the pain is so awful I can't breathe in properly for a day or so.

Sorry to hear you are not so well*bags*. to cheer you up. Can't add any more useful words to what has already been said but am hoping you fell better very soon.

O.K bags
Time to stop messing about!
Get a referral for a Rheumatologist!

I have a friend with a very severe arthritic condition, and he now has injections.
Nothing by mouth.

They are working very well.
Chin up.

Sorry I can't be of any help with advice, Bags but I do hope you feel better soon

Hope you sleep well tonight B [crescent moon] and feel better in the morning.

Log in and let us all know.

x

Could you have a chest infection ? my sister was in an awful state the other week, wheezing, coughing until she was sick and unable to lie down in bed.

I think most of us need the summer to patch ourselves up after the winter and the lack of any sort of sunshime is having a detrimental [sp] effect [affect] on everyone's health at the moment. And you've been doing an awful lot recently, haven't you Bags? On the subject of asthma I've just been reading Call the Midwife, and the author says that asthma is very much a modern day disease that, in her younger days was just treated by doing breathing exercises and not thought to be dangerous at all. Was surprised to read this, and not sure that I can agree with it. Does jeni have any thoughts on that.

If you are taking tablets that are gastric irritants regularly, your doctor should have prescribed a PPI - proton pump inhibitor, such as omeprazole which is even available over the counter - ask a pharmacist. Stomach acid can cause problems with laryngitis and rather nasty coughing. Maybe chest pain too?

Bags I know nothing at all about this but am sending you and (((hugs))). Hope you feel better soon.

Annobel that's the stuff I meant - different name. It is very good.

Good morning, everyone, and thank you for your comments. Chest still achey but it's not the sick ache of yesterday. I think it's probably just a rather nasty common cold virus. I get this kind of thing very often but it's not usually quite so bad. My system "deals with" the virus but, boy, does it complain about having to do so!

I think my chest joints (costal cartilages) are particularly sensitive to any kind of intrusion, probably because of the underlying (^underlying^!? Ha!) arthritis which affects more and more of me as time goes on. It has stopped my dancing, cycling and swimming over the last ten or twelve years (I know swimming should help but it doesn't). My muscles are fine but if I swim even a few lengths, I'm floored for a couple of days because of the chest ache; it must be a bone/cartilage thing. My chest tells me when the barometric pressure is rising or falling too, usually before the 'proper' barometers catch on

My GP knows all this (well, he's been told anyway). I don't think there's anything he can do. Roll on medical research into arthritis, I say!

Hope today will continue to improve for you, B.

Bags , sorry to hear you are in so much pain. I hope today is bette r for you. Sun here so hope it is with you too.

I blame the weather! My arthritis is worse than usual over the last month or so. Roll on the med!
Glad you're feeling better though!

Hey no!
Off to work I go!

Bags I hope you're feeling less sore and under the weather this morning. Sausages and cauliflower cheese – good idea – aim for more comfort food this evening.