About a year-and-a-half ago, I was hanging-out with a couple of friends and I felt the early onset of a cold coming-on. After a few days, I realized that there was a sort of dryness in my left lung, however I braced for whatever was about to come my way. When the sickness struck full-force I suffered through a cold with additional symptoms, including difficultly breathing, accompanied with a sharp pain in, what I assumed was, my left lung, which manifested every time I took a breath; every breath felt insufficient. I braced myself for a few days and I was able to overcome this ailment, however, subsequently, a few days later, a sharp strain on the left-side of my chest gradually became a perceptible bother, as it inhibited me from partaking in certain activities, including sports, running, heavy lifting, etc. About two months after my run-in with the cold, it returned and I experienced the same symptoms once more, yet I was able to overcome it once again. As time went on, I became adapt to this constant strain in my chest, which would be sporadic in its intensity. About six months posterior to the last time I was battling the cold, I decided to schedule an appointment with a Pulmonolgist, which, regrettably, resulted in a six-month ordeal having me running back-and-forth to various health departments for tests, including a
The discomfort that you have described in your chest is called pleuritic chest pain. This simply means pain related to breathing or specific activity. Pleuritic pain is commonly due to irritation of the lining outside the lungs (the pleura) but may also be due to muscular or skeletal irritation. The investigation of pleuritic pain frequently yield little on imaging tests, although they are important to be sure that life-threatening illnesses are not the source of pain. In my experience, it is not uncommon to find no specific illness even after exhaustive testing. The conclusion here is a diagnosis of pleurisy (fanciful name for I don't really know). However, there is additional information that may be of value (some of which your doctor may already have). The following should be discussed with him/her