Hi. I just read the questions on here but cannot find one similar to mine. Today, sporadically, I have had a pinching pain right in the middle of my chest, and not to the left or right. I am healthy, I exercise regularly and I eat healthy, however, I do smoke about 5 cigarettes a day. I have been smoking for 3 years now but I have never experienced this pain. I am not sure if its related to smoking or if it might be something else. The pain lasts only about 5 seconds, but it is painful enough that for those 5 seconds I cannot continue doing whatever it is that I was doing before. Thank you!
Hi welcome to Chat Doctor... You have smoking habit and sharp sudden pain is the complaint .... Smoking can lead restrictive as well as obstructive lung disease .... It releases elastane and lung elastic tissue damage can occur .... So yes I want to rule idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis or early COPD changes by following investigation......1. Chest x-ray (digital preferable)2. Spirometry (we can say as pulmonary function test)Than according to cause treatment guided by bronchodilator or steroid like Chat Doctor. ... Try to avoid smoking .... Rehabilitation program can be attended for that .... Take healthy and balanced diet ... Advise