Tight chest and difficulty breathing.

I Had something like this last year, I fell off my friends horse and when I tried to get up I got a shooting pain up my back, being scared [as I’ve broken the side of my back before and this was my spine I had a pain up] I let myself fall back to the floor as I didnt want to do any more damage by moving, and I fell face first in the sand and swallowed a lot, leading me to believe it was an infection, I went to the doctors and even ended up having paramedics out during one attack but because there was no pattern, it wasnt muscular or anything as when it wasnt happening I felt perfectly fine and had no pain at all, and by the time I I coudl get to a hospital or the paramedics arrived, it had stopped and as I say I felt perfectly fine, the only way I can describe it was it was as if I had strings in the inside of my ribs being tightening too much and it was pulling my ribs in, and I coudlnt breathe. I dont have them as bad anymore, sometimes I have a bit of tightness but after a really bad attack where I was screaming in agony on the floor and my neighborcalled the paramedics I havent had any more.

One thing though, the first time it happened to me I thought I was dieing of a heart attack which DID NOT help as it sent me into a panic attack too which made it a million times worse, just lie back, close yoru eyes and try and breathe deeply, you might look like your giving birth [I did aparently loll] but hey, it does help.

one thing my doctor did say was that, even though he couldnt say for definate as he hadnt seen me have one, is that a lot of teenage girls get this infection which causes this but its perfectly harmless and will go away.

Hope this helps!