Pain when breathing in deep.

[Lisabear0727]

Yesterday morning, I was sitting in a meeting at work. All of a sudden, it felt like my back spassimed. I excused myself and went to the bathroom. It was hard to walk and short of breathe. I got to the bathroom and collapsed on the floor in pain. After calming down, I felt it eased up. But when I started to move, it would hurt again. Made it back to my office... And sat for awhile. Every time a breathed it was a sharp pain. Hours later, the pain was more in the sides. Now I feel it in the front of my chest. Went to hospital. They did blood test, chest X-ray, EEG, and urine. Everything came back clear but my urine had high glucose/but no high glucose in blood. They said it is pleurisy. But read up on it more...I'm confused because most pleurisy if cause from being sick.  I'm not nor haven't been. They gave me 3 shots. Muscle relaxer, pain, and steroid.  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!

[pignut]

how awful i do know several people who have coughed and thrown their back into spasm. the symptoms of a back spasm can include the feelings you describe in addition to back pain.

[David Tinkelman, M.D.]

The pain you describe is consistent with pleurisy but also could have a musculo-skeletal cause, such as muscle spasm.  The one diagnosis that must not be missed is blood clots to the lungs (called pulmonary emboli) but your pain, as described is somewhat atypical for that.  Nevertheless, you might want to discuss this possibility with your doctor for, if this raises his suspicion, further testing might be warranted.

Good luck

[Lisabear0727]

Anyone??? Now it feels like there's a pillow in my chest...