Hi, I'm 21, female, normal weight. My whole life when I run I've suffered from pain in my lower teeth, chest, sometimes neck and a weird taste in my mouth like Mars bars (best way I can describe it). Get puffed out easily. Have had echos, ekgs, stress ekgs years ago. Recent repeats and chest x-rays, chest ct and cardiac ct angiogram. Many blood tests (rasied pancreas and liver enzymes; have extreme unexplained stomach probs, structurally normal from endoscopy).
Came down with POTS five months ago and have had spasms and a heaviness mostly in the left side of my chest/back when I lie down every time I exhale. My chest wall/upper back in general is very sore and sometimes it seems to send a pain up to my chin region when I breathe in deep. I experience bad shortness of breath (which I'm guessing contributes to pain) though my oxygen levels seemed fine when I was checked during, and my pulmonary function test person thought I had air left in my lungs that I wasn't exhaling even though I was blowing as hard as I could (can't get hold of my doc for proper results).
I have a mild hunch and I wonder could this be decreasing my lung power and making me more prone to pain? I also had bad pneumonia when I was 4/5 and was briefly diagnosed with asthma afterwards; can't remember if I had these symptoms beforehand. Have you heard of the sort of exertional pains I get (which do seem to come on more quickly the more hunched over my posture) or do you have any explanation for the weird taste? Thanks.