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mbryant322
Registered: 09/01/09
Posts: 1

    09/01/09 at 12:54 PM
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Hello,

I am a 22 year old female, smoker.

Don't know if this has any relavance but this is how it started. This past weekend I was having horrible back pains and I asked my boyfriend to crack my back. My back pain went away. That night it was hot so I slept with the fan in the window but tempatures got into the 40's (Late Aug).

Starting Monday Morning I woke up, with horrible chest pains, and was very hard to breathe that I started coughing, while in the shower. I've had this happen to me before and thought it was just because I was a smoker, never thought much about it. However the pain in my chest has stayed for two days without stopping. They only way I can explain the pain is like a ton of bricks on my chest. It makes it very hard for me to breathe. This also makes walking and normal activies very hard.

I have no other cold-like symtoms, I have no weazing, no pre-longing coughing, no sore throat, nothing of that nature.

I'm very sure I will be heading to the E.R. this evening as I start classes next week and I don't want whatever this is to continue while studying.

If someone could give me a clue as to what this could be and any advise that would be very helpful.

Thank-you,

Melanie
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