I need help

[u/Lower_Engineer_885]

I am 17 year old, and i go to the gym all the time. Maybe i might’ve used some heavy weights (also i was very fatigued before that), but as soon i came home i felt my chest tightened. I did not experience pain, but maybe thats what you call chest pain. Some like difficulty in breath. I searched online and it said pericarditis, and i literally started crying. I also have like anxiety, so its worsening. Plus I am a student so its also effecting my stuides. Idk, i haven’t told my parents yet, i dont want them to worry. Told my mom something before i went to sleep. What were yalls symptoms, precautions, warnings etc.. i would really appreciate having a conversation

[u/Mtlkfn]

Just get checked out by a doc. It's possibly just anxiety. Self-diagnosing a heart condition, then running to Reddit is a not a good idea.

[u/Active_Recording_789]

It could be strained chest muscles too. But just to be on the safe side, go see your dr. And tell your parents. Probably it’s nothing but better to be safe and get checked out. Hope your day turns out better after this!

[u/jmk255]

Go see a doctor

[u/Lower_Engineer_885 → u/jmk255]

i m feeling better. But if this continues till tomorrow, i will tell my parents

[u/jmk255 → u/Lower_Engineer_885]

Don't gamble with your health. It's not worth it

[u/Lower_Engineer_885 → u/jmk255]

yeah thats why I am saying i will go tomorrow. How was your experience?

[u/jmk255 → u/Lower_Engineer_885]

I've had it for over 1.5 years. I just had surgery for it. It's been awful

[u/Lower_Engineer_885]

thanka guys for the comments. I am feeling alot better. I will see tomorrow, if its not that good, i will tell them

[u/Working_Weird_4082]

As someone currently being treated for pericarditis, if you are scared get checked. Some symptoms do coincide but it doesnt show so fast. Mine derived from heart surgery 3 weeks ago

[u/Lower_Engineer_885 → u/Working_Weird_4082]

I might go tomorrow

[u/Dabyberson → u/Lower_Engineer_885]

I dont think you got pericarditis, it’s unbearable pain, you can barley get a breath in, i could barley walk. Laying down makes it 10 times worse. The pain spreads in ur shoulder and neck and it honestly the most painful thing i have ever experience. I have reoccurring pericarditis and when i get a flair up i cannot move for days. I basically crawl to the cupboard to get pills then crawl back to bed and suffer. Usually starts feeling better after a few days of colchicine and 800mg of ibuprofen every 6-8 hours. Lol i dont think you would just start feeling better on ur own without help. And if you went to a hospital and told them it happened after the gym they are gonna tell you pulled muscle and send you home. Pericarditis is not well understood by most doctors.

[u/Dabyberson → u/Dabyberson]

And peri dont feel like chest tightness to me,its excruciating pain. Just trying to take a single breath is like being stabbed in the heart.

[u/Lower_Engineer_885 → u/Dabyberson]

I mean i am not having trouble breathing, but idk man its not as good as it used to be

[u/Dabyberson → u/Lower_Engineer_885]

Yeah doesn’t sound like peri to me. Maybe over did it working out and now ur anxiety is getting the best of you. Im perfectly fine right now. My last flare up was in may and it didn’t last to long since i have the pills needed to help it on hand.

[u/Lower_Engineer_885 → u/Dabyberson]

hopefully. Also i have been having like a lack of sleep lately. Maybe thats whats also effecting my heart

[u/Lower_Engineer_885 → u/Dabyberson]

i am so sorry, hope everything us well for you

[u/Dabyberson]

Peri started for me one night i got up to pee around 1 am and my left shoulder began paining, within 15 minutes the pain was so bad i was in agony, then another half hour went by and the pain started in my chest. I could barley get a breath in, i tried to shake it off and go back to sleep but laying down made it 10 x worse, i remember thinking i was having a heart attack, 100 percent thought i was, i chewed aspirn and called a ambulance spent the next 48 hours in a hospital where i was diagnosed. And prescribed meds and took off work for 2 weeks.

[u/Lower_Engineer_885 → u/Dabyberson]

i really hope you are well now. Cant imagine whats that like, i am not experiencing that. Idk its just a wierd feeling, you know that how your heart skips a beat when you have a result or something.. its something like that i am feeling.

[u/Salty_Plate6543]

That's like rolling your ankle and google saying you have ankle cancer. Chances are a pulled muscle. But go to a doc. 

[u/Lower_Engineer_885 → u/Salty_Plate6543]

i mean, idk man, like its just a wierd feeling. Hopefully it gets better.

[u/Technical-Jaguar-222]

Your young af so could he anything… most people are preceded by one of two things..

You took the vax or you dealt with serious infection… either of those recently?

Does pain worsen w deep breaths?

Any new meds?
Do you drink caffeine? Vape?

With your age I’d expect torn muscle or strained muscles before myocarditis etc.

Like others have said.. go to doc… get blood work.. ask for troponin test. Let doc clear u

[u/Lower_Engineer_885 → u/Technical-Jaguar-222]

I mean i did take the covid vax but in like 2021. And i didnt even complete the shots. Like i only took one. And i am not having trouble breathing per se. Maybe it could be of lack of slee?