Hi all,

After having a fairly stressful week at work last week and lots of anxious feelings and shalow breathing my chest has been very sore over the last 3-4 days.

I have been taking ibrufen over this time but that worries me after the newspaper articles advising people its not good for hearts... Anyway I have been trying very hard just to accept its muscle tension and not to ask for any reassurance but I think just some reassurance would be good.

The discomfort is mostly down both sides of my breast and round the breast bone and in the centre of my chest too... the pain down the left side is radiating around my back and shoulder.

I have experienced similar pain before and I was diagnosed with costochondritais - inflamation of chest wall. I am assuming that if it was heart problems then soemthing would have transpired by now?

Thanks

sadie