So I went up the hospital, I was traiaged almost immediately. All my stats were fine, they called me in again to do an ECG, all checked fine.
The doctor calls me in again and I sit and have a massive discussion about my pain, where it hurts, when it hurts, scale of pain, breathing etc. then asked history, I explained about my anxiety and that I'm doing CBT and not once did they even suspect this was anxiety and fob me off, they did a very thorough assessment limbs, lungs, chest, eyes, tapping me all over the place pressing down on areas and could see I had been in alot of pain, they left the room for about 15 minutes I could sort of hear them discussing it outside the door, anyway, they came back in and said, Siobhan what are your main concerns, what do you think it might be? So I explained, dvt, lung infection/cancer etc and he was very reassuring, he sat down and explain what he seriously suspects it is which is Polymyalgia rheumatica. It's something to do with my immune system attacking my muscles, he said my ribs and chest felt very tender and could see I was in alot of pain, even to touch, and he could also see I wasn't breathing correctly. (This air hunger thing I've had going on) He has told me I need to get my gp to run some new blood tests to check my inflammation markers, ESR and CRP and refer me to a rheumatologist to put me on a course of steroids. He was really good, he told me that if they refuse to tell them they have to as it's in the guidelines and they have to refer me. He gave me the heads up about not taking ibrofprofen and also that unfortunately there are not really any pain killers that combat this it is something for steroids. So that's my little adventure up the hospital.