I have been having a fairly consistent dull ache in my upper-left chest/shoulder area. I'm not used to lung pain being dull...usually it's more sharp and sudden. Does anyone else have this type of pain? I know that the brain can misread nerve communications from the lower lungs and think they're coming from the shoulder (this has happened to me and someone else I know, and it was an ache), which could also be the case.
This may be a stretch, but I have a very fast heartbeat (90-100 bpm at rest), which has always been the case, and most doctors and nurses simply dismiss it. The fact that the pain is close to my heart makes me wonder. I might be making way too many connections, but I was just curious if anyone else has any ideas. Is there any reason to think that elevated heart rate is related to CF? And, is this something serious, or can this rate be healthy?
This may be a stretch, but I have a very fast heartbeat (90-100 bpm at rest), which has always been the case, and most doctors and nurses simply dismiss it. The fact that the pain is close to my heart makes me wonder. I might be making way too many connections, but I was just curious if anyone else has any ideas. Is there any reason to think that elevated heart rate is related to CF? And, is this something serious, or can this rate be healthy?