Quote Originally Posted by birdgirl73
I swear Orangeman, I'm going to be uttering these words to you on my deathbed: "Go to the doctor." Notice I said "my deathbed" and not yours.

Here's the thing about your either having serious heart disease or lung cancer. First, you don't. Second, if you did, you would long since have been either lying somewhere in a cardiac care unit or dead. This is why I know you don't have either condition. Seriously, lung cancer is aggressive and fast-moving. You're only 16 and you didn't smoke long enough to have that. But if you did, trust me. In the 6- or 7-month time period we've been discussing your chest pains, your lung cancer, assuming you were still alive at all, would have progressed so far that you would no longer be sitting at home typing a post on an Internet cannabis forum. And frankly, if your chest pain were dangerous and heart-related, you also would have given in and gone to the doctor or emergency room.

I still maintain that you have a very vivid imagination, are experiencing some anxiety-related chest pain, are spending too much time isolated and alone, and are likely eating an unhealthy diet. You may also have asthma, which can cause chest pains and tightness, or a slight lung inflammation/infection of some kind, but bronchitis or pneumonia tend to get worse without treatment and get your notice real fast and send you to the doctor, too.

Remember that doctors can be very helpful at helping folks prevent disease, especially when you see them early enough. This is why people go for regular checkups, you know? So they doc can check them for routine stuff and catch it before it becomes a problem. You need to go and have a checkup so you can stop worrying about this. But I'm sure I'll still be telling you this next December. . . and the next one after that.
Ok fine I'm just gonna put everything aside and during the break I'm gonna make it a priority to go get a check up. I want to know why I have this pain and why it's so strange. It's like when I smoke I don't feel it, when I breath..even deeply, I don't feel it. But sometimes it just randomly comes up or when I'm doing push-ups I can feel it but that's about it. It's strange, I just wanna know what it is. I have to go...what ever I have avoiding the doctor isn't gonna make it go away and even if I do go the only thing they are doing is confirming what I already had in the first place if it's anything. I'm gonna go...
orangeman Reviewed by orangeman on . Smokers chest pains? I was just wondering if a person smokes and has chest pains is it just as bad as a person that doesn't smoke and has them? I'm wondering because with me it could be something like bronchitis but I read some where that if you have chest pains it's an "emergency". Well if it's not really hurting but it's just a little annoying..thing that's there and you smoke is it just something that I have to deal with because of what I do or what? Also is there anyone else that is like me? I know, I know I Rating: 5