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Avatar f tn However, yes, symptoms like anxiety and headaches can re-surface time and again for a few months, especially if you are stressed or around smokers or are sitting idle. Usually chest tightness is a common symptoms in those who quit smoking. This lasts for a few days after last cigarette. The tightness (not actually pain) is due to anxiety and stress and due to various changes in body due to nicotine withdrawal.
Avatar f tn Ok im a 21 year old hispanic male, i smoked for about 2 years, at about 5 ciggs a day. I quit smoking after i started getting some tightness in my chest! It went on for 2 weeks everyday. So finally i got a breathing attack in the car and my parents took me to the hospital. They took an EKG and an x-ray of my chest! The doctor told me i was a healthy young man, and it wasnt my heart or lungs! It was some relief, then the next day i started feeling tightness and an annoying sensation again!
Avatar f tn I have been on wellbutrin to quit smoking for 10 days now, I have such chest tightness I feel as though I can't breath, like there is no air in my lungs. I heard this is a side effect should I keep taking it?
Avatar f tn Kudos to you for quitting smoking! Cough wheezing tightness of chest are all part of the withdrawal symptoms and can be easily overcome by medication. Other than this it could be smoker’s lung which causes an asthma like condition. You can discuss this with your PCP or go to a smoking de-addiction center and take treatment for this. Please consult your PCP for primary examination followed by proper referral. Please let me know if there is any thing else and do keep me posted. Take care!
Avatar f tn I quit smoking 2 weeks ago I used to smoke less than a pack a day for about 3 years, right before I quit I began to feel a slight chest pain that occurs 4 or 5 times a day mostly in the left side of my chest and then it disappears in a minute or two and that's it, no cough no tightness nothing but it worried me a lot so I quit now after 2 weeks I still experience the same pain, what could it possibly be?
Avatar f tn I quit smoking almost 2 wks now( withone night of smoking about a week ago). I'm not having cravings for a smoke, but i feel like I'm having an allergic reaction to something. Tightness of chest, sometimes its hard to breath, and sometimes I feel like I'm having a tiny panic attack. Is this normal and how long will this last.
Avatar m tn i also get minor shoulder tightness (but seprately from other symptoms) and dull tightness in the middle of my chest (also slight pain and tightness in right chest). i am worried sick that i might get a heart attack. it makes me have depression on a contant basis. help me please. i dont have health insurance, so i cant afford to get a check-up. i will try soon though. i am so scared, thanks to all.
Avatar f tn Otherwise in good health, except for GERD and some neck arthritis, both of which are under control. I have quit smoking many times, had quit for a year (again) and then 2 weeks ago I bought some cigarettes, got hooked again briefly. I felt terrible after smoking - burning in my lungs, tightness, dizzy, lightheaded. I stopped again and have not smoked since.
1928839 tn?1323265907 ve had the Costo since a child, the fall aggravated it to the point, I have to crack my chest for relief. Then when I quit smoking and was no longer taking deep breathes, it got even worse. There's a post by Bill something who explains what happens with the deep breathing and quitting smoking - I'll leave the link at the bottom - just click on it. Not everyone has chest pain for *months* after quitting.
Avatar m tn 5 cigs. a day. 2 months earlier I started feeling tightness and fullness in my chest and throat that was very bothersome even when am at rest it used to occur and may last for a whole day sometimes accompanied by an elevated heart rate but there was never any shortness of breath. I went to the ER a couple of times all they did was an EKG which was always normal and they said its nothing.
Avatar m tn I am a 27 yr old female. I started smoking at age 15 and quit almost 2 years ago. For the 10+ years that I did smoke, the last 4 years was only socially and during my peak smoking I never smoked more then a half a pack a day. Over the past 3-4 months I have been experiencing a tightness exclusively in the left side of my chest and quite often when I try to inhale a deep breath I feel like I cant quiet get a full breath. I have the urge to yawn a lot as well. I have no other symptoms.
Avatar f tn I was diagnosed with Emphysema a couple years ago and am wondering if this condition gets worse even though I have quit smoking 10 years ago? Also would like to know if stress can trigger an episode?
Avatar n tn With a few minutes of steady breathing the panic goes away, but the feeling of a weight on my chest does not. In the past four months I have been smoking the equivalent of a joint every day (marijuana) and been exposed to a decent amount of second-hand smoke. Before this I have never really been exposed to second-hand smoke nor smoke at all. At the doctor's, my vitals all seemed o be fine. 95-100% blood oxygen levels, pulse between 60 and 80, etc.
Avatar f tn s the total opposite - you need an exercise that is relaxful like Yoga, Pilates or simply stretching and breathing exercise. I, personally switch back and forth based on the tightness in my chest. If there's is tightness, I do the chill-out routine otherwise I'm cardio and heavy weight training.
Avatar f tn I am on day 17 and i still feel anxiety and a tightness in my chest. I quit smoking almost 4 months ago along with depression med, topomax and something for leg pain at night.
Avatar f tn Hi, Dr. Mathur I am 46 year Male quit complete smoking 6 weeks back & now I am having problem of chest Tightness at just below the neck on center of chest along with pain in left hand at palm & elbow joint area. I visit the hospital and discussed with General physician in OPD . Firstly ECG done & result was normal & then TROPONIN - T ( Serum ) Test done & result was Negative.
Avatar n tn I was a smoker some 20 years ago, Iam 54, I recently had a sinus operation and in the convalescence I picked up the pharyngitis virus, as a result of my recovery I developed a cough and tightness in my chest and they made the diagnosis. They say that the present weather conditions of very cold have affected me and brought my problem to the surface. Will I recover when the weather gets warmer and will I resume my normal life?
Avatar m tn Hello, I am a 20 year old male from Texas and I have been very healthy up to this point in my life. I quit smoking cigarettes and marijuana 3 weeks ago after a year of use. I have been having many persistent symptoms the doctors are telling me is anxiety but they are varied and last all day everyday for the past two weeks. Most recently i have been experiencing chest tightness, shortness of breath, and a feeling of blood rushing to my head from the back of my neck.
Avatar n tn also said im to young to be having all these breathing problems and told me to quit smoking whitch i already knew. im gonna try agin in the next couple of weeks, when i quit last yr i just felt so much better, i dont know why i ever started agin, stupid cigarettes. and its so frusterating to quit and then start agin and do that over and over, you end up feeling defeated, ok now im ranting so ill stop.
Avatar f tn s anxiety. Has anybody experienced this all the time? I know tightness of the chest is normal during panic attacks but is it normal to have had it for 8 months for 24 hours a day 7 days a week? I'm starting not to be able to cope with this. I feel as if I am going to die every single day.
Avatar f tn i am using nicorette gum in an attempt to quit smoking. after chewing shortly and parking it between cheek and gum per instructions, i get this feeling of a clogged esphagus, right in the center of my chest. i also get the hiccups while chewing. is this normal?
Avatar m tn I have absolutely no cough, no tightness in chest, it doesnt wake me up at night, it seems to get worse when I think about it... like at the grocery store or the gym. Its constantly on my mind tho, so its hard to gauge. It didnt come in gradually, one day I could breathe, then I got sick, and the difficulty breathing never went away after my cold was gone. I got a PFT, and the guy that ran it said "I bet its chronic bronchitis"... I don't think he was even a doctor!
Avatar m tn s been 6 weeks since his last cig. He has had horrible withdrawal symptoms. Chest pain, tightness in chest, irregular heartbeats, dizziness, numbness in arm and the list goes on. He has been to the emergency room 3 times and has had ECGs and x-rays and blood tests done. All come back fine. He believes there is something terribly wrong. I keep telling him it's just his withdrawal symptoms and I do believe that's all it is.
Avatar n tn my wife is taking bupropion sr 150 mg to quit smoking and wants to know if cold medication can be taken while on this drug.
Avatar n tn Started in cold weather (travelling outside of Florida in cold climate). No other symptoms. Seemed to be only chest tightness, and an almost constant dry cough- rarely productive. I was already taking antihistamine daily for allergies. Went to the doctor after about 30 days. He gave Asmanex, a Medrol 6 day dose pack, Nexium, and upped to an ant-histamine with decongestant (Claritin-D generic equivalent.