Extreme pain in the very lower left chest? Just had the flu, is it related?

I have a really terrible pain in my lower left chest, just down there under my breast right where the ribs end.

Hurts to breathe, move, move my left arm (and i'm left handed @_@), hitting the bumps in my truck knocks out my breath, laying down flat makes it feel like my lung is being stabbed down there.... School starts back tomorrow, and just moving slightly is killing me, I don't think I can handle walking around that giant building going up and down the stairs every class period (first class is up, next is down, then up, then down, then across the building, then up, then down again @_@) And if I can't move my dominate arm without serious pain, I don't know what I'll do.

The end of the week before last, I started coughing that evil cough of mine, and I started to get weak from it, so I thought it was the really evil sinus infection I tend to get at this time of year, but I went to the doctor and found out I had the flu, which I've never had before. Is this related? Am I sick AGAIN?

I am 17, and for the past 5 years I've had breathing trouble, and a constant barage of sinus infections the past 3 years (though sinus problems in my family are very common).

I have had every test done under the sun, and they can't find a thing wrong with me.

I had a stress-induced condition in the past, and my sudden hard-to-breath condition started a year after I started going under a lot of stress.

I've had a couple of episodes of extreme pain twice within a month about 4 years ago now, though they were much more widespread then what I have now, but it was just as severe.

The doctors can't find anything wrong with me, but my breathing trouble has impacted me, and these constant bad infections and illnesses are getting me in trouble for absences, even though I have doctors notes.

I also have a little hair loss and thinning from stress the past couple of months, which they told me they really only see in older patients.

Why has my stress been screwing with my body??

There was a strain of influenza going around this season that had a second wind of pneumonia. Your lungs are probably very sore from having the flu. Yes, it's probably related, call the doc if you don't get better soon. You really need to rest and drink a lot of fluids, take a multi vitamin and some vitamin C, zinc, etc. Stay warm and don't let the cold wind go down your throat. Wear a scarf around your throat.

Thankfully it was something that can be treated, so you will get better soon! Take care. Report It

Get yourself back to your doctor.