This issue has been going on for two months and getting worse. It began with left side chest pain when I was projecting my voice. Then it hurt anytime I spoke and now it hurts constantly and then off and on when I speak. I get fatigued (not tired but sick feeling) in the evenings. As this has progressed I feel constant nausea.
I saw an NP a month ago and she suggested antacids. I have taken antacids for the past month and it has done nothing. I began taking Claritin for seasonal allergies. No difference. I do not have shortness of breath or sharp pain when breathing in. I DO have a mild to moderate pleural effusion that has been there for years and we have never found a cause for it. During the two months this has been going on, I passed a kidney stone and thought perhaps that was what was causing the issue but the stone has passed (I think - no pain in awhile) and the symptoms of chest pain only on the left, nausea and evening fatigue remain. I don't seem to have any tenderness in my ribs or chest wall but I have been lifting quite a few things (but nausea doesn't seem to go with Costochrondritis or fatigue). I did have an endoscopy 12/17 and as has shown in two previous endoscopies, I had some very mild gastritis that the GI said some people always have and I should not be concerned about it.