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Chest Tightness
10 min read
Also known as: tightness in the chest · breathing constriction · oppression · chest constriction · tightened lungs · lung pressure · breathlessness · chest oppression · shortness of breath · pressure on the lungs · thoracic constriction · respiratory tightening
Your Body Is Speaking
There is this feeling on your chest. Not an acute attack, not the wheezing airway restriction of asthma, not a heart event calling for emergency services. Rather a dull, persistent pressing. Something sits in your chest as if someone had sat down on your upper body and forgotten to stand up again. You breathe — but not deeply. You breathe — but not fully. It is as though the air only comes halfway in and then turns back at an invisible boundary.
Medically this is often hard to pin down. The doctor listens to the lungs, the values are unremarkable, the imaging shows nothing acute. And yet the feeling is real. And yet something lies on your chest that will not let go. And exactly here the real question begins: What is pressing the air out of you, when it is not the body that is restricting you?
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