Your symptoms sound so similar to mine, Pandora. I also get that in my chest, extreme tightness in my sternum and a burning sensation between my ribs that is only relieved by stretching until my sternum pops, I have to pop it like ten times a day. My left shoulder pops and cracks from a workout injury too and looking up what it might be almost always brings up surgery, which I just can't pay for right now.

I have a lot of old sports injuries that I never addressed and it feels as if it's all came back to effect me since I turned 30. I had two seizures from head trauma when I was young also and never got an MRI to properly check them out. After researching what an unchecked head injury can do to you later in life I worry that if I do get an MRI the results will be bad to say the least.

I do have a doctor I trust but I lost my job a while ago and so lost my insurance as well, to continue seeing him is very expensive so I'm stuck with what I can afford rather than who I trust. I actually went to the hospital two months ago and maybe I didn't express my symptoms well enough because I feel like they didn't address my concerns and never really gave me any sort of answers that gave peace of mind.

I feel the same way you do, if I could just get some sort of diagnosis, even if it was bad, at least it would remove the uncertainty and worries about "is it this? Is it that?". I feel like I drive my friends and family crazy with talking about it so I've stopped bringing it up to anyone except my girlfriend who wants me to go to the hospital. I start worrying though that they'll want to do a ton of tests on me that I can't afford and I'll either have to refuse the tests or bite the bullet and get the tests done and then blow a ton of money on them. Anxiety just makes this entire thing a hundred times worse.

Sorry to hear of your diagnosis, though at least now you can treat it and hopefully start to get some relief from the pain. I hope I can get to that point soon.