[mandazzle]

At the beginning of December I was having really bad chest pains, and then I began to feel really sick so I went to the doctor. I had strep and an upper respiratory infection, so they gave me some antibiotics and anti-inflammatory meds, and I felt a lot better but the chest pain never really went away. So about 2 weeks later I went back to the doctor, and she said she wanted me to get x-rays to see if I had pneumonia. I was hoping I did because then I would be able to get meds, get better and be able to do swim team again. Well the x-rays came back normal, so then they wanted me to get a pulmonary test. The results of that came back normal, so then they sent me to a cardiologist. I got an EKG and an ultrasound. That was all normal except for the fact that they said they couldn't see some of my veins because I have an athletic build and I'm thin. But then they said that I had to get a stress test. When I took that they said that if I had the chest pain while I was running they would be able to see what was wrong because I was hooked up, and I had the chest pain but everything was normal except for the fact that my blood pressure runs higher than normal. I already knew that though. Then they were going to hook me up to a heart monitor but I was going to watch our JV meet that night so I didn't want to have it while I was at the pool, so they decided they would put it on the next week. Then I went to get blood taken (which was not fun because I have aichmophobia) to see if it's a thyroid problem because that runs in my family. The blood work came back normal, so they decided I don't have to wear the heart monitor because my stress test was normal.
So after all this trouble, I couldn't do swim team for almost half the season and it turned out to be nothing. They said that it might have something to do with an inflammation in my lungs that gets irritated when I breathe heavy, when I do swim team.
It stinks because I missed out on so much of swim team, I have no answers, and it still hurts.