Thread: Bump in the chest area.

1) how can you expect anyone to tell you waht it is?

2) stop smoking.

3) go to the doctor.

Originally Posted by P-funk

1) how can you expect anyone to tell you waht it is?

2) stop smoking.

3) go to the doctor.

i keep trying to quit, but i keep coming back. I wish i never started.

I seen my doctor about it, but he just passed it off as blahh....it's nothing. BUt that's how he's like with everything with me. He spend no more than a full minute with me for anything.

I think I need a new doc.

time for a new doctor.

Its a tumour

Theanine and sam-e have both proven to be very helpful to quell smoking urge when you are trying to quit.

This sounds like cartiledge inflammation. It needs to be properly evaluated - it maybe possibly caused by training. P-funk might be induced to consider this point and respond, if you ask him.

I irritated this tissue, on and off for years. I used to carry heavy bound journal tomes when I went off to meetings, or for lunch, during busy years in graduate research, before then, by toting textbooks around during long years as a University student. I managed to badly inflame the tissue on on side more than the other. An astute physician, who had observed this problem in other students, drily commented on the cause and suggested I get smart and use a backpack.

The condition resolved itself wtihin a few months, once the mechanical cause of the condition was removed.

In your case, I would look at benching as a possible culprit. If you are in martial arts, I would look at certain practices that might cause repeated assault to that area of the lower chest.

I concur - you need to see a different GP or internist. Your present physician isn't providing you with the level of service you need.

Originally Posted by Trouble

Theanine and sam-e have both proven to be very helpful to quell smoking urge when you are trying to quit.

This sounds like cartiledge inflammation. It needs to be properly evaluated - it maybe possibly caused by training. P-funk might be induced to consider this point and respond, if you ask him.

I irritated this tissue, on and off for years. I used to carry heavy bound journal tomes when I went off to meetings, or for lunch, during busy years in graduate research, before then, by toting textbooks around during long years as a University student. I managed to badly inflame the tissue on on side more than the other. An astute physician, who had observed this problem in other students, drily commented on the cause and suggested I get smart and use a backpack.

The condition resolved itself wtihin a few months, once the mechanical cause of the condition was removed.

In your case, I would look at benching as a possible culprit. If you are in martial arts, I would look at certain practices that might cause repeated assault to that area of the lower chest.

I concur - you need to see a different GP or internist. Your present physician isn't providing you with the level of service you need.

I've had it for a couple of years before I started training, so I don't think it's that. It use to be tiny and unnoticable, but now it's getting uncomfortablly big. (hope it's not a tumor ).

Is there a specialized doctor I should be looking for?

Probably need to start with another GP or internist. That doctor has to refer you to a specialist, if necessary (especially true for insurance coverage purposes). It might be a rheumatologist (if its connective tissue inflammation) or an orthopedist, it might be an oncologist, if its a slow growing tumor (most likely benign - but do *not* presume that this means it can slide - get that lump looked at by a competent physician).

Good luck with it, Jon - and with quitting smoking as well. Attending to both with reduce your stress from worry and the negative helath effects of nicotine / smoking that hinders strength training progress.