What causes pounding headache and tightness in chest?
Patient: It's summer time, so I sleep with my fan on and my door closed. This morning I woke up with a pounding headache and it feels as if my chest is very tight, right down the center. It's not focused on my left side, or my right side but it's directly in the middle and something as simple as making a quick movement causes it to flare up some more. It has happened once before and a co-worker of mine said it was probably a muscle pull, I work out every day and I do proper stretches, and it just happened over night. What do you think it could be? Doctor: the type of history you are giving, it seems as if it is some muscular type of pain only. another possibility is of dyspeptic pain , but one sincere advice is not to ignore this pain,but to consult a doctor for its proper assessment, as you never know it can be any one type of pain from a long list of causes of chest pain