butterflytrans

You're 23?! The chances of you having lung cancer from your smoking, as I mentioned to you before, are almost ZERO. The vast majority of people who get lung cancer from smoking have a MINIMUM 10 packyear smoking history. A packyear is defined as the number of packs you smoke a day, times the number of years you've been smoking.

Secondly, lung cancer barely every presents as chest pain. What you are probably having are some small chest wall, and musculoskeletal problems, BUT you're paying such close attention to it that it feels worse than it really is.

Usually lung cancer is suspected when someone has certain respiratory symptoms AND has a history that puts them at risk for lung cancer (i.e. having smoked for over 30 years). Respiratory symptoms can include a non-resolving pneumonia, or a new onset cough that won't go away, coughing up blood (rare) etc. Sometimes a person will present with shortness of breath due to a lung collapsed by a tumour, but this is also hard to distinguish because people often have underlying chronic lung disease like emphysema or chronic bronchitis.

Other signs of lung cancer are the weird and wonderful internal medicine things like:

hoarseness in the voice
drooping of one of the eyelids with the same eye's pupil being constricted
having the inability to sweat on the side of the face of the affected eye
swollen arm
painful arm
swollen left side of the face
numbness in a certain nerve distribution
arthritis and massive swelling developing in one of the legs
high calcium level in the blood
increase in blood pressure
cushingoid weight gain and other signs consistent with cushing's syndrome

and the list goes on.

I'm telling you guy, you don't have lung cancer. You're too young, and unless you smoked 5-10 packs of cigarettes a day for the two years you smoked, you're not at risk.