Chest Pain

The first time I had chest pain while running was on our 15 mile run and it honestly felt like I was having a heart attach. I had this heavy feeling on the left side of my chest. It happened somewhere after the 10 mile mark. I had to walk and it was kinda hard to breath. It started to subside, but it would come back intermittently when I would try to run again. I didn't say anything to anyone, because I thought it was a fluke thing. From then on it started to happen more frequently after the 10-12 mile mark and finally before our 20 mile run I decided to tell Becka and my husband about it. I decided to go see Dr. Ott about it. Dr. Ott was out of his office the first part of the week so I ended up seeing Dr. Bowman. After examining me Dr. Bowman decided it was most likely a muscle skeletal problem and that my heart and lungs were in great shape. He decided to run some labs to check my magnesium,potassium and electrolytes. My labs came back completely normal and Dr. Bowman suggested I have 800 mg of Ibuprofen before I ran to reduce any inflammation caused by running. I tried the ibuprofen during the Cedar City Half and right after mile 12 the chest pain hit me hard. I started to walk and made Becka go on without me. I didn't want to cross the finish walking so I sucked it up and ran with my chest feeling like it would explode. That next week I made sure to go see Dr. Ott. He confirmed that my labs were great and my heart and lungs were in excellent shape. My pulse was nice and low and so was my blood pressure. He had me do a test to make sure my lungs were fine and there were great. He decided I wasn't keeping my electrolytes up during my runs. We came up with a plan to use gu every five miles and to take magnesium and potassium daily while I am training so hard. We will see how it works. I feel confident that it will work great and it will help keep my energy level up as well.