Q I was diagnosed with bronchitis. After a recent flu and respiratory infection, it gave me a chronic cough which I still have, and Im still coughing up stuff. I can deal with the bronchitis, however, i have developed right chest pain. Its a sharp pain... it hurts when I take breaths, especially hurts when I cough, and also hurts from basic movements.
Chest pain that you are experiencing seems to originate from kungs and it is due to bronchitis and cough. Prolonged cough strain your chest wall and make its musculoskeletal components get inflammed which give rise to chest pain as you are describing. Bronchitis itself can cause chest pain as one of its symptoms. We would advise you to focus more on treating bronchitis and cough in order to relieve chest pain. Once your cough willl get reduced and bronchitis will get controlled, you will be free from chest pain too. Common symptoms of acute bronchitis may last upto 2 weeks but cough can extend up to 8 weeks in some cases. So, you may have these symptoms till this extended period of time. Often it get resolved on its own. Or it can be treated with symptomatic treatment. For chest pain any over the counter pain reliever medicine will help. But do not take these more than 3 times in a week. Or get prescribed pain killers from your doctor to deal with chest pain. Also, hot application may prove helpful if the pain is due to muscular spasm at chest wall.