As I mentioned before in previous threads, I'm use to train hard, people know me for that, when I do exercises I go all the way, using a lot of mental focus to go beyond my limits, I treat each hard workout like a competition where I need to surpass myself, this the way I train. (Reduce vision, blue lips, near blackout, red eyes, etc...) I dig this.

Lately, I got chest pain, it happened twice, I mean not the chest muscle, but it look like heart's area.

First time, after nailing some PR, I began to have some sporadic 'pinching' pain in the chest, offset to the left, left arm became partially numb, had a hard time sleeping because of the intermittent chest pain, like squeezing pain (intermittent). I went to see the chiro the next day, he found a rib that moved a little and he said that rib might have been pinching a nerve that give symptoms like a pseudo-angina, good explanation... I prefer that.

Second time (Wednesday), I had the same thing happening, but this time when I came back home, I hardly was able to drink my shake, was totally unable to eat (I tried force-fed) and wasn't able to drink the PM shake either. I took the next day off, stayed in bed, ate half what I'm use too. Today I was feeling better, went to the gym and train less hard and feel ok.

My question is, I'm not eliminating the rib that is pinching the nerve, but also I wonder if it could be possible that my O2 dept was too great when I push over my limits, I mean if I have blue lips and all, maybe the heart miss some O2 and do not like this... ? So I should back-off and train less hard ?

Did somebody experienced something like that, or have you heard someone have this ?

Thanks guys.

Eric