Upper-left corner chest pain

[kangarootaco]

A few weeks ago I started feeling pain in the upper-left corner of my chest while doing bench presses. I completed all the sets, but they were not great. Two days later I felt the same pain doing dips, only worse, and I had to stick with the body weight warm-ups I usually do. I was forced to back off on the bench presses next time, but apparently didn't do so fast enough because I am now unable to do more than one set of 5 at my 3x5 max, and also unable to do a single body weight dip. The pain gradually flares up during sets of weighted pull-ups, but fortunately it is totally absent during overhead presses.

I can feel the pain if I pinch the upper-left corner of my chest, so I assume that's what's injured. Perhaps the pain is actually coming from the tip of my bicep that ends behind the chest muscles, but if that were the case, I would have expected pain during curls, which there isn't. And yet there is pain during weighed pull-ups.

Has anyone experienced this pain before, and if so, what did you find helpful for it?

[John Hanley]

Dude. Could be so many things.

Mash your thumb into your acromioclavicular joint. Pain?

[kangarootaco]

Dude. Could be so many things.

Mash your thumb into your acromioclavicular joint. Pain?

It's mildly sore, but it is on the right shoulder as well.

[John Hanley]

It's mildly sore, but it is on the right shoulder as well.

See a doc

[kangarootaco]

See a doc

It seems that won't be necessary. When I posted last week, I had dropped my daily Vitamin D dosage to 1000IU after taking 3000IU daily for eight weeks, according to the plan my doctor recommended in August (see http://startingstrength.com/resource...ad.php?t=52940 ). But after posting about it, I decided to try going back to 3000IU to see if that made any difference. A week later the pain is completely gone. There is not even the slightest hint of it when I do bench presses or weighted pull-ups. I'll be trying weighted dips again on Wednesday, but the body-weight dips I tried today (Monday) were completely painless as well.