Your scenario does not provide enough information to clearly delineate which of these could be the reason for the symptoms.
If the pain is one that starts in the chest and radiates to the back, it could be indicative if a heart attack...
If the pain is one that is worse when inspiring with associated fever, it could indicate pleurisy
If the pain is associated with associated shortness of breath, it could indicate a pulmonary embolism.
If it is a pain that gets worse when lying on your back and is relieved when leaning forward, it may indicate pancreatitis,...
If it is pain that is relieved by leaking forward, it could be pericarditis.
Fever and pain when taking a deep breath + shortness of breath
Pleurisy is the likely cause
Might be a pneumonia.
It turned out to be 5 blood clots in the lungs and mycoplasma pneumoniea.
Lucky me, huh? 😂
Mycoplasma pneumoniae was responsible for the pleuritic chest pain... The blood clots in the lungs were a possible complication
In my experience, the mycoplasma pneumoniae caused the fever. I had no pain associated with that (I had it for about a week prior). The blood clots caused the pain that made me call the doctor because the pain was similar to what I experienced about 11 months ago, where they found 2 big blood clots in my right lung.
I had been off my blood medication for about 4 months (due to liver complications) and this time around, there were 5 clots. So now I need the blood medication for the rest of my life, and they're also still trying to figure out what's wrong with my liver. And on top of that, I have crohns disease which they are also trying to figure out if I should be treated for.
All of this has been going on for the past year 😂
It sounds like you have a lot of difficulty at the moment and I am so sorry to hear that.
Yes blood clots in the lungs can cause pleuritic chest pain, but they are not the norm. Pleurisy is most commonly caused by some form of inflammation of the lungs and the surrounding tissues which is what a pneumonia does.
However, in your case, it does sound like there is a lot of things to consider in your case and it would not be right to reduce your symptoms to what would fit in a medical trivia.
I wish you speedy recovery!
Thank you! I sure hope I'm back to full health soon too 😄