What’s this pain in my ribs?

Symptoms:

You’ve developed chest pain close to your breastbone and your chest feels tender to touch. You’ve recently taken up weightlifting and you’ve been doing press ups each morning. You’re a smoker and you have a chronic smoker’s cough which has recently got worse. You have a fever, and pain on one side of your chest which is worse when you breathe deeply or cough.

You’re a fit man in your 20s and you’ve got a pain in one side of your chest which gets worse on movement and coughing. It seems to lie in the space between your ribs. You’re feverish and you’ve got a headache. It could be: Costochondritis, which can resemble a heart attack, and there’s often no known cause. It can be brought on by heavy lifting and strenuous exercise. It’s due to an inflammation in the cartilage where the ribs join the breastbone.

an inflammation in the covering of the lungs (pleura) and probably signifies you have an underlying lung infection.