question: I am a 19 year old female.  A little on the heavy side.  Early this morning at about 4:30, I woke up with severe pain in the right side of my chest.  I also had a very hard time breathing.  I could not sit or lay down because it felt as if the right side of my lung would collapse in.  I spent two hours standing up against a wall with my arms above my head trying to breathe and withstand the pain.  We called my mom and I could barely get a few words out at a time.  I think this was caused because I slept on the floor at a friends.  This has happened before at a friends house when the air first got really humid and hot.  I had the same symptoms and could not breathe with chest pain on the right side.  My mom had me put ice on it and stay close to a freezer or ac unit to breathe in cold air.  That episode lasted about 2.5 hours.  I also have mild asthma and have had it since I was born.  I tried my inhaler, but it did not help.