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Pinching pain in chest. Help!

Hello. Im a 18 year old boy ,very active, good weight. The past few weeks i have been having some chest discomfort and/or small pinching pain in chest ,usually when im sitting but even before sleep,so my body is at rest. Sometimes a sudden shortness of breath happens accompanied with a panic attack. I get the feeling of dying (panic attack). I did a chest x ray , ecg, ekg, blood tests, blood presure test, stethoscope test. All turned out fine. So what is the problem? Angina? Anxiety?
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The doctors that did the tests said i was fine and that it could be either a stress thing or excesive exercise. But sometimes i feel like something might be wrong, something that the tests couldnt identify.
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Hello young man.  When you had all those tests, what did the doctors tell you?  Did they explain what the pinching pains in your chest could be?  You say yourself that you get panic attacks, and as you are on the anxiety forum I guess you may have been told that your physical symptoms are due to anxiety.  Is that right?  Do you feel it could be a physical problem, and it has not been found?

I am sure that if you have a problem the doctors would have told you.  You say all turned out fine, so that must be a relief.  You could be suffering from anxiety, as it can cause many physical aches and pains.  If you feel you still do not know what is wrong, ask your doctor.  Anxiety is a very difficult thing to diagnose sometimes, and many of us have had numerous testsd, but nothing found, like you.

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