Chest Pain comes and goes.

[Shazu]

For the past 6 months, I have had pain in my chest that comes and goes.  It is mostly on the left side of my chest, near the center.  I went to the doctor 3 times.  The first time he did an EKG and a chest x-ray, and did not find any problems.  He said it wes probably heartburn.
The second time I went, I also had some pain in my back, between my spine and shoulder blade, on the left side.  A different doctor there said that I had a pinched nerve and that the pain was radiating into my chest.
When the back pain went away but the chest pain came back, I went a third time to a different doctor in the same office.  She could not find any reason for my pain, did not do any tests but did a quick breast exam.  She did not feel anything out of the ordinary, but when she pressed on by breast it hurt.  This was a day before my period started.  She said maybe it was a pulled muscle.
The pain sometimes feels like it is in the front part of my chest, sometimes my breast hurts also.  My breasts look fine, aside from a small area on the left nipple that seems to be a bit puffy.  I feel better when I lay down, but when I get up I have pain like you feel when you have an injury and you get up from resting.  I have not had any chest trauma.
Could this be merely heartburn?  A pulled muscle?  Or something in my breast?  I have not seen my ob/gyn yet, I am going to call today.

[DrWhoTiger]

Glad to find this thread and, even though it's been ages since someone posted, know that I'm not alone. My husband and I are in Japan for 3 months and, at the end of last month he had to go to China for a week. I had a full blown panic attack the night before he left and since then, have been having episodes. When he got back, I calmed down but, I still have these pains on the left side of my chest. I'm 29, don't smoke, exercise regularly and my only big vice is the two cups of coffee I have a day. I know I have endometriosis on my diaphragm and perhaps my lungs but, I have a feeling the pains Im experiencing are panic related. I tend to feel them more when I'm alone (which is all day during the week while my husband is at work) and at night. I'm taking melatonin to help me sleep at night but, last night it didn't work and I had bad chest pains all night. As is typical with anxiety, you worry about the pain and end up working yourself up and making it worse! I know as soon as we are home I'm going to a doc to see if I can get some help. It's pretty scary being in a foreign country where your knowledge of the language is limited and you feel like you're dying.

[Healthalways]

Yes, I know what you are talking about. Heart beats fast, specially when I am asleep and then wake up with heart pounding. Very scary. Also have been having the chest pain on the left side near center like Shazu. It comes and goes. I know the heart palpitation is from menopause, went tocardiologist, did some tests and nothing was found. Had chest x-ray and it showed some spots. Don't know yet what they are. Afraid to find out. Will have ct scan. Also I feel even afraid sometimes to fall asleep, because of the palpitations. Menopause is not easy.

[Nessie_2013]

WoW! What you described fits me to a T. I started to think I was crazy. The tight chest, shortness of breath, heart palpitations, hard to swallow, tingly feeling... It consumes me. I am more of a homeopathic person but eventually the symptoms kept coming and I got scared. Tried an anti anxiety med... I had a bad reaction to it (celexa). The symptoms are still present and I'm worried that they won't go away. Scares the life out of me. The Doc prescribed me Xanax this time. However, I'm a little apprehensive to take it (do to the horrible reaction I had to the first attempted med).
Any advice on what to do? Any Xanax takers out there? Natural things as well? I'm currently meditating.
Thank you!!

[Chele1971]

I get the same pain in upper middle breast.  I have large breasts and suffer back problems, it happens when my back is out between my shoulder blades just above the ideal place for the bra strap to sit.  It is tender on the breast to touch but as soon as I crack my back back in it goes straight away.  I'm over weight and 42 years old, but the YEARS of back trouble and experiencing referred pain and other affects (feelings of tight rubber band around big tow and sciatic nerve (base of spine)is pinched for example) made me explore this option first.  Get some anti inflammatory s (Ibuprofen) a back rub and some back pain relieving cream/gel, I bet your chest pain is fixed.  Best of luck, it IS a very scary thing.

[ruth31]

I am 28 years old, working women. Right now I am having pain in the right side of my chest (more like under the breast line). Can't take full breath, gets worse each time I breathe. Its not unbearable but still its painful. I just found something call "Pneumothorax" as the result of my symptom. My BP is always low now I just checked its 95/84. Do I need to see a DR.? Is it something serious?  

[aryamsanchez]

I was just diagnosed with this yesterday. I think it's part of what's going on with me but it really is so scary. I was put on Zoloft and anxiety meds too. I can relate to everyone on here. I'm going to try meditation and breathing exercises because I do not want to be on meds. Good luck everyone!!