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.