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Chest Pain comes and goes.

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.
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Am 21 and female and am curious about chest pains that I've been having recently. Its kind of a dull ache but sometimes comes with a little sharp pain but nothing unbearable. I also then couldn't swallow properly like there was a lump in the back of my throat, and yesterday morning woke up and was dizzy and had blurred vision. Ive also been urinating a lot more than before. This has been going of for just over 2 weeks. I did what most people do and looked my symptoms up on the internet, even though I know this was a bad idea and I've made myself believe in the worst, in that I possibly could have cancer. For the last 2 weeks Ive been losing sleep thinking about it, crying for no apparent reason, sweating and having constant fear. I then read that this could all be caused by anxiety, now I really want to believe its anxiety rather than cancer, but am terrified to go doctors and get it checked out incase he says those words that none of us want to hear. I kept rereading on the internet and there was also a possible option of being pregnant.

Does anyone else feel like this??????????????????????
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I'm only 11 yet I get chest pains too. I tell my mom that I think I have heartburn but she says I'm too young. I have it right now and it hurts dearly. I haven't went to a doctor and it comes more often then not.
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U have gallstones I bet
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Its gallstones
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I'm 30 yr old male and have had this same problem for 9 years now doctors can not tell me whats wrong and I'm sick of felling this pain
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Hi when i was 17 i started having chest pains on the right side one day the pain stayed and went down my arm when i went to the  dr they did a EKG  nothing was wronge so they told me i pulled a muscle well i went and got a Physical done well cam back i had imflamation in my lungs after awhile i wasnt hurting at all i went smoking for a year im 19 now and i  just starting bak 3 months ago now the left and the right hurt not all the time just comes and goes but i know what it is and i still have some of the meds from last time go to ur dr and tell them u wont to get ur lungs checked  if u dnt smoke u could get it just by being around smoke like a fire wood heaters or anyone else that smokes
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