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Chest pain

Hi,

I am 27 years and over the last year and a half I have been experiencing this sharp pain in what feels like the left hand side of my heart. It is approximately half way up my rib cage on the left hand side and  about an hour and a half to two hours later I started to get a really heavy slow heart beat. Is anyone able to tell me what this could be??

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Hi, thank you, sorry I didn't really describe it very well. The feeling is very localised and it feels like some has the area in there hand squeezing it. It has now been this way for two and a half days. It has not got any worse or any better, it's is just lingering.

Thank you for replying
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Hey did you ever figure this out? I think I have been having the same problem for several months now, and it's really scaring me.
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The left side of your heart is also the right side of your left lung, which is susceptible to stabs of pain. The heart itself doesn't have any pain sensors so heart pain is felt in the surrounding areas, usually as an ache or pressure instead of stab sensation.

But that doesn't mean you can ignore it, because for every rule there is an exception and you don't want a heart problem to catch you by surprise.
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