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Heartburn Under Left Breast
I have sharp pains in chest just behind breast muscle?
I woke up this morning with a sporadic ache in my chest just under the left breast muscle. I'd be afraid that it was a heart attack but my arm is fine, my breath is even, and I'm not really sweating or anything like that. Still If eel a lot of pressure on my chest and I CAN NOT AFFORD to go to a doctors. I have no insurance and it costs 135 just to get my teeth cleaned. God knows how much any real test costs.
Anyhow, is the ache that resembles a bruised arm after being punched...could it just be heartburn?
I get those sometimes and they are very painful and annoying to get.
I saw my doctor about it and the conclusion was it was one of the following:
1) Gas (try lightly pounding your chest to push the gas out)
2) Muscle spasm (try stretching in the morning and evening).
3) Tension in your back causing constriction and your feeling the blood being pumped through the tension area (similar if you were to hold your wrist tight to restrict blood flow, you feel your blood pump through).
He assured me it wasn't a heart attack (your heart is in fact below and to the right of your left breast).
It may even be heartburn (I get that sometimes too), grab a box of Zantac 75 from Wal-Mart and take 1 a day.
Possible Reasons For Left Side And Breast Pain
Pain in the left side of the body can be a sign of inflammation in one of the organ located there. While we think about pain in one’s breast of woman, the disease of breast cancer comes to mind, it does not choose the side it grows on. If pain is felt in the left side of the breast, it may be signify something else other than cancer.
The left side of the body has organs such as the lower end of the heart, the left lung, the stomach, part of the liver, the pancreas, the adrenal glands, spleen, parts of small and large intestines, left kidney and left side of reproductive organs, which are the left ovary and the left fallopian tube with part of the uterus in women and left testicle in men.
Pain in the left side will never point to appendicitis unless a person has situs inversus totalis. It means that it could be inflammation of the stomach, left lung, spleen, left kidney, ovary or the left side of the intestines.
Lower end of the heart is located on the left side of our chest. The heart beats making a diastolic pressure pumping blood from the lowest part. This is the reason; heart beat is always sensed on the left breast. Acid reflux is one cause feeling pain in the left breast, it most known as heartburn. It gives a painful burning sensation in the esophagus which is just below our breastbone. This burning sensation can rise upwards to the throat, neck or jaw. A major symptom of gastroesophageal reflux disease is heartburn. Acid reflux is also identified as one of the causes of chronic cough and may even imitate asthma.
Pain in the left side of the body can be because of pancreatitis, stomach ulcer or ovulation pain. Pancreatitis is a common health problem having two types which are acute and chronic. In acute pancreatitis, the pain is sharp, short-lived and mostly severe. The pain can spread to the back or below the left shoulder blade. It is mainly caused by alcoholism, gallstones and gallbladder disease. On the other hand, chronic pancreatitis is a result of extended alcohol abuse.
Heartburn does not affect the heart in any way despite its name. This name is given because of the reason that the burning sensation is felt more intensely right where the heart should be. However, this pain is just referred from the actual location which is at the entrance to the stomach. Alternative treatments of heartburn do not require intake of drugs or restrictive diet but raising one’s sleeping bed at a slight angle so that the head is raised slightly higher than the feet. This angle prevents gastric acid from rising into the esophagus and causing the pain.
Pain in the left side can also be a sign of stomach ulcer. The stomach may have a hole in the lining of or the duodenum. Usual common symptoms of peptic ulcer are severe burning pain and discomfort in the abdominal area, nausea, vomiting food or blood and belching. Gastric ulcer creates pain that is usually experienced shortly after meals, while in duodenal ulcer gives pain that is experienced between meals or when the stomach is empty. The pain decreases by taking antacids. Pain is generated from the ovulation of women when they do it once a month. This pain is called ovulation pain and it is a lower-abdominal pain. If pain increases then it is always better to go to the doctor and have a complete check-up.
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