Please help!!! I have pain under my left breast?
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Hello, I have this sharp chest pain on my left side under my breast. When it first started 2 months ago it came after I had shortness of breath, sweating, feeling of vomit, dizziness, near fainting, and a racing heart. I went to the ER they did an EKG it came back normal and then sent me home. Went to a walk-in clinic two days later for the same thing they ran a blood test all came back normal. Now ever since this happened I have had this pain on my left side under my breast that started out dull but has now gotten really sharp and always there. It gets worse when I twist left or right, take a deep breath and when moving to a different position, stretching and lying on my left side is painful too. The pain goes from the center of my chest down underneath my left breast. Sometimes it almost feels as if something is moving almost like a contraction. There will be this intense squeeze and release which when that happens stops me in my tracks because it is extremely painful. Please help!!
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@enddydd Hello, cardiac pain can't be duplicated by movement (such as twisting of the torso) or breathing in. Most often this is caused, instead, by either inflammation of the cartilage between the ribs (costochondritis), but sometimes is also caused by chest wall irritation, inflammation of the pleura (the lining between the lungs and the chest wall), or of the chest wall muscles themselves. Since you also describe a sensation of a painful contraction, which would suggest a possible muscle spasm. Otherwise, it is most likely costochondritis. In any of these cases. You may require some prescription version or another prescription medication that does the same thing, only more powerful. It doesn't sound remotely like a heart-related problem.