Pain To The Chest

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Since about two weeks ago I got a light pain on the chest. What could it be? I hope this is nothing serious.

If there's something stressing you-for some reason-, it could be that. High amounts of stress can make you feel that pain in the chest.

Go to your doctor - as soon as possible.

It could be indigestion, a heart problem, a muscular problem, a back problem a psychological problem. You should always go and seek medical advice in person that is the only way to obtain a diagnosis in your best interest.

It might also be allergies.

There are some places where a stab wound might be a reasonably likely cause.

I just recently recovered from a virus going around that causes chest pain. it is called Bornholm disease and the only treatment is over the counter ibuprofen and rest.

So, yesterday I've been able to see a doctor. She think that it's simply a muscular pain form a bad movement. The think is I'm not sure to have given the right answers to their questions, and today the pain was worst while it's supposed to get better. So overall I'm rather afraid...

When you mention chest pain, a doctor will usually check out your heart whether you think it could be involved or not. I'm sure she listened to your heart and checked your pulse. Did she do labwork, did she do an EKG, other tests? Those tests would most likely show if you had a heart problem.

There are many things that can cause pain in the chest. The heart is one of the worst, so it's what people automatically think of. It's the scariest. Most of the time in otherwise healthy, young people who aren't at risk for heart problems, it's something else entirely. Your chest area is full of muscles that you use constantly. You can strain one without knowing it and this can cause pain. Congestion or infection in your lungs can cause pain, and that can be from as little as a cold at times. You have other organs in that area too that can cause referred pain felt there that can feel like it's originating there.

I would think that if a young healthy person developed sudden mild chest pain with no other symptoms, if it were a heart problem you would probably already know it by now and be in the hospital. While there is a chance it's something, I would believe your doctor and try not to dwell on it. The more you worry, the more your muscles tense up including the one you strained to cause the pain, so you can feel it more and then think it's something bad so you worry more, etc.

I have stress pains all over, including my chest

I've had 3 ECG's within the past year and none of them brought up any abnormalities, just that I'm stressed and my muscles get all tensed up. I haven't had to get blood work either, the doctor's at the hospital and even my own family doctor said I don't need to get it done. I've had an ultrasound too on my entire abdomen and nothing was wrong. It's all basically in my head, which is the hardest thing to come to terms with. I'm going to the doctor's again this week, hopefully to get onto some medication to relax my muscles.

I once had a frequently and often constant low-level chest pain for several weeks. I thought it was muscular / skeletal and ignored it.

Until one day I had a heart attack.

Turns out the pain was caused by a blood clot. Left undiagnosed and treated, it caused the heart attack. A simple EKG would have detected the clot early and perhaps it could have been treated medically instead of surgically.