heartburn in chest and back

Hello, I have lived for several yaers now with GERD, I use Nexium 40mg 2 or 3 times a week, it helps me a lot but I often have a pain in beetween my shoulders after meals epecially fried meals. Could this be the same heartburn I feel in my chest after a meal? It always comes from 1 to 2 hours after a meal. it seams to me that Nexium don`t have any affect on this symptom.

i'm having sharp pains in my chest and upper back feels like it's right under my shoulder blades. constant sharp pain feels like somethings in my throat as well. I thought it was heart burn as i suffer from acid refluc but i took a zantac a hour and a half ago and there is no relief.

My question is does anyone know WHY my heartburn pain starts in my upper back, right behind my heart area, and then proceeds to a bad burning sensation in my neck and throat...its very painful and is relieved my antacids, although only for a short period of time, which leaves me taking several doses before all is over. Ive never really questioned it, but today I was at the dr for a routine exam and asked and he said he thinks it is the vagus nerve....but doesnt that cause chest pain...

Go to your local GP he/she will be able to prescribe you some meds and you feel back to you old self in no time hopefully. Like I said I'm not an expert, but I went through something similar.

It hurt to move my neck from side to side, and I had pain in the tips of my elbows and in my chest. I moved into a new apartment almost a month ago, so I think that I might have possibly strained something, but it seems that it wouldn't cause this much of a delayed or chronic issue a month after moving. The doctor diagnosed it as a muscle spasm. It finally calmed down after a few days, and the pain completely subsided within a week. Now, two weeks later, the upper back pain has returned.

I'm 30 weeks and have been getting pains in my chest since yesterday, anyone know what it could be?

I have been experiencing chest pain in my left breast along with back and shoulder pain. It can sometimes last for days on end and is very painful and scary. I have gone to the emergency room twice, the first time I was having a full blown anxiety attack. I was kept there overnight on a heart monitor after having an ekg done. When i saw the cardiologist in the am, he informed me that I have an irregular heartbeat but it was nothing to be alarmed about.

I had fried foods last night and this morning and all day experienced a painful chest and back. It seems I can't relieve myself from this. And how sure am I that it is gas? I feel like I need someone to pound on my back for added relief...

Can hearburn cost pain in my chest, arms and back? I had heart attack 5 months ago- two stents were placed, got clogged 3 months later and in January 2010 I had another stent placed inside those two. The pain never stopped but the doctors seem to think it is not cardiac...I do believe it is cardiac but trying to keep an open mind for all options.

I was wondering if heartburn/indigestion feeling in the center of my chest could be a new symptom of the hyperthyroid i was just diagnosed with. Mostly I have been having trouble with panic attacks but the last couple days I have a burning chest-dead center-kinda like heartburn......any clues? Is hyperthyroid known to have heartburn as a symptom as well as all the other lovely symptoms I have been having??? THanks!!!!

also i have noticed i have been experiencing some tightness in my chest and finding it hard to take a deep breath at times, i do have an anxiety disorder that i take klonopin for which seem to help but at other times not. i am wondering is the pain in my leg possiblly related to my shortness of breath and pain which seems to be smack in the centre of my chest, sometimes it feels like heart burn other times tightness and last night my chest was just pouunding so hard i was very concerned.

I am 7 weeks pregnant with my first child and I have this uneasy feeling in my chest. Right at my breastbone. It's like a tightness. I looked it up and I guess it might be heartburn? But I have it all the time. Anyone else have that feeling?

Yea. Its usually in my chest, stomach, lower and upper back. Its horrible. I've taken tums so much that they've quit working. And I was like you, even had it bad before I got pregnant. And it gets so bad that I can't even sit down comfortably.

Then I took a nexium 40mg and that didnt work. I have pains pretty bad in chest an back, it even hurts to breath sometimes, it's been like this for 19hrs. What do I do?

He is highly stressed at work and he said two days after having a very stressful morning he started getting tingling in his fingers and also his toes (this was the first time in toes) and his heart started hurting. I have a hard time relating heartburn to stress. How is that possible for someone to have heartburn and indigestion from stress? It started overnight and been going on for the past two months. He gets heartburn most of the time when he is home and not stressed.

It started earlier today around 5 I get a sharp pain all across my chest and into the top part of my back. It hurts to breathe when this happens and it feels like I have a knot in my throat. I'm 28 weeks pregnant and not sure if its just heartburn. But it doesn't feel like heartburn at all. This is way more painful and it comes and goes. Has anyone had this before?!?!

i just drink some cold water and lay down on my side, try to take slow breathes, and dont give yourself an anxiety attack, lol. i freak out and then my anxiety kicks in and blahh. Keep calm :) do you have a 24 hr nurse you can call?

I have been having a dull aching pain in my chest mainly left side, back pain and some occasional arm pain. I do have GERD and had my gallbladder out in 2003. I saw my doc and she thinks its just a flare up of GERDs but has set me up to have a stress echo. I am driving myself nuts wondering is the heart related, am i ignoring signs of a heart condition. My doc doesnt seem so worried but i have small children and cant help but wonder am i taking the right measures promptly.

Twice in last two months it has happened after periods, i experience shortness of breath like claustrophobic, i do not inhale enough air and run outside in open place to breath heavily. I feel pressure and tightness in the chest like something is stuck in there, accompanied by heartburn. Most of the time this heartburn feeling comes at night. I lose any urge to eat and feel nausea for three to four days and feel suffocation all the time. Last time i felt like i am going to pass out.

I am 19 weeks and i have a burning sensation in my upper chest and throat for the last few days does anyone know if this is normal or what it is?

So all day yesterday I had this weird feeling like trapped air in my chest and it was making me feel so nauseous and I kept burping. Last night I had severe heartburn which wasn't a surprise because I had eaten ravioli for dinner. Then all day today I've still had that feeling of tightness in my chest. I feel like I need burp but I can't, whenever I eat or drink it hurts alot like as if there isn't enough room food or water to go down.

It's been 3 1/2 months since my lap Nissen redo. The first one eliminated heartburn and Barrett's esophagus but the wrap slipped. So back in June, I had a redo. Everything went fine except I have some left chest pain and left upper back pain. Can someone tell me what's going on? When will it resolve? This discussion is related to <a href='/posts/show/235099'>back pain after laparoscopic nissen fundoplication</a>.

d feel like someone was sitting on my chest.. she told me it was heartburn and told me to take meds for it.. I've never really had heartburn so I wasn't sure if she was right or not.. I didn't take any medicine or anything and it doesn't happen as often now I'm 32 weeks..

I have been suffering from sharp pains in my back. It starts on the right side then moves to my chest....under my right breast then to my entire back. It feels like I need to burp, or get the gas out the other end but it hurts too much to do so. I feel nauseated and have problems sleeping. Could this be from digestion? This pain can last for several hours. What can I do to stop this from happening? What is happening to me? It scares me.

Heartburn is a painful, burning feeling in the chest that radiates toward the neck or back. Heartburn is caused by stomach acid rising into the esophagus and may be a symptom of GERD. A person can have symptoms of both indigestion and heartburn. How is your diet? With your type of pain, I would suppliment your diet with an antacid like Prilosec and see if that doesn't help.

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