Chest pain young people
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I have been having horrible chest pain for four years now and it feels like knives stabbing into my chest. At first it was only on my left side and would last a couple of seconds to an hour. Now it has obviously gotten much worse at will last up to two days at a time, and ocassionally on my right side as well. When this happens I generally have a pain that is also in my left shoulder - same feeling just like a knife stabbing me.
People often times refer to themselves having chest pain because of the thumping of premature beats; young people, teens and children make that mistake a lot. You are actually too young to be having true heart related chest pains because it takes at least 20+ years to build up enough plague in the heart vessels to cause chest pains due to a lack of blood flow.
Hello i am a 13 year old male. I get chest pain and get out of breath easily when i wake up, stand up, walk, or run. I have been to a pediatric cardiologist and i had an ekg an ultrasound and a stress test. they all came up normal. He says it has something to do with hormones or muscles. Your thoughts? And what can i do to make it better?
Thanks alot.
I get chest pain everytime I yell or raise my voice. Since the first time, I have been seen and told that I have a LBBB on my EKG. Doctors ruled out any cardiac issues...through a nuclear stress test, and diagnosed me w/anxiety. I still get the chest pains, especially when I am yelling or upset. I'm concerned that something could have been missed. Is this LBBB causing these pains? Did I cause the LBBB when I was yelling? Will the LBBB ever go away?
I am 20 years old and have been experiencing heart palpitations for the last several months. along with these palpitations are a mild chest pain in my left pec and sometimes in my back that almost can be described as tight muscle. I went to a doctor who gave me an ecg and found everything normal, however my heart didnt skip a beat during it.
im 16 and i get frequent heart pain in the left side of my chest... my hands shiver and they get sweaty... my heart beats so loud i can hear it and hurts alot... its hard to catch my breath... it feels like a heavy weight is set on my chest... i dont know what i have but do tell me if u know what it could be... is it anything serious? and how should i take care of it?
I don't smoke. I eat decently. I exercise. I don't have history of cancer in my family. But, I have a chest pain. It's severe, sometimes. It hurts right between my breast, especially when I breathe deeply (or it worsens when I do.) and when I press it, or put pressure there. Sometimes the pain actually moves to be more on my breast, or it will be right below, on my ribcage. Any ideas of what could be going on?
Do go ahead with the heart monitor. If young people never had heart problems then we'd never need pediatric cardiologists. I know a young girl who had arrhythmias in her early teens. She ended up having an ablation and is doing fine. Another friend of mine in her early 30's passed out at the wheel of her car. They discovered she had heart failure and she is now the proud owner of an ICD. So stuff happens.
If your heart only acts up once a week or so, a 24 hour monitor may not catch it.
Also, there are only a couple of forms of heart disease that would cause true chest pains in young people and believe me, you would know there was a problem there because the heart disease would have had to progress to such a degree that your daughter would not be able to function on a daily basis; walking would cause chest pain that doesn't let up with rest. She would never be able to keep up with her friends and hanging out at the mall would be a nightmare for her.
it is as if a vise is closing around the chest. The other symptoms are pain in the left arm and pain even in the neck area to raised pulse, sweating and dizziness these all can be an anxiety attack as well. But the pain in the chest like a steel band is being tightened seems to be the deciding factor that speaks of a heart attack.Im not sure of the intensity of your pain.
Two weeks ago, I was at my Brazilian Jiu Jitsu class when I noticed that I had pretty significant pain in my chest. Thankfully, I went to the ED where I was found to have some EKG changes and I had bumped by cardiac enzymes. I underwent a cath the next morning where I was found to have 80% stenosis in my LAD and otherwise no disease. A drug eluting stent was placed and I have been doing relatively well since (physically great - psychologically not so much...).
Pleuritis and Pulmonary embolism are other possibilities causing shortness of breath with chest pain. A CT scan of the chest can rule out both. Another possibility that can explain the pain is pericarditis. It causes chest pain aggravated by laughing yawning and deep breathing and also causes radiation of pain to arms. Again an EKG, heat echo and chest X-ray is required.
Do discuss this with your doctor and get yourself examined as a confirmed diagnosis is not possible on net. Take care!
I have been having chest pains over the past couple of hours. It has been a steady pain....(7-7.5 on a scale of 1-10)... I've had a little bit of pain in my shoulder as well...What could be causing this? I am 5'8" and I weigh 260. I do have high blood pressure and asthma, (i take Lisinopril and Albuterol for those). My BP has still been running high, although I was just switched to Lisinopril from Propranolol 4 days ago. Should I go to the ER?
I work in a high stress job, I have two kids, I am going to be 27 in a couple days and I am pretty healthy. So to me this is scary. Usually I can contribute chest pain to my asthma, having it for years I have always known when an attack was going to happen.
Well last night about 1 am I had gone into the living room, which has tile floors and it was pretty cold, to get my daughter something off the tv.
Hey all. I'm 34 yrs old and I am overweight BMI 40. I have been having chest pain on my left side. It also shoots to my left armpit, side of left breast and I have numbness and tightness down my forearm into my hand. I went to urgent care on Friday and all I got was a high WBC indicating I have an infection somewhere! So I went to the ER and that dr, didn't seem to worried at all. Now it's Sunday and I still have pain tightness and heaviness.
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