Chest pain

[mlculberton]

I am a healthy 23 year old & currently staying In France. It was a Thursday and I started having some chest pain. It was concentrated in the middle of my chest, and was a burning, stinging, stabbing type of pain. Friday I vomited all day & a doctor put me on a antibiotic. I rested all weekend, and felt a little more normal come monday. Yet I am still having a really bad chest pain above my right breast. My right arm is also tingling as well as of today. Well I went and got a chest x-ray and it came out normal. I'm not sure what my next step should be? Should I be worried? I have abour two more days left of antibiotics left. I don't have any other symptoms. Except I am a little light headed. The chest pain is the main problem, and concern. My Dad died of hypertension heart disease two years ago, and besides that no other illness' run in my family. I do have a tooth that is starting to ache. Its always kinda hurt, and I had a dentist look at it three months ago, and he said it was fine. I had a root canal done on it about 10 years ago, and not the gums underneath the cap of it are bruised. I'm suppose to get it looked at when I am back in the states. Just trying to figure out what is best to do now about this pain? Any thoughts?

[mammo]

It doesn't appear that any tests were done on your heart, which happens often when young people present with chest pains.  I would see a cardiologist and tell him you want to rule out any heart problems.  I have a friend who was young and went to the ER telling them she felt she was having a heart attack.  They told her she was too young and thin to have heart problems, she suffered a major heart attack while in the waiting room.