No one seems to know.. please help

[reincarnatedbeauty]

  I am 24 years old, 116lbs, 5'6'' and pretty active.
My Mother and Grandmother passed away peacefully in their sleep due to heart failure and I'm terrified that it will happen to me too. My Mother was only 39.. My Grandma was in her 60's.

I have seen a Heart Specialist in the past and he has told me on every occasion that I am fine.. I only have a trivial murmur with minimal leakage..

My question is this.. How do I know when the chest pains I get are heart related or something else?
I have chest pains all the time.. I've been so freaked out and in pain from them that I've gone to the ER at least four times for it in the past. Here are my symptoms:
Pain under my left breast, sharp pain when I breathe in, burping, stomach ache.. and the pain has become a regular part of my life. Every time I've gone to the ER they've performed tests (EKG etc) and the results show nothing wrong with my heart. I had a colonoscopy to rule out anything cancerous.. and again my results were great.  I'm going crazy now.. I'm assuming it's my stomach that is causing me to be in discomfort.. but I don't understand why it's only on my left side that I feel that extreme pain.. it's too hard for me to ignore it.. and everything I've done to help only temporarily solves it. I don't want to rely on antacids.. I take Papaya Enzymes and my diet is amazing. I take pretty darn good care of myself.. so what else can I do?

[ciqala]

MarkTPease: It COULD be panic attacks, and even so, panic attacks are completely horrifying to experience, thus minimizing a panic attack without providing advice about it is kind of pointless.

Panic attacks can mimic extreme physical symptoms and can be highly frightening. Most of the time, people never know they are having a panic attack, because they feel so real. If this is the case you suffer from anxiety which needs to be treated with therapy, self awareness, relaxation.
If you have these pains, try this: Tell yourself it is all in your mind, but you have to believe it. Panic attacks, even though they feel real, are not real at all. Ground yourself, relax yourself, and push the pains away by knowing they are a part of your mind being anxious. Breathe Deep.

To me it just sounds like a mix of little things you are making into big things because of worry.
However, it would be good to get an opinion from a doctor about these pains.
They could be something like, indigestion, and even so, you need to rule out the possibilities before you rest your case on it being a panic attack.
Those symptoms are not heart related. They are digestion related, sounds a lot like acid reflux to me, gas, or heart burn. As i said, they sound like little things, nothing to worry about. But get a doctors opinion, because no one here can be sure.

And the sharp chest pains you are worried about, do they sound anything like this?

"The medical term for this occurrence is Precordial Catch Syndrome.
Many people mistakenly believe that they are having a heart attack at the onset of this type of pain. While the pain is strong and located in an area that would seem like the heart, this condition is not a heart attack, nor is it heart related.

Precordial Catch Syndrome (PCS) is the most common cause of recurring chest pain. It is also sometimes known as “a stitch in the side” or “Texidor’s twinge”. It occurs most often in children and teenagers, but does persist into adulthood as well. The pain occurs just under the left nipple, near where you feel the heart beat most strongly on the front of the chest, and comes on very suddenly.

This extremely sharp pain causes a person to not want to move or breathe.This is where the “catch” part of the name is derived. Any movement or breathing only seems to intensify the pain. The pain usually lasts for around 30 seconds to 1 minute before disappearing. Sometimes the pain will suddenly disappear upon taking a strong breath or moving suddenly as well. This can almost feel like a pop of an imaginary bubble.  After the pain is gone, there is usually a dull ache that lingers.

These onsets of pain can occur frequently, sometimes several times a day, and can occur when exercising, resting, or when in virtually any other state"

To shorten the rest and make a long story short, it is not dangerous, and it happens to pretty much everyone.

Your worry, fear is not going to make any physical pain any better anyway. So even if it is something like heart burn or gas, and even the thing i posted above ^, which seems to rest on sporadic panicked breathing, it's going to get worse if you are frightened. It is best to ground yourself at those times, and conquer your fear. Try meditating.

- Sabrina  

[MarkTPease]

You are fine and you are not about to die!  You are suffering from anxiety/panic attacks.  Enjoy life.  Eat well and excercise!   Don't do any funky herbs/vitamins.