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I am 25 years old. I have been going through misery for at least 3 months now. I have been experiencing sharp chest pains, painful deep breaths, tight and heavy chest pain. And and constant state of chest pain that seems to never go away. I have had terrible pain in my left arm.Numbness.
I almost never even catch colds and have only had one major sugery nine months ago when I had my son through c-section.
The catch is I have been to ER at least four times, Med express twice, being every time I would go I am told EKG looks fine or that I need an inhaler or that it is Muscle skeletory muscles pulled or that they have emergency patienst so there is really no need for me to stay. One time while there I notice my monitor going off constantly. My heart rate was dropping too low or going too high and when I would doze off to nap while there all day it would drop and snap me awake.
I feel like noone will take me seriously, but you yourself only know your own body and how it feels. Please help??


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A constant and consistant pain in the chest is much more likely to be muscular than heart related. From the sounds of it you are also anxious about this - anxiety and stress can cause all of the symptoms you have been describing. Heart related pain is rarely described as being 'sharp', and is unlikely to be aggravated by breathing. If you have been to the ER four times and have had the work done there, I'd be confident that you're completely fine in that regard.
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Pretty much any chest pain associated with deep breaths is NOT heart-related.

And pretty much any numbness/pain combo should be seen by a neurologist, not a heart specialist.
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