What can cause a sharp pain either in my chest or right below it?

You should see a GI Doctor to check your bowel and stomach and I would suggest you also see a cardiologist ASAP, in case your having anxiety related chest pains or a Hearts issue you need medication for! Please see those two Doctors , you can get a referral if needed from you primary if they don't know these concerns, tell them first!
Best wishes!

@emilystewart30

I hope you see a doctor as soon as possible!

I do hope and pray that by this time, your problem has been resolved. Has it? I was going to suggest a stomach ulcer ( I had that experience) Or a stoolball - but since you say it is in the center that wouldn't be it - unless it was referred pain. Do let us know that you're okay.... you're much too young to keep hurting like that.

@valleylil Hi, thank you for replying! I’m not really having chest pain like I was before (early 2025), but at times I’ve still had a pain maybe near my sternum in the center of me. I’ve felt somewhat better and it seems like most days I haven’t had a pain, but there’s been days I still feel a similar way. Sometimes it seems mental and like I notice it more if I’m thinking about it or stressed, but there’s been times it’s felt physical and like there’s more to it than something mentally going on

I notice that twice you referred. I believe, to “needing rest”; or once that you felt tired and wanted to lie down, but didn’t know if in either case you would fall into “a deep sleep”. You wisely seem acutely aware of “resting” which does not necessarily mean “sleeping”. You could be mowing a lawn (not motorized), for 1/2 an hour and decide you need to rest. You need a break. But you realize that a restorative “deep sleep” is what you are seeking. No doctor, I take the lazy man’s approach and Google “can insufficient sleep cause chest pain”? What d’ya know. Several articles, not all AI, assert so. Always consider the source of the info and ask yourself what they’re selling, of course. Still it seems that a “rest sleep” won’t bring you down to the REM state when our bodies do a make-over and damage repair if any. We hear a lot about sleep hygiene. I’d have to deprive myself to be hygienic, and I think sleeping pills aren’t natural. You seem like a young, no-lying-around man. About the
chest issues. at least consider a quick Google. Even “rest vs deep sleep” yields opinions. Good luck to you, and consider the source. 💤. 🛏️

Definitely see a GI doctor. It sounds like pancreatic pain. Or gallbladder issues. Neither are anything to wait to have checked.

@hopeseeker22 hi, thank you for responding. I’ll look that up. I spend a lot of time sitting around actually and I’ve been living a sedentary life. My habits aren’t good when it comes to sleeping/resting/being in bed, and I’ve been constantly on my phone at night and first thing when I wake up, and that hasn’t helped at all. I need to try and have better habits

@gransan42 I need to see a doctor and address what I’ve been feeling, I agree with that. I have an appointment this month with a doctor but I need to see about seeing a GI doctor. Could pancreatic pain/gallbladder issues come and go for over a year? At times I’ve wondered if maybe it could be what you mentioned, like a pancreatic or gallbladder issue.

@emilystewart30
Such kind words. Thank you. I have HORRIBLE “sleep hygiene”, may I say. I’ve managed somehow to switch day and night. It’s 1:00 AM here, and I’m alert. But daytime? Fatigued, no ambition, do little. Worst of all I don’t even walk for exercise. And some meds I must take probably contribute to being like this. Probably depressed. So many excuses. Your reply was a gift. I think I’ll try again. Let’s both. Be well! 💥

@hopeseeker22 sometimes I’ve felt that way too, like at night I feel awake and like I want to be tired but I’m either not or distracting myself from being tired by being on my phone. I haven’t been walking either, but should start again.