@joanng, there area number of issues that can and do cause chest and other pains. I have several disorders, autoimmune, that bring this on. Most of the pains come from specific organs or tissues. Such as: Pain just above and toward the outside of the left nipple comes from the spleen, usually Gelsolin. between the nipple and the heart may be bronchiectasis, not from the lung itself but from the inflamed tissue around the lung. same on right side. Pain in the center, at the same level, might be be angina, or various heart issues. Slightly above might be hiatal hernia, or esophageal cancers such as Barrett's can become. I have had about 50 minor and major surgical procedures, and every darn one of them left me with pain of some location and type. I get a burning pain in my forehead and scalp because I have the gene for cryoglobulinemia. I have SRTD2 (Short Rib Thoracic Dysplasia Type 2) which makes it hard to breath during exercise, and leaves me with an awful sense of drowning in my own sweat, and pain all over the chest and spine afterward. So get a total gene sequencing, if you can afford it. They are about $300-$400 from Sequencing, Apollo, and many others. Any person with more than one issue should get their genome sorted out, and tell them I sent you. oldkarl