Sharp pain in chest/below it: possibly heart related?

Posted by emily @emilystewart30, 4 days ago

I posted in another group about this, and was recommended to post it here too.

I’m in my early 20s. Around last summer I started having a feeling of fullness right under my chest, and sometimes it almost felt like fat being pinched. Last spring/summer I started doing an exercise weekly, and I’m wondering if that started a feeling of fullness. I’ve also been constipated for several years, and am going but feel like I’m not getting everything out. I’ve wondered if I have something in the way like a blockage because sometimes I feel like I need to go more but can’t.

Around September or October last year, I started having what felt like chest pain, and it would radiate to my back at times. I was also really stressed around this time. Either in October, or a later month last year, I started feeling like I had a sharp pain either in my chest or right below it, and it was bad for several days. I think I should’ve gone somewhere to get it looked at, but I didn’t. I started thinking I was better and trying to ignore how I felt, and I didn’t really notice the pain, but I think inside I felt like something was still wrong.

Yesterday morning I was exercising, and after getting home I started having a feeling of sharp pain either in my chest or below my chest somewhere. I didn’t have the pain while working out. I feel like the pain comes and goes, like sometimes I feel okay but other times feel the pain again.

I feel like something’s wrong though, and at times have had a gut feeling like something isn’t right. I had X-rays done this week, and I’ve been hoping that would show something if there is a problem. I also have a doctor’s appointment this month, but it’s until later this month.

Could this be heart related?

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@gloaming

If you are not perimenopausal or fully menopausal, so under....44?...mebbe?...give or take whatever the typical variance is in the female population in general, and you have irregular periods, this suggests a possible hormone/endocrine issue and it might be worth checking it out with your physician.
I'm not diagnosing, just giving examples of what it might be, and of things that bear some investigation and correction if it is warranted...again, see your PCP for that. Cushing's Disease and Grave's Disease. My aim here is to help you to accept that there are known conditions, disorders, diseases, that can be well-managed or even eliminated, and they have names, and that your care providers would probably welcome a chance to put you right.

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I’ve had my hormones checked, and some of them are off.

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Physician or Cardiologist can be the only one to give you the correct answer.

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