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

Since around maybe September or October last year, I started having chest pain or pain somewhere below my chest. A few months before that during the summer, I felt a feeling of fullness right under my chest. The chest pain would come and go, but it’s still been coming and going four months later. Sometimes the pain radiates to my back, or it feels like the pain is in the same place on my front side as my back side, almost like if there was a line going through me, it’d connect the pain on my frontside and back. It seems like there’s days when I feel the pain and eventually I kind of get my mind of it, but when I feel the pain it worries me and I feel like something is really wrong.

Maybe around noon or so today, I felt the pain in my chest. Maybe half hour or an hour after feeling the pain, I started feeling a fullness right under my chest or kind of near my ribs. At times it’s felt like there’s pain or pressure near my sternum. I’ve also been constipated and I wonder if that has anything to do with this.

Do I need to go to the hospital for this though or go somewhere urgently? I’m feeling somewhat better now, but it scared me having the chest pain. This has happened before in the past and eventually has gotten better, but it hasn’t completely gone away. I have a doctors appointment this Thursday, but I don’t know if I need to do something sooner.

If you put a patch on the place that hurts when you apply pressure- lidocaine, or capcaisin, is there improvement? I also use Ben Gay or BioFreeze.

Hope you talk to a doctor soon!

I’m sorry to hear that. Did the pain come and go?

Yes I've gone low fat, try for under 4 g per meal, eat several little meals,, breakfast today ,3 oz of smoothie, nonfat Greek yogurt, applesauce,banana almond milk...then divided onto 3 portions.. My pancreas ,stomach just let me know I've put something in it with twinges on my upper left quadrant!!

Marloa-
You might want to check into the ingredients in that almond milk.

No, I haven’t had anything ruled out. I haven’t talked to a doctor about it yet but I have an appointment this week

Since around maybe September or October last year, I started having chest pain or pain somewhere below my chest. A few months before that during the summer, I felt a feeling of fullness right under my chest. The chest pain would come and go, but it’s still been coming and going four months later. Sometimes the pain radiates to my back, or it feels like the pain is in the same place on my front side as my back side, almost like if there was a line going through me, it’d connect the pain on my frontside and back. It seems like there’s days when I feel the pain and eventually I kind of get my mind of it, but when I feel the pain it worries me and I feel like something is really wrong.

Maybe around noon or so today, I felt the pain in my chest. Maybe half hour or an hour after feeling the pain, I started feeling a fullness right under my chest or kind of near my ribs. At times it’s felt like there’s pain or pressure near my sternum. I’ve also been constipated and I wonder if that has anything to do with this.

Do I need to go to the hospital for this though or go somewhere urgently? I’m feeling somewhat better now, but it scared me having the chest pain. This has happened before in the past and eventually has gotten better, but it hasn’t completely gone away. I have a doctors appointment this Thursday, but I don’t know if I need to do something sooner.

Hello, Emily,
Just FYI, I have chronic constipation and occasionally have chest pain in the middle of my chest below the Xiphoid Process, at bottom of rib cage. One time it got so bad with squeezing pressure in my chest that my breath got shallow and it was difficult to swallow. I went to the ER, they did a cardiac catheterization, determined the heart was not the problem, and said it was a gastric problem. They gave me a prescription for nitroglycerin tablets, which I have rarely taken. I am doing better managing the constipation. Good Luck to you!

It feels like it’s in the center. Sometimes it doesn’t really feel like chest pain and like it’s lower, but other times it feels like it’s near my chest. Sometimes it’ll radiate to my back, and it’s almost like at times it’s in the same place on my front side as it is in my back.

Hi I Been having this and none heart related did you ever find out what it was ???