What Causes Sharp Pains In Breast When Under Stress?

Posted on Wed, 3 Sep 2014

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Question : my wife is having sharp pains in her left breast. About 5 minutes apart. She is under a lot of stress with her mother in a nursing home and death is immenent

Answered by Dr. Anshul Varshney (15 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Get ECG.

Detailed Answer:
Dear Friend.
Welcome to HCM. I am Dr Anshul Varshney. I understand your concern.
I also understand that under how much stress she must be in this situation. Usually atypical chest pains occur due to anxiety. But at age of 67 years we should always rule out any cardiac chest pain as stress can precipitate a heart attack.
My advise for you to get her an ECG to be sure this is not cardiac chest pain.
Also give her a combination of Pantoprazole and Domperidone a single dose, if this pain Is due to acidity this would get relieved.
But please get an ECG to be sure.
If you have any further query please ask me.
Stay Healthy.

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar