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16 yr old having chest pains and heart attack symtoms

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ally36798
ally36798

I am 16yrs old and for about 6 months I have had chest pain with other heart attack symtomes including sore left arm, and shortness of breath. I comes and goes and even went away for about a month. I seems to happen more when I am stresses. Im having finals week right now and my symtomes are way worse. I feel short of breath and randomly have shap pain in chest on either side (never in the middle, mostly left side). I also once had a sore jaw that went away in a minnute. Last night I was falling asleep when I felt like somthing was squeeezing my heart. It went away in less then 5 secounds but i was having trouble breathing afterward. I was wondering if im having heart issues or anxiety

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  • ben32668
    ben32668 ally36798

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    Hi ally, today I had one of these symptoms when I woke up. I have not had them for a long time and this is the first time it had happened in a long time and I a scared a bit. Please help me

  • ben32668
    ben32668 ally36798

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    I also had arm pain but it was at the wrist and it was not that painful but I know something is wrong so please help me 
  • cher42845
    cher42845 ally36798

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    Is there a childerns hospital thye can take you to so that a specialist can check you out. At 14 I was having symptoms and our GP did  not think it was anything but the school nurse insisted my parents take me to the Childerns Hospital. It turned out I had developed a heart Murmur. I was so glad she insisted.  It is always best to be safe and not sorry.
  • luis23657
    luis23657 ally36798

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    I suffer through the same problems, I have a sore left arm the pain radiates from my tricep down to my elbow , forearm and tip of my ring finger. On the left side of my chest I do feel pain along with my left arm pain and sometimes when I am laying down I do feel  a sensation as if my heart were being squeezed but it generally lasts a few seconds. Just like you I am also 16 and am pretty healthy I try to maintain a healthy diet and I don’t have a family history of heart disease at all. I have gotten an echocardiogram and an EKG by a pediatric cardiologist and according to him he is 100% sure that there is nothing going on with my heart but the pain is still there, when I excersie I get shortness of breath and blurry vision when running for short periods of time😕.  I don’t know if it’s anxiety or an actual heart problem.

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