A member asked:

What can you do to the difference between heart issues and muscle issues? pain under left breast, armpit, above breast and shoulder for days.

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Dr. Irving Harper answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Manage right away: If you are having muscle issues, you have time to get that figured out. If it is your heart, damage that may be permanent is occuring as we speak. Heart disease isvthe number 1 killer of women because it is underdiagnosed so much and wonen sometimes hesitate to get proper attn. Your doc can irder a stat, (emergency) blood test that alab can do to differentiate if it is your heart or not. Doit now!

Answered 5/4/2016

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