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Hi, ive just woke up with chest pain in my left side, tried turning over several times but the pain was like a sharp pain everytime i tried. ?

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Chest pain: If you are a young guy, with no family history and relatively healthy the risk of this being heart is low. In addition if it is reproducible with movement you are more than likely facing musculoskeletal.

Answered 3/1/2017

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