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A member asked:
Sleep on my stomach 2 nights now woke up with chest pain when i breath in. took tums (calcium carbonate) felt better. kinda scary ???? i'm overweight &high bp
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No not scary: this is probably musculoskeletal pain coming from your ribs and the muscles in between them. If this only occurs when you fall asleep on your stomach, the odds of it being cardiac in nature quite low.
Answered 3/17/2017
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