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A member asked:

Upper chest pain left side and back. short of breath walking and layin. been to er many times as well as gp. no one seems concerned what could it be?

4 doctors weighed in across 2 answers

Needs work up: The symptoms if persistent needs work up specifically with a chest xray and an echocardiogram.

Dr Chuu agreed

Answered 2/4/2021

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Dr. David Lipkin answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Consultation advised: Your symptoms may be due to various causes. Apparently nothing serious was seen on your trips to the ER. For more helpful advice you may want to consider a Virtual Consultation at Health Tap. This can be done by live video or voice or by an InBox Text consultation. For your problem a live text consultation not advised. For InBox best to be available to respond to Dr's questions. Upload full Hx

Dr Rao agreed

Answered 9/16/2015

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