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A 18-year-old female asked:

Why does below my chest in the center hurt sometimes very badly? like hard to breath last for about 30 min max and then just stops.

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Dr. Ayisha Ganianswered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Epigastric pain: The pain described here sound like epigastric pain. We can say possibilities but need more detailed information and exam /testings may be necessary get to the bottom of it. The possibilities are Peptic ulcer, severe gastritis, esophagitis or esophageal ulcer, costochondritis, pleuritis, pericarditis, cholecystitis etc

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A member asked:

I always have chest pains. Very often. I'm only 25. I just had an issue where every time I took a deep breath.. It hurt badly. What's going on?

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A 46-year-old male asked:

Good day , when I stand up I get a pain in the center of my chest half way between upper and lower ribs , its not a sharp pain , more like somebody pressing down on my chest , when I blow my breath out all the way ut also sometimes hurt?

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I was playing basketball, which i do competitively about 4 times a week, when all of the sudden my chest hurt very badly when I took deep breaths?

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A 55-year-old female asked:

Doing arm dips and hit my chest hard on the seat, it took my breath away, now hurts from my chest all the way to my back. Taking aspirin and resting,

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