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Shooting dull pain (3 of 10) in head and (sometimes) in chest (2 of 10) at the same time; however, it's intermittent?

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Pain head and chest: there is considerable number of potential causes of pain in the head and chest that, it is important to find if there other symptoms like fever, and weather it is a long term or new onset pain, trauma, cough or shortness of breath, pounding heart, pain that is related to breathing or difficulty in moving the neck I suggest medical review to work to find the cause if this intermittent

Answered 7/10/2018

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Dr. Rebecca Gliksman answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Pain in Head/ chest: May be GI or cardiac or nerves consider reflux/GERD with or without H pylori or pericarditis, Mitral valve prolapse or other cardiac issues ( check echocardiogram) , or cervical disc disease/ nerve impingement. rarely Lyme disease or autoimmune. or vascular anomaly f/u w/ doc

Answered 7/10/2018

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