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I am having pain on my sternum bone. so can you help me.. i was hit by a ball on my chest while playing football.. but it was few years back.

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Your are very young: pain in the sternum does not mean cardiac disease, most likely it is due to costochondritis, a condition related with the sternum and the cartilages of the ribs, some advil for few days (2 to 3 days) must be enough to relief it. Don't panic if it recurrent, that is very frequent

Answered 11/18/2017

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