sharp, throbbing chest pains under the left breast

i'm 16 and this happens to me too, when you breathe deeply it feels like a sharp pain? and it throbs and makes your heart beat really fast..

this has been happening to me to and i am only 14 this has been going on for months nobody seens to no wat it is. i have to know because i can seem to take any more. p.s. thank you for writing this.

I'm 16 and I just started gettin this. It's sharp and painful. I'm fine when I don't move but if I swith positions or take a deep breath or even laugh it or off. Mine is in to usual beat, but it hurts! I read somewhere it coul be from eating junk food, staying in one position or a long time, or no exercise

OMG im 33 and this is ME i get the same thing and have been told THE SAME thing stress anxiety its driving me CRAZY

This is exactly my issue, thank you so MUCH!!!

I'm 20 yrs old and I've got the same pain /symptoms. I just recently got it a month ago. Started when I shaved my legs in the shower. I thought I probably pinched a nerve or something on my side while I was shaving. I exercise everyday or at least every other, i drink a lot of water and i've been eating healthier. The pain scares me. Everyone just tells me it's stress or anxiety attack maybe just gas. I really feel like I did something though. Going to the doctor to find out cause its scary and it's getting annoying. I dance a lot to so I shouldn't be having this type of pain. Nobody should.

What a relief in some ways. I'm 20 now, but I had this issue start when I was 16. I had to have some tissue removed from my left breast, and then have a silicon implant. A month after I was healed up I started to have brief sharp pains under my left breast. Over the course of the past several years these pains have worsened, but my mum never brought me to the doctor. These sharp pains last several minutes to hours lately and taking deep breaths make the pain worse. I thought I was the only one that experienced these pains!

I'm 14 and i get these shooting pains under my left breast which are very very painful but luckerly i get them very rarly and only at night when lying down but if i sit up then the pain seems to go pretty quickly but if it doesnt go i find breathing very quickly seems to make it stop but if i start to breathe normally again then it comes back so its not a very prctical approch but it is good if you cant handle the pain like me. Not sure if this will would for everyone maybe just me but if anybody else has another way of stoppng the pain or helping it fade paster please let me know.

I have had this problem as well mine was anxiety and it feels like your going to die I had a severe panic attack and though I was having a heart attack because my heart rate sky rocketed, you have to learn how to control it and know you are ok because if you start freaking out it just makes it 10x worse. they last from 10min to 1hr at a time and they can be intense. You have to find your stress relives and know how to control it. I sign or read out loud and even pray. Just be careful because if they get completely out of your control you can have a stroke from it and talk to your Dr. about the steps you can take to help with your symptoms and don't have caffeine it makes it 10x worse. Hope this can help.

I'm a 28 year old woman and get this pain too! I actually found this post because I googled the problem at work while having a particularly painful moment of sharp, throbbing chest pain.

After reading a bunch of info I found and thinking about my day and diet the best thing I can come up with is that this is an indigestion problem. I've had upper GI problems (that have gone unsolved) in the past, and now that I'm thinking about it I notice this pain does seem to come if I didn't eat well, or at all (skipping breakfast & lunch due to crazy work day, not talking about an eating disorder here).

I wonder if anyone else notices a similar trend? I'm popping a few tums and eating a protein bar. Crossing fingers it calms it because I feel like a rib might tear through my left boob right about now!

I'd be interested to hear if anyone else has noticed that this corelates to their eating habbits??

you're awesome..i love what you wrote, do you have any other ideas since then. i've had gall bladder problems for about 10 years now also & now it has gotten worse between & under breast plate....& shoulder blade...trying to find healthier alternatives. love your point of view & would love to hear what you are doing now? thanks!

might be your gallbladder is infected....or gallstones......

im 17 and i just got a pain like this today. its the first time and it lasted about 20 minutes. i was scared at first of a heart attack because my dad had one. but im sure heart problems are not genetic in our family, my dad got a heart attack because of poor diet and not enough exercise,weight issues. im mindful of what i eat and dont eat butter or oil at all i dont like oily food. i also am active for at least 4 hours a day, im not obese or anything. i got scared because i have struggled with anorexia for years now and i still dont eat much at maximum, maybe 800 calories per day. i went to the doctor about 2-3 months ago and at the time i was starving myself with only 300-400 calories per day. the doctor said my cholesterol and sugar levels were high and i was confused i dont eat much and definitely never eating too much sugar or fats. my doctor said its because my body has gone into starvation mode and i need to eat more or i might get diabetes. im eating slightly more now. i got the pain just as i woke up, i was sleeping on my left side. i sleep on the floor usually because i prefer it and i thought it was just stiffness as i wake up with a stiff back sometimes and crack my back to get rid of it, but it really hurt, the pain was in the lower left breast area but only the front, not in my back or anything and not my shoulder or arm either. my mother got gestational diabetes in her 3rd pregnancy and afterwards became diabetic. i do not know about any family history of diabetes. but i doubt it. i am farsighted and wear glasses only in school and i think vision problems run from my maternal side. my mom,sister,and maternal grandmother all wear glasses as well. my mother has thyroid but i do not. i was tested and do not have it.

Helo, Im a medical student almost done with my education, and just to confirm I also get this same pain, on my Left side just under my breast and its thrubbing and knife like for 5-20 minutes, and it scares me a bit, but its definitley NOT the Gallbladder because gallblader is on the Right side along the right lower ribs and its at where you find your Liver aswell, and gallbladder pain is not on the left side like it was earlier described. 

but if You notice the change of your breast, as the pain comes and goes along with your breast swelling up a bit or if your still in breast maturation, stress is also a hormonal factor that can irritate the are of the breast tissue and cause such pain. Definitly go to a doctor and rule out possible tumors, or other problems. 

Good luck y'all

I have no idea but you just described what me and my twin sister both have had since high school. Then, I guess I thought it was just normal. But now that I'm almost 30, I'm wondering if it is normal. Back then it seemed to be in the same localized place right in my chest but now it occurs in random places on my torso. The pain is so sharp at times and the only thing that relieves it is by take fast deep breaths. Almost as if to pop the pain away. So bizzare and kinda scary. What in the world is this???