Doe's any bodys chest hurt right by the breast bone?

Hi Doe's any bodys chest hurt right by the breast bone. Like it switchs from right and then left. I get this most of the time. It hurts my chest doe's not throb it just aches by the breast bone. Misty.

Mine does quite often, but I have costochondritis. At times I can see and feel the cartlidge swell. When I touch it, it hurts like nobody's business..When I get a chest cold from my sinus draining, it makes it that much worse. When my anxiety hits and I get chest pain, it sometimes makes my costo worse...hope you feel better..

Misty, I got the definition from mayo about what costo is..I can tell you in my own words too. It's inflammation of the cartlidge of the chest and ribs. Sometimes my ribs will hurt and swell really bad. When the doctor figured out mine, he saw tender points in my chest. It is uncomfortable and hurts bad even when I touch it..I have to crack my chest like I do my neck. It's almost like arthritis to me. It's a different kind of pain too, than the ones I get with anxiety. The doctor asked me If benched pressed with weights, and I said no. I worked at an automotive factory, and would lift hatchback wagons, up and down, and installed sunroofs. That's how I got my arthritis in my neck. I guess repetitive exercises with the chest muscles can cause it. But here is the definition from the mayo clinic website..I relieve it sometimes with a cold pack on my chest and ribs, and then heat pack..20 mins on and 20 mins off...

"Mayo Clinic definition"
Costochondritis (kos-toe-KHON-dri-tis) is an inflammation of the cartilage that connects a rib to the breastbone (sternum) — a junction known as the costosternal joint. Pain caused by costochondritis may mimic that of a heart attack or other heart conditions.

Your doctor might refer to costochondritis by other names, including chest wall pain, costosternal syndrome and costosternal chondrodynia. When the pain of costochondritis is accompanied by swelling, it's referred to as Tietze syndrome.

Most cases of costochondritis have no apparent cause. In these cases, treatment focuses on easing your pain while you wait for costochondritis to improve on its own.

When Kitt quoted "this harmless pain", the harmless relates to non-malign or non life threatening. The pain can be horrible and put you through all kinds of psychological stress if it isn't diagnosed as such. However once you have the knowledge of what it is and a capacity to identify it as such (whilst it can be central/sternum areas, it can also be elsewhere in chest wall), your stress level should decrease. It can be episodic or in some cases recurring; for some it can be a constant companion for considerable periods of time. However there ARE some means of treating the pain which your doctor or pain specialist may advise you.

Costo DOES tend to be aggravated by anxiety and is also a regular component of the pain condition Fibromyalgia which many anxiety/depression sufferers may have. There is a separate Fibro sub-forum; it may pay to take a look at their resources area and see if you "tick a number of boxes". If so, it may then pay to raise the question with your doctor and have it looked into. One of the best ways of staying on top of those negative "what ifs" is to combat them with FACTS (ie the knowledge that this pain ISN'T cardiac related).

Wombat,
I know for myself, when my costo swells up the cartlidge in my chest and ribs, you can see it and It used to freak me out, and make my anxiety worse. Now I know the difference of the pain thankfully so that doesn't bother me much. When I do get other little chest pains, even muscle pains, that's when I get anxious. Especially if I get anxiety first, then all the pains. Thank you for your info.

Just a quick note,
Occasionally I get severe chest pains from pleurisy. It comes on slow minor chest pain in a few days to every breath is extremely painful. Pleurisy is a infection which always clears up immediately
From a round of antibiotics.
Hope this does not describe UR chest pain.

http://www.medicinenet.com/pleurisy/symptoms.htm

I always had chest and arm pain from anxiety and GERD - had every heart test done, echo,stress, halter, tons of ekgs, nuclear, everything was fine they told me my heart was perfect - never had a blood pressure issue or anything wrong. I was diagnosed with GERD - i am on Zantac for GERD and Lexapro for the chest pain due to heart anxiety and after about 3 to 4 weeks of side effects from the lexapro - i was doing pretty good. I have been on it for almost 2 months now and doing good. But I still stress myself out and cause some chest and arm pain. Its crazy the physical symptoms your body can do to you when your stressed