Medical Questions » Chest Questions » Question No. 194
| Question: | I keep getting pains in the centre of my chest. I am frightened it may be a heart attack. What else coild it be? |
| Answer: | There are a score or more reasons for central chest pain, heart disease certainly being one of them.
Other causes include indigestion, hiatus hernia, muscular strains, inflammation of the chest cartilage, bronchitis, other lung diseases and tumours. Anxiety and tension can be sufficiently severe to cause muscle spasms and chest pain. Cancer of the lung, gullet and thymus (a gland in the chest) may also cause chest pain.
There is no doubt that any chest pain that does not settle rapidly should be checked by a doctor. It is far better to be reassured today that there is nothing seriously wrong, than to delay the treatment of serious lung or heart diseases. Please see your general practitioner about this as soon as possible.
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