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Dr. Lianush Mkrtchyan answered : 7 years ago
Hi, sometimes it's not so easy to differ chest pain is from heart problems or it's an extracardiac pain. It highly matters how old are you, gender, past disease, trauma hystory, family history etc. Usually if the pain is an anginal, ie comes from diminished heart blood supply, and lasts more than 20-30 minutes, it brings to heart muscle damage, ie miocardial infarction. In this case it woud be appropriate to do cardiac tests (ECG, EchoCG, cardiac troponin T test, etc) and if everithing comes ok that means cardiac dangerous causes are excluded and the next step is to investigate and find the real cause of pain. Sometimes, as in your case, the way to find is a short term treatment aganst the disease your doctor suspects, and if it brings to good results that means your doc is on the right way and your complaints are from the stress in your life, otherwise he/she may change investigation and treatment course. Be healthy.