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Suggest Treatment For Chest And Back Pain
Yesterday I was having really bad chest pains and back pains I thought I was having a heart attack went to emergency room and they took my ekg , the pain was so bad it hurt standing straight up ,burp, cough or drink something or eat it really hurts , today the pain is still here but not as bad as yesterday today it's more in my right upper back , and something hurts when I cough , burp , drink , eat , chest hurts alil , bending down hurts moving my right arm hurts what can this be ekg came back normal
Fri, 23 Dec 2016
Hi, sometimes severe acidity can cause an inflamed food pipe (esophagitis), that can be severe. Please take a liquid antacid with local anaesthetic like lidocaine in it for 2-3 days. It should improve. Regards
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