I am a 23 year old female, who is in fairly good health. l exercise normally and eat well. The only existing medical problem l know l have is asthma. Recently, I've been experiencing episodes of intense sharp pains on the left side of my chest at the top right side of my left breast. It lasts anywhere from a few minutes to all day on and off! its extremely hard to take deep breaths, which sometimes cause asthma attack. The best way l can describe the pain is like something is stuck, literally in my chest/heart, and its trying to push through. The pain sometimes radiates to my back,shoulder, left arm and neck. I've had pluerisy about 3 years ago and had a lung scan to check for clots to be safe. all was good. any ideas on what this could be???

l had an xray last week to check for blood clots as l was experiencing pain similar to yours which came back fine, but they did an ECG and found my heartrate was going quite fast so l would enquire about getting this done! good luck x

It could be something like pleurisy. Or it could be this thing called Costochondritis. You should look that up and see if you think that is what you have.

That said, l have asthma and l get this kind of thing to a minor degree, but eventually goes away. Sometimes it is after I've had a bad asthma attack and l feel like it is has irritated my chest muscles.