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What Causes Chest Pain On The Left Side?

Alright, I'm a 14 year old girl that is perfectly healthy and has a reasonable weight. Yesterday afternoon when I got home from school I started to get chest discomfort and pain on the left side of my chest and I feel like I'm not breathing properly through my left nostril. I tried to sleep it off but today I feel the same way. There is mucus or anything. It just feels like I'm having a hard time breathing to get oxygen through the left side of my chest. What's wrong with me?
Fri, 11 Aug 2017
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Such a pain can result from various causes. Commonly, its something we like to call - pleuritis or a pleuritic pain. The pleura is a membrane covering the lungs. It can get inflamed and cause severe pain on inhalation sometimes. But your description is not specific enough to make such a diagnosis. I would recommend to see your family physician, and perhaps get a chest X-ray.
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What Causes Chest Pain On The Left Side?

Such a pain can result from various causes. Commonly, its something we like to call - pleuritis or a pleuritic pain. The pleura is a membrane covering the lungs. It can get inflamed and cause severe pain on inhalation sometimes. But your description is not specific enough to make such a diagnosis. I would recommend to see your family physician, and perhaps get a chest X-ray.