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What Causes Pain From Heart To Shoulder After Drinking Alcohol?

I have been taking overdoses, taking blow, methadorm and drinking alot of alchol. I have been now suffering for three weeks or even more with alot of different pains and I am worried incase I may take a heart attack. I am getting sharp shooting pains from my heart to my left sholder and real bad chest pains and numbness up my right side alot. What should I do??
Fri, 18 Dec 2015
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Overdoses, methadone, and alcohol are potentially fatal. While heart issues are certainly possible, in a young person NOT TAKING STIMULANTS LIKE COCAINE NOR AMPHETAMINE, it is not as common as irritation anywhere near the upper part of the stomach. Alcohol irritates that part by multiple ways. Pain around the diaphram is often felt as pain in shoulder (behind shoulder is UNLIKELY from heart and likely from diaphram). Likewise pain increased with breathing/cough/food that comes and goes in seconds is less likely to be heart. Can be ulcer, though.
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What Causes Pain From Heart To Shoulder After Drinking Alcohol?

Overdoses, methadone, and alcohol are potentially fatal. While heart issues are certainly possible, in a young person NOT TAKING STIMULANTS LIKE COCAINE NOR AMPHETAMINE, it is not as common as irritation anywhere near the upper part of the stomach. Alcohol irritates that part by multiple ways. Pain around the diaphram is often felt as pain in shoulder (behind shoulder is UNLIKELY from heart and likely from diaphram). Likewise pain increased with breathing/cough/food that comes and goes in seconds is less likely to be heart. Can be ulcer, though.