No, your heart is mainly in the center-left of your chest, slightly behind your breastbone, not under your right breast, though pain can sometimes feel like it's there due to shared nerve pathways. The right side protects organs like your liver, gallbladder, and right lung, but it's crucial to rule out serious heart issues if you feel chest pain, especially with other symptoms like shortness of breath, as atypical heart attack pain (more common in women/diabetics) can present on the right.
Your heart is located between your lungs in the middle of your chest, behind and slightly to the left of your breastbone (sternum). A double-layered membrane called the pericardium surrounds your heart like a sac.
Experiencing pain under your right breast? Luckily, the Mayo Clinic says this pain is rarely a concern for breast cancer, nor is it closely associated with heart attacks because your heart is mainly on the left side of your chest. Everyone, not just women, can suffer from sharp pain under their right breast.
What organs are under my right rib cage? The right rib cage protects many vital organs: the right lung; parts of the digestive system such as the liver, pancreas, gallbladder and large and small intestines; and the urinary system — the right kidney, ureter, the bladder and the urethra.
Potential Risks Causing Chest Pain
Most discomfort in this area is likely due to muscle strain, infection, stress, or anxiety, rather than heart-related issues. Left-sided chest pain is often associated with heart attacks. If you feel pain on the right side, it is less likely to be heart-related.
The most common cause of right heart failure is left ventricular failure, which increases pressure in the pulmonary vasculature and leads to pressure or volume overload in the right ventricle. Clinical manifestations include chest discomfort, breathlessness, palpitations, and body swelling.
Pain under your right breast can have various causes, including muscle strain, injuries, the menstrual cycle, IBS, and fibrocystic breast disease. It can also occur due to pneumonia, gallstones, hernias, and pleurisy.
Q: When should I seek medical attention for pain under my right ribs? A: Seek medical attention if the pain is severe, persistent, associated with fever, jaundice, difficulty breathing, or if there are symptoms of a heart attack.
There are no muscles in the breast, but muscles lie under each breast and cover the ribs. Each breast also contains blood vessels and vessels that carry lymph. The lymph vessels lead to small bean-shaped organs called lymph nodes.
Angina can feel like a pressing, squeezing, or crushing pain in the chest under your breastbone. You may have pain in your upper back, both arms, neck, or ear lobes. You may also have shortness of breath, weakness, or fatigue. Nitroglycerin is the most common medicine to treat angina.
In some women, the first signs and symptoms of heart disease can be:
Cardiac pain is often described as a pressure or squeezing sensation and can radiate to the arm, neck, or jaw. Breast pain is dull, muscle pain is sharp, and heart pain feels like pressure.
Pain in the right side of the chest can appear suddenly or develop gradually, sometimes spreading to the shoulder, back, or upper abdomen. It's important not to ignore pain in the right side of the chest, especially when it comes with shortness of breath, coughing, or chest pain when breathing.
Chest pain. Fainting or severe weakness. Rapid or irregular heartbeat with shortness of breath, chest pain or fainting. Sudden, severe shortness of breath and coughing up white or pink, foamy mucus.
Below are some signs of a potentially real cardiovascular event that warrant immediate medical attention: Mild or severe discomfort in the middle or left side of the chest that feels like fullness, pressure or squeezing; it lasts several minutes, ends, then returns.
The heart is located closer to the left breast, and some researchers have speculated that the exposure to electromagnetic radiation from the heart could potentially influence the development of cancer cells in the left breast.
Your liver will be located amongst various organs in that spot. The upper part of your liver will extend to your chest (just underneath your right breast if you are female). The lower part of your liver will extend just below your ribcage along the right side of your abdomen.
The main signs and symptoms of lymphoedema are: swelling in your arm, leg or other affected area — clothes, shoes or jewellery may seem tighter than usual. a feeling of heaviness or tightness in the affected area.
An uncomfortable feeling under your right rib cage can be due to digestive issues like acid reflux or indigestion, or even from muscle tension influenced by stress.
The main symptom of acute pancreatitis is a severe, dull pain around the top of your stomach that develops suddenly. This aching pain often gets steadily worse and can travel along your back or below your left shoulder blade. Eating or drinking may also make you feel worse very quickly, especially fatty foods.
Red flags for rib pain needing immediate care include crushing chest pain radiating to the jaw/arm, shortness of breath, sweating, nausea, dizziness (potential heart attack), or severe pain/deformity after injury (possible pneumothorax/spleen injury). See a doctor promptly for pain worsening with deep breaths/coughing, fever, cough with colored phlegm, or if you're on blood thinners, as these suggest complications like pneumonia or severe fractures.
The nerve endings that have pain receptors are actually in the lung lining, called the pleura. An injury to the lining of the lung, inflammation due to an infection or invasion by cancer can all cause pain in the chest.
The liver, located on the right side of the abdomen just below the chest, can cause referred pain to the chest when it becomes inflamed or infected. Conditions such as hepatitis (liver inflammation) or liver abscesses may lead to dull or sharp pain in the right chest or upper abdominal region.
If you have upper or lower right abdominal pain, it can tell your provider which organ(s) may be involved. For instance, pain on the right side under your ribs may mean you have a problem in your liver or gallbladder.