Why does my chest hurt after drinking?

Many people always find that their chest area is very painful after drinking. At this time, you should pay more attention to it. If it happens frequently, you cannot ignore it. You must go to the hospital for examination and treatment in time to avoid worsening of your symptoms. And don't drink again in the future. Sometimes this symptom will occur if you eat too much.

The cause may be related to viral infection or trauma. The course of the disease may last for several hours or days, but it may relapse and usually heal itself within a few months, but in some cases it may last for several years.

(1) Physical fatigue: more intense and prolonged labor than before, causing excessive fatigue.

(2) Overeating, drinking, and excessive smoking.

(3) Excessive excitement and agitation of the mental nerves.

(4) Severe heart failure: unstable angina.

(5) Hypokalemia and hypomagnesemia.

(6) Certain antiarrhythmic drugs.

1. Unstable angina: Unstable angina (acute coronary insufficiency; pre-infarction angina; deteriorating angina; intermediate syndrome) is characterized by progressive increase in angina symptoms, new onset of rest or nocturnal angina, or prolonged duration of angina.

2. Dull pain in the precordial area: Pain in the precordial area is mainly seen in the fibrin exudation stage of the inflammatory changes of acute pericarditis. There are no pain nerves on the visceral and parietal inner surfaces of the pericardium, but pain fibers of the phrenic nerve are distributed on the outer surface of the parietal layer below the level of the fifth or sixth intercostal space. Therefore, pain only occurs when the lesion spreads to this part of the pericardium or the nearby pleura, mediastinum or diaphragm.

Precordial pain is often aggravated by changes in body position, deep breathing, coughing, swallowing, lying down, especially when raising the legs or lying on the left side, and relieved when sitting or leaning forward. The pain is usually localized under the sternum or in front of the heart, often radiating to the left shoulder, back, neck or upper abdomen, and occasionally to the mandible, left forearm and hand.

3. Dull pain in the pit of the stomach: People often call the pain in the pit of the stomach epigastric pain. The pain in this area mostly comes from stomach and duodenal diseases. In addition to the stomach and duodenum, organs such as the gallbladder, pancreas, left lobe of the liver, common bile duct and heart are all close to or adjacent to the heart. Pathologies of these organs can also cause stomach pain.

The patient may feel dull or sharp pain in the chest, tenderness and swelling at the affected costal cartilage. The pain may worsen with deep breathing, coughing or movement of the affected upper limb, and may sometimes radiate to the shoulder or back. The patient may not even be able to raise his arm. However, there is no change in the local skin. The pain varies in severity and often lingers, affecting the patient's work and study. After the pain disappears, the swollen costal cartilage may even last for months or years. Sometimes the pain recurs after fatigue. The onset may be acute or slow.