Q Is it necessary to take chest pain seriously?
Yes. The chest pain may include different conditions like muscular sprain, spasm, muscle injury, trauma, rib bone fracture, hyper-acidity, gases. The causes include pulmonary-related with lungs, gastrointestinal, musculo-skeletal,and psychological. Most importantly if it is related with heart and is associated with symptoms like sweating, palpitation, radiating pain towards left hand-jaw-shoulder-neck; it may be due to cardiac pathology. It may result in attack. So chest pain needs to be evaluated by your doctor as soon as possible.