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There are many causes of pain on the left side of the chest: musculo skeletal pain, oesaphagitis and reflux, pancreatitis and stomach ulcers, angina and Heart disease, chest infections, shingles, fibrositis, referred pain from spine and occasionally from gall bladder disease and irritable bowel. A detailed investigation is needed to establish the cause of pain.

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