Chest pain from indigestion
Poor digestion — heartburn, acid coming up, a bloated stomach — can cause a burning or pressing pain in the chest. But chest pain can also be a heart attack. Any chest pain with sweating, breathlessness, or pain spreading to the arm, neck or jaw needs 108/112 at once.
- Heartburn and acid reflux (GERD) are the most common cause of chest pain
- But heart attack pain can also feel like burning or indigestion
- Indigestion that lasts more than two weeks, or comes with severe pain, should be checked by a doctor
Source: Cleveland Clinic (chest pain); NHS (chest pain); MedlinePlus (indigestion; chest pain)
What is Chest pain from indigestion?
The food pipe (oesophagus) runs down through the chest, right behind the heart, to the stomach. When the stomach is upset — too much acid, too much gas, food sitting too long — acid can rise into the food pipe, or the stomach can press upward. The pain is then felt in the chest, often as burning behind the breastbone.
This kind of pain often starts after eating and comes with belching, a bitter or sour taste, bloating or a full feeling. But no one can tell by the feel alone whether chest pain comes from the stomach or the heart — so heart causes are ruled out first.
What are the symptoms?
- Burning pain behind the breastbone, often after eating
- A bitter or sour taste, or food and fluid coming back up
- Belching, bloating or feeling full too soon
- Discomfort or burning in the upper belly
- Nausea
What causes it, and who is more likely to get it?
Eating habits
- Eating too much or too fast, or lying down soon after a meal
- Fatty or spicy food, alcohol and too much caffeine
Stomach and food pipe problems
Other everyday triggers
- Stress and tiredness, smoking, and some medicines
How is it found?
A doctor first makes sure the heart is not the cause — especially if the pain is new, severe, or comes with breathlessness or sweating. Only then is the stomach looked at.
ECG and heart check
An ECG and sometimes blood tests look for strain or damage to the heart. This comes first.
Questions and examination
When the pain comes, how long it lasts, its link to meals, and any belching, sour taste or bloating.
Upper endoscopy
A thin camera looks at the food pipe and stomach when the problem lasts or there are warning signs.
X-rays and lab tests
Help find the cause of long-lasting indigestion.
Before any point is given, the neurotherapist asks whether you have any heart disease and asks to see every tablet and report. This one answer decides whether Loveleen may be given at all.
How Neurotherapy sees Chest pain from indigestion
In LMNT, chest pain that comes from poor digestion has one named treatment: the Loveleen point. Guruji's teaching calls it excellent for this pain. Loveleen is given with the patient lying on the back, in three stages on each side — from the chest, from the last rib and from the waist — each ending at the elbow.
The same pressure that helps here is the reason for its one bar: in Loveleen the weight falls on the chest, so it is never given to a heart patient.
Whether or not the patient gets immediate benefit from our treatment, let no harm reach him through our carelessness — attend to this.
Neurotherapy treatment for Chest pain from indigestion, step by step
Heart first
If the pain is new, severe, or comes with sweating, breathlessness or pain spreading to the arm or jaw, there is no treatment on the mat — call 108/112. The heart is ruled out by a doctor before anything else.
Examine and ask about the heart
The therapist examines as usual, and asks about any heart disease, every tablet and every report. A heart patient's card is marked so that Loveleen is not given.
Loveleen
For chest pain from poor digestion in a person without heart disease, Loveleen is given — lying on the back, three stages on each side.
Look after the digestion
The digestion behind the pain is looked at too — the related pages on acidity and gas explain how LMNT works with them.
Points and formulas used
Never do this
- Emergency first: chest pain or pressure that does not go away, spreads to the arm, neck, jaw, stomach or back, or comes with sweating, breathlessness, nausea or dizziness — call 108/112 at once. Heart attack pain can feel like indigestion. LMNT is never first aid for chest pain. Infarct
- Loveleen is never given to a heart patient — in Loveleen the pressure falls on the chest. On such a patient's card it is marked as not to be given. Loveleen
- See a doctor if chest pain comes and goes, if indigestion lasts more than two weeks, or if there is difficulty swallowing, vomiting blood, black stools or weight loss.
- Cancer: if the person has cancer, (10) Pan, Thymus, Pit, Lu + Sh, Rt. Ov / Lt. Ov and (30) Medulla are never given — the therapist changes the plan.
- Keep taking the medicines your doctor prescribed. Neurotherapy works alongside your medical care, never instead of it.
Test yourself
What research says
- Strong evidence
Pain signals from the heart meet pain signals from other parts of the chest on the same nerve cells in the upper spinal cord. This shared wiring is why the feel of a chest pain alone cannot tell you where it comes from — and why the heart is checked first.
No clinical trial of Neurotherapy for chest pain from indigestion has been published yet. Improvements reported by neurotherapists are clinical observations.
For you
People with heart disease
Tell your therapist about it before anything else, and bring your tablets and reports. Loveleen is not for you, and any new chest pain goes to your heart doctor first.
People who get burning after meals
Eat smaller meals slowly, and do not lie down straight after eating. If the burning keeps coming back, see a doctor.
This page explains; it does not diagnose. Neurotherapy works alongside your medical care — keep taking the medicines your doctor prescribed, and see a doctor for any new or severe symptom.