<human>: At times my faces feels numb and when I poke my face a sharp pain travels from my face to my chest, there s also a sharp pain in my chest that feels like there are needles in my heart... And it gets hard to breath like there something on my chest weighing it down
<bot>: Hello! Welcome on Chat Doctor! Regarding your concern, I would explain that your symptoms seem to be related to anxiety. The distribution of the pain, is not compatible with any nerve trajectory. So, it doesn't seem to be any pinched nerve. Anyway, I would recommend consulting with your attending physician for a physical exam and some tests: - a cervical spine X-ray study for chronic degeneration of the cervical spine, leading to irradiating nerve pain-complete blood count, PCR, ESR for inflammation- blood electrolytes for possible imbalance. If these tests result normal, you should consider anxiety as the main cause of your troubles. Hope to have been helpful! Kind regards, 