can your intestines bring pain to your left chest wall?

Answer 1

Yes, your small intestines are innervated at the T10-11 bilaterally and the left colon is innervated on the left at T 10-12. A problem in the intestines could bring pain to the lower left chest, although there are numerous other causes. Most pain in the chest is musculoskeletal in origin.

Answer 2

In older editions of Cecil and Loeb's Textbook of Medicine, Sir Russell Cecil waxed eloquently on the "splenic flexure syndrome," where the colon makes an acute bend. Gas or stool accumulates in the flexure, causing distension and acute pain in the left chest. Symptoms were relieved with passage of gas or relief of constipation. Some such sufferers were emotional cripples from the frequent recurrence, thinking they were experiencing a heart attack. Others thought the pain was from the colon causing irritation of the diaphragm which is innervated by the phrenic nerve. The phrenic nerve also supplies branches to the pericardium, the heart covering, as well as to the chest wall, AND to part of the abdominal wall lining via penetrating branches.

In more recent times, the splenic flexure syndrome is often classified as a subdivision of the Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

So, in answer to your question, Yes!

Answer 3

Well everything is connected in a way, but I'd be more worried about my lungs, heart, or esophagus causing chest pain.

Answer 4

No way.A pal above says about T10-T12 but this space is hardly described by a patient as "chest" area...!!!