Non-cardiac chest pain

Phantom chest pain

Nature

Sufferers of non-cardiac chest pain complain of heart attack-like symptoms -- severe chest pain radiating down the arms.

Claim

This pain is a mystery. It mimics symptoms of reflux or spastic contraction of the oesophagus without being this. It does not seem connected with an abnormality in the oesophagus but resulting from a dysfunction in the brain's processing of the signals from the oesophagus.