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The painful, burning sensation is caused by rising stomach acid. It moves from your stomach, where the lining is resistant to its corrosive effects, up into your esophagus, the lining of which is not similarly protected. It can climb all the way from the bottom of the esophagus all the way up into the throat.
Chest pain is a painful or unpleasant sensation in your chest, which may or may not be associated with heart tissue damage. Chest pain can happen in adults for a variety of reasons. Some causes of chest pain may include: 1  Lung-you may have pneumonia, or another type of infection in your lung that may cause chest pain.