(Solved) I was diagnose with a heart murmur and never did anything about it, not i have chest pain!?

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I was diagnose with a heart murmur and never did anything about it, not i have chest pain!?

So about 2 years ago the doctor found out that i had a heart murmur and he said it was a mild one bcux it would go away when i laid down. he send me to get some x-rays but they had closed when i went. so i procrastinated on getting the xrays and never got them. from a while back i started to notice that i get a pain on the left side of my chest(which is where the heart is) should i worry about it and go to the docter as soon as possible? i am 17 male hispanic 120 lbs

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Heart murmurs are NOT harmless like the other answer says, and if your doctor told you to get the x-rays it was with a good reason.
A heart murmur usually means a valve insufficiency, which can lead to myocardial hypertrophy (the heart muscle starts growing abnormally big), because, well, it's a muscle, and the valvular insufficiency might force the muscle to contract stronger, and just like with any other muscle (the biceps, for example), when exercised for a long period of time, it grows.
See a doctor.

Just a side note, the heart is not on the left side, as common belief says. It's in the center of the chest, only a little tilted to the left. It's right before the sternum, that bone is there to protect the heart.

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