Why do I get sharp pinch in my torso sometimes?

Did you mention this symptom to your doctor when you had your last check?

Is the pain like pinching with a needle? Is it only in the torso area? Did you feel it in other places like your legs or arms?

When you said that finally you know what "heart burn" is about after eating jalapeno peppers in great quantity, do you remember feeling "heart burn" in other former occasions as well, perhaps with less intensity?

I ask, because the sharp pain might be related somehow with reflux.

Reflux is not a condition caused by age, and many people have it without knowing it all their lives.

The best you can do is check for a diagnosis starting from the most common causes of a pain similar to yours, and from here disregard them one by one, unless your health insurance goes easy for endoscopy, and deep testing like MRI and more. It can be your stomach, it can be another organ, it can be a muscle, it can be lots of things.

What you are experiencing may be a common condition which can be treated just watching your diet, or can be a condition requiring medical treatment and beyond. Pain is a warning given by your body, and you must clear up what is its cause, so you can label it with the help of a professional.

Keep a diary about what you are doing and eating and your stress level before these events happen.

If you have been checked out by a Dr. most likely you are doing something to bring this body spasm on.

The jalapeno incident was the first time I ever felt heart burn. To this day, it has happened a total of 3 times; each immediately after eating a lot of jalapeno peppers.

The sensation occurs in random parts of my torso. It never happens in my limbs or head. Last time, it was on my lower back, to the right, maybe around the kidney?

Before then, it was on my front chest, about 5 inches above the left breast. Maybe around the left lung?

Yes, the pain is sharp and specific, like a needle. It goes away as quickly as it comes.

Has it not occurred to you to not imbibe a whole jar of jalapenos?

Aren't they good for you since, scientifically speaking, they are a fruit?

You've already figured out that you get heart burn pains after eating many peppers. Whether or not they are good for you is a moot point. Your body is telling you it has a problem digesting peppers in large quantity. Listen to your body.

The other random pains you describe are most probably gas bubbles moving through your intestines. If you want something more reliable than that, make an appointment with your doctor.

I'm really hope you're being cheeky here.

I eat various chile peppers (chile is the spelling for new mexico peppers and that is where I am living) in some form virtually every day but never a whole jar. Perhaps someone used to very hot peppers (we have one or maybe two threads on those here at a2k, and I don't think we even approached talking about various asian peppers) would just snicker at jalapenos being called hot, but your stomach is likely surprised by the mass of them.

I shouldn't have looked:

http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2744/2

Just as I suspected. Look at the single serving sodium count for jarred jalapenos. Times that by the number of servings in a single jar. By eating a whole jar of jalapenos, at least you're not going to get scurvy.

This sharp pain could be due to breathing difficulties. Sometimes, especially when you exercise or move around a lot, you can feel the sensation of a sharp, needle like pain. Changing breathing techniques can take care of that. Pay attention to your breathing when you feel the sensation again.

I usually find that one of the bones in my corset has worked loose.

Oh you Brits! Spanx is the word nowadays, Spanky!

Sounds like a pointless exercise to just name it. Why don't you see someone who specialises in musculoskeletal assessment and treatment. Not a common area for GP's to specialise in.

It just seems silly to see a specialist for gas bubbles and heart burn.

I know there isn't anything medically wrong with me. Like I said, I'm young and healthy according to my complete physical and blood tests (needed for school) but I'd like to know the name of the common sensations I'll be getting throughout my life.

For example, when I got my period for the first time, it was the day I learned the meaning of pain! Tears were rolling down my eyes because, unlike a sharp jab of your toe that hits you for a second and then goes away, the pain I felt that day was constant. It lasted hours! I curled up in a fetal position and went to sleep crying. Thankfully, when I woke up, it was over.

However, every month before my period, the damn pain would come back. As if blood coming out of me wasn't bad enough!

I investigated the pain I felt in my abdomen and associated it with the term "menstrual cramp."

When I figured out the name for it, I was able to do a Google search of it and learn more about "menstrual cramps."

I learned that hot compresses helped alleviate the pain immediately for me.

At the same time, I also learned what a "migraine" was.

I now know that before my period, I get migraines and menstrual cramps, and can prepare for them with Motrin and hot compresses.

So knowing what you're feeling is called is important. But there are so many aches and pains in the average body that you get throughout life. There's no way of being born knowing all of them. You have to learn them slowly as you live on from fellow human beings that have experienced the same thing.