question: i have very strong burning pain in my upper back across the shoulder blade area that generates through to the chest it happens every evening while just siting on the sofa this has been going on for six or seven years now my doctor told me he thinks is just muscula and not to be concerned, I take 3 blood preasure pills plus i have been taking crestor and prevacid all the time and both of these say they can cause muscle pain but other things can also c ause pain in the upper back one time a week ago it got so bad while driving i had to pull over after taking some tums i began to throw up it lasted at least two hours