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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.
As a result of the pain in the right side of the chest you may experience other symptoms. These symptoms typically resolve themselves once you relieve the chest pain and the underlying medical conditions that caused it. A burning sensation in the chest and under the breastbone.