what are the causes of squeezing chest and left arm pain with normally low blood pressure?

Answer 1

Usually heart disease. Get to a Dr. for confirmation and if the pain gets worse, get to the emergency room. See a Dr. soon!

Answer 2

What is angina pectoris?
Angina Pectoris is recurring acute chest pain or discomfort resulting from decreased blood supply to the heart muscle(myocardial ischemia). Angina occurs when the heart’s need for oxygen increases beyond the level of oxygen available from the blood nourishing the heart (8). Angina is a common symptom for coronary heart disease (CHD)(9). The symptoms of angina include mild or severe pain, pressure, or discomfort in the chest, the pain is generally described as a feeling of a squeezing, strangling, heaviness, or suffocation sensation in the chest


Angina Pectoris Symptoms
Angina itself is a symptom (or set of symptoms), not a disease. Any of the following may signal angina:

An uncomfortable pressure, fullness, squeezing, or pain in the center of your chest


It may also feel like tightness, burning, or a heavy weight.


The pain may spread to your shoulders, neck, or arms.


It may be located in the upper abdomen, back, or jaw.


The pain may be of any intensity from mild to severe.
Other symptoms may occur with an angina attack, as follows:

Shortness of breath


Light-headedness


Fainting


Anxiety or nervousness


Sweating or cold, sweaty skin


Nausea


Rapid or irregular heart beat


Pallor (pale skin)


Feeling of impending doom
These symptoms are identical to the signs of an impending heart attack described by the American Heart Association. It is not always easy to tell the difference between angina and a heart attack, except angina only lasts a few minutes and heart attack pain does not go away.

If you have never had symptoms like this before, sit down. If you are able, call your health care provider. If you cannot speak to him or her immediately, call 911 or go to the closest hospital emergency department.


If you have had angina attacks before and this attack is similar to those, rest for a few minutes. Take your sublingual nitroglycerin. Your angina should be totally relieved in 5 minutes. If not, take a second nitroglycerin. If you still have no relief, call 911 or go to the nearest hospital emergency department.

Answer 3

The low bp doesn't exclude the possibility of your heart being in stress. My grandfather had a pain in his left arm and in the front of the left shoulder, but no pain is his chest and he thought it was due to his back/column, some kind of pain caused by physical works he had been doing at the time.
When he presented these informations to my mom (which is a doctor) she immediately concluded it was heart angina and, 3 months later, my grandad was having 4 bypasses in his heart, in a surgery that lasted 5 hours...
Obviously, it doesn't mean it is the same thing and I really don't mean to scare you but I advise to visit a doctor and tell him what you feel.

Answer 4

Heart attack. Go directly to emergency, don't pass go, don't collect $200. I've had three heart attacks and I know. Also neck and jaw pain can go along with it. The blood pressure reading doesn't matter at this point. Go to the hospital. They can tell you in minutes if your having a heart attack. Remember, time is heart muscle lost. Better safe than sorry.

Answer 5

These are the typical symptoms of angina and as you are describing it being associated with low blood pressure, it is rather more ominous as angina for long time causes slow death of heart muscles and resulting heart failure because of severely decreased pump efficiency. It needs immediate medical attention.

Answer 6

typical symptoms of cardiac disease, but don't worry if it is not that severe it can be caused by a stress. it will be better if you go to the hospital and do some blood tests. like troponin I , or cardiac enzymes

Answer 7

this is a recognized symptom of cardiac disease. the BP is irrelevant.