how will you know if you have a heart problem???

Question

please show symptoms of having a heart blockage due to high cholesterol....

Answer 1

Unfortunately there is no real way to know since about 50% of heart attacks occur in people with NORMAL cholesterol levels. But if a main artery is blocked due to plaque build up (caused by excessive cholesterol), some symptoms which may develop are:
Chest pain, shortness of breath, exercise intolerance, pain in left shoulder, arm, jaws etc. excessive sweating, weakness (feeling poorly)... And the problem is that many of those symptoms can come from other causes.

Even ECG (Electro cardiogram), Ultrasound (called an echocardiogram), Tread mill test (called stress test) etc. will not reveal the exisence of blocks in some cases. When in doubt, the only sure way is to go in for a catheterisation (called an angiogram), an invasive procedure. EBCT (a non-invasive CT scan) is promising to yield most of the information without the need for an angiogram.

If you need more information, consult your cardiologist. Good luck.

There are a number of other risk factors and it is a good idea to be educated and minimise /eliminate as many of them as possible.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Chest pain; shortness of breath; dizziness; pain in one or both arms and/or neck, jaw, back; nausea; sweating....please go see a doc if you have these symptoms.

P.S. This is not a complete list, just some of the more common symptoms

Answer 4

Pain is quite common, dizziness and fainting, either very fast, slow or irregular heart beats, cold fingers and toes (white or possibly tinged blue) and blue/grey nail beds are quite common.

Answer 5

pain called angina will let you know