I've heard Angiana isn't only experienced on the left arm. Is it also on the Right?
2007-04-28 17:13:27 · 7 answers · asked by JUANITA M S 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Heart Diseases
Angina is chest pain or discomfort you get when your heart muscle does not get enough blood. It may feel like pressure or a squeezing pain in your chest. It may feel like indigestion. You may also feel pain in your shoulders, arms, neck, jaw or back.
2007-04-28 17:16:03 · answer #1 · answered by RadTech - BAS RT(R)(ARRT) 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Angina is brought on by exhurstion and typically the pain starts to subside after rest.
It presents itself much like a heart attack. Shortness of breath, profuse sweating, lightheadedness, palpations (meaning a throbbing or fluttering sensation in the chest), nausea, pale/cool/moist skin, anxiety. The pain can also present feeling tightness, gripping, heaviness, squeezing, burning or dull. The pain may radiate to the left arm, shoulder, hand and jaw. It also may feel like you have bad indigestion.
Either way, chest pain is not something to leave alone and ignore. If you feel it for any reason, dial 911.
If angina is left untreated, it can cause a heart attack. Angina usually leaves the heart undamaged, but NOT in all cases.
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2007-04-28 17:23:26 · answer #2 · answered by Paramedic Girl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
did you mean angina? If so, the classic symptoms are chest pain irradiated to the jaw and left arm, sweating, palpitations (heart speed-ed up), paleness. But t in medicine not always things are so typical, so you can have as you said pain irradiated to the right, shortness of breath, even abdominal pain!!
So its important that any intense pain that makes you show up in the ER must be investigated as cardiac in its origin and angina or MI must be ruled out first
As an advice by the way, if you want to stay for a while in the ER just say you have chest pain...even because of legal issues, any chest pain is investigated in the ER nowadays. I agree with these policy.
Hope it helps
2007-04-28 18:17:03 · answer #3 · answered by G square 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Angina means pain in the chest. Angina itself is a symptom of probable coronary artery disease. But, you get pain in the chest due to muscular, due to cold, due to gas also. Any pain in the chest should not be ignored. Consult your family doctor first if the pain continues. Some times you may get radiating pain in your shoulders also. Beware, diabetic patients do not get angina when there is an attack. They may get profuse sweating, numbness in the hands, breathlessness etc.
2007-04-28 20:32:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no on cheek, neck, upper abdomen, but right arm, i dont think. in diabetics we have silent angina w/o any symptom and in some with chest pain replacers like respiratory distress, abdominal signs or...
2007-04-28 17:25:35 · answer #5 · answered by dr s 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
angina can give you heavy feelings in your chest,make you have pains and aches throughout the heart area ,can give you palpitations,can make you short of breath ,make you feel dizzy,can go up side your head as well as in the arms and neck area=hope this has been of some help
2007-04-28 17:19:22 · answer #6 · answered by caffsans 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
chest pain, if ir involves your left arm it could be M.I.
2007-04-28 17:41:07 · answer #7 · answered by sanshaynco 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋