2007-10-19 15:22:14 · 5 answers · asked by romeo f 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Heart Diseases
Chest pain due to poor blood perfusion to the heart. The pain would occur when you were exercising or active & would disappear when resting. Nitroglycerin pills also relieve the pain.
An interesting note is a large amount of chest pain seen in the ER tends to be heartburn.
2007-10-19 15:30:28 · answer #1 · answered by jml3148 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's ANGINA PECTORIS. To have chest pain or not have chest pain. That is the question for all seasons. Which of us does not have chest pain is a good question as well. Ok...which chest pain is worse than the other? Well, that depends. I have had three episodes of rib fracture and to make things worse on one of those times I fell and hit my chest in the broken rib area a week into healing. Right at that time I would have traded my chest pain for angina pectoris.
Your scratching your head about now. You might be thinking hmmm...if angina pectoris means chest pain, but classically associated with inadequate blood supply to some portion of the heart then why would this guy trade broken ribs to a heart condition?
Well, my friend. First of all, the beauty of pain is to the beholder. The other thing that I know is that although horribly scarry (my god my heart is in trouble. Am I going to die right here?) it also is generally treated very successfully today with a great and long term outcome. My father was at 65 when he developed Angina. He underwent open heart surgery and died a 94. OK...I admit that this is a bit unusual, but I think that you get the point. One hundred years ago this diagnosis would be a death sentence where today usually only means life changes (dietary, surgery, medications).
Also, really really important is the fact that 99.9999999% of people walking into the doctor's office or ER complaining of chest pain walk out smiling thinking (I feel silly).
Finally, some serious heart struggling pain is not felt in the chest, but in the upper stomach, left shoulder and neck. And really rarely the deadly emergency known as disecting aorta has pain that is nothing like the person has ever had and point to the upper back.
2007-10-20 00:05:16 · answer #2 · answered by Old School 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
chest painor tightness, shoulder pain, jaw pain worse on exertion or in cold weather
2007-10-20 08:52:56 · answer #3 · answered by donnajaneindigo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chest pain, could be left arm pain or shoulder pain, or even jaw pain.
2007-10-19 22:26:17 · answer #4 · answered by Trauma31 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's pain in your heart.
2007-10-19 22:24:54 · answer #5 · answered by Joan H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋