Angina pectoris or chest pain produces squeezing effect on your chest. It is formed when there is disruption of blood flow in the heart muscles. Angina is indicative of coronary heart problem and it gives tightness or heaviness to the chest. An individual getting this sort of chest pain may feel as though someone is standing on his chest and squeezing it. The pain can be relatively common but it is difficult to differentiate angina pain from other types of chest pain.
Symptoms :
Angina pain is associated with some of the symptoms like chest pain, discomfort, nausea, pain spreading to arms and neck, extreme tiredness, shortness of breath, restlessness, sweating and confusion. There would be fullness feeling in the chest and high pressure on this area. It is often described as squeezing pain or placing heavy weight on the chest.
The symptoms may vary from one person to other and also the rate of severity. However if you find new type of chest pain or discomfort you should seek immediate medical advice.
Stable angina is marked by the following features. It may develop when you put your heart to hard work like that of strenuous exercises or climbing stairs rapidly. This type of chest pain can be predicted and the same person would have experienced the same earlier. The duration of the pain will be maximum 5 minutes or even less. You may feel symptoms of indigestion and the pain may spread to left shoulder or back. The stable angina gets induced when you are in emotional state of mind.
Unstable angina type is more alarming than the earlier one. It may occur even when you are sleeping. The pain would be different and not the usual one. The pain may occur at sudden or unexpected moments. It may lasts for more time (probably 30 minutes or even one hour) than stable angina pain. Unstable angina is indicative of heart attack.
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