Angina pectoris-signs and symptoms

Angina is caused by the area of your heart muscle not enough oxygen-rich blood get chest pain.

Angina is often experienced an s pain in the chest. That pain can as a pressing pressure, a density or a burning sensation in the chest feel and can vary from very mild symptoms until the feeling that someone has put your heat in a vise and slowly is crushing it or it can feel like a stabbing pain or numbness.

The cause of this is a reduction of oxygen-rich blood reaching the heart due to some blockage of the blood vessels that supply blood.

It is a sign of coronary heart disease, but it is different than a heart attack. Where a heart attack threatens to lead to permanent damage to your heart muscle an angina attack is not. It is an indicator that there is a problem and it is essential that you take some action to improve your situation before a heart attack or a stoke.

An angina attack to recognise and distinguish it from a heart attack is normally not terribly difficult.

The pain of an angina attack is usually focused on the heart with a pain that reach through levels that:
o could be as spirit as a feeling of indigestion or gas,
o can be specific to the heart area,
o can area of the breast, but not in the immediate heart area,
o can pain in your neck, throat or even in your arms
o could get the feeling that you are choking and make you feel that they kill weights are poor.

The effects of angina will normally disappear within a few minutes, 3 to 5. They certainly should not last more than 10 minutes if you have symptoms lasting 20 min you're probably a heart attack, not an angina attack, and should immediately seek medical support.

Other symptoms that are associated with angina can be:
o sweating,
o nausea,
o vomiting,
o fear,
o shortness of breath,
o sound in the ears,
o loss of speech,
o dizziness,
o fainting.

A feature of the angina is that it normally predictable.

It tends to occur under the same conditions every time.
o an angina attack is often associated with exercise, especially aerobic exercise or even just walking, especially after a meal.
o Stress or emotional anxiety.
o smoke.
o Eat heavy meals.
o exposure to very hot or cold temperatures.

If you have angina symptoms then get medical help immediately. If the symptoms are leading to a heart attack than medical attention can prevent the attack. In a case where there is a heart attack than medical attention can significantly reduce the damage to the heart muscle that causes the attack.

Once you are stable than warning the angina attack seriously and look at the options that you have to make sure that your risk of further attacks. You can thank for the problem you've had because for 40% of people who die to fatal heart attacks, the first singing that there is a problem is the attack that kills them.

In your case, you had a warning so that you can examine options to prevent further attacks and ways to improve your cardiovascular health, so you can go on a normal, healthy life.