Know your chest pain easily

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the main cause of death in America. Each year hundreds of thousands of Americans die of cardiovascular disease. Many people have no idea that they even have CAD. As a matter of fact, is the first indication that many people cardiovascular disease when they have a massive heart attack, or worse, experience sudden cardiac death.

Chest pain is one of the characteristics of CAD. Some people (like women or diabetes) can have severe heart disease, or even suffer a heart attack with no chest pain! Most cases of chest pain are not related to the heart. Other common causes of chest pain include spasm of the esophagus, heartburn and chest wall pain (for example, a strained muscles of lifting furniture). While the list of possible causes of chest pain is rather long, is the purpose of this article, please consider showing your symptoms in detail, so you have these symptoms to your doctor forward can. When you experienced chest pains think about the following questions. (If you have chest pain or serious with a high risk of having a heart attack, call 911.)

1. how often do you the pain?

2. how long do episodes of pain last?

3. the pain radiate anywhere, such as the shoulders, neck, or jaw?

4. do you experience shortness of breath, nausea, heart racing, dizziness or sweating with chest pain?

5. what things bring on the pain and what make things disappear?

6. What is the most comfortable position for you when you are experiencing the pain?

7. one of your close relatives had a heart attack, and if so, who they were and what were their estimated age they recorded their first attack when?

8. you smoke? Did you ever smoke in the past, and if so, how much?

9. have you ever told, you have high cholesterol?

10. a deep breath or coughing influences the pain?

11. the same kind of pain on your chest to reproduce?

12. Is the pain a feeling of pressure or squeezing, sharp, achy, burning or boring?

13. have you recently been coughing?

14. has food safety affect the pain? If so, how does it affect the pain?

15. you are belching or passing gas more than usual?

16. What have you tried for the pain? Did the work, and if so, how long did it take to get relief and how long did the relief last?

17. Is the pain at its worst in its beginning or as time moves on?

18. have you ever been diagnosed with asthma?

19. There Is no pain in the breasts?

Copyright, A. Maria Hester, M.D.