Question 1

What does a heart blockage feel like?

Accepted Answer

Pressure or tightness in the chest, pain in the chest, back, jaw, and other areas of the upper body that lasts more than a few minutes or that goes away and comes back, shortness of breath

Question 2

What causes pain in middle of chest between breasts?

Accepted Answer

It can be due to heart attack or gastro-oesophageal reflux disease. When a person is obese or have a lax esophageal sphincter there is a chance for stomach juices to get reflexed upto esophagus, causing burning pain or tightness in the middle of the chest.

Question 3

Does your body warn you before a heart attack?

Accepted Answer

There are some early symptoms which may suggest an impending heart attack. They are chest pain or discomfort which may feel like pressure, squeezing, fullness and pain may radiate to one or both arms, back, neck jaw along with Shortness of breath, sweating, nausea, light-headedness or fainting, upper abdominal discomfort, unsual fatigue, vomiting.

Question 4

What does appendix pain feel like?

Accepted Answer

Normal appendix do not cause any pain unless it is inflammed. During that period, pain usually starts around umbilicus and later travel to right lower abdomen where appendix is situated. It is a sharp shooting type of pain which increases on walking, coughing and pressig on that area. Additional symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite and fever may be present.

Question 5

What are the warning signs of clogged arteries?

Accepted Answer

Symptoms and signs of clogged arteries depends on the site of artery involvement. In hands and legs, symptoms are cold extremities and pain in limbs on exertion. In heart, symptoms are chest pain, shortness of breath, palpitations. In brain, symptoms are sudden loss of vision, dizziness, weakness of one side of body and/or face.

Question 6

Can gastric problems cause chest pain?

Accepted Answer

When a person is obese or have a lax esophageal sphincter there is a chance for stomach juices to get reflexed upto esophagus, causing burning sensation or tightness under the sternum (breast bone) in the chest.

What does a heart blockage feel like?

What does a heart blockage feel like?

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