Pressure, fullness, burning or tightness in your chest.Crushingor searing pain that radiates to your back, neck, jaw, shoulders, and one or both arms. Pain that lasts more than a few minutes, gets worse with activity, goes away and comes back, or varies in intensity. Shortness of breath...
Muscle straincan cause chest tightness. If you’ve pulled a muscle—particularly in your chest, abdomen, or upper to middle back—you may experience chest tightness and pain when you're active. In some cases, the strain may be severe enough to cause pain when you breathe. Strain in the m...
Aortic dissection symptoms are: Chest pain that occurs suddenly and is described as “ripping” or “tearing” in nature, radiates to the back or between the shoulder blades. It can be an angina-type of pain, with shortness of breath, fainting, abdominal pain and symptoms of stroke. Pulmona...
and duration; aggravating factors; relieving factors; radiation of pain; and other associated symptoms. Myocardial pain is often described as substernal chest tightness or pressure that radiates to the left arm, shoulders, or jaw. Patients may also complain of diaphoresis, shortness of breath, nause...
Your pain radiates to your jaw, left arm, or between your shoulder blades in your back. You may experience sweating, nausea, dizziness, palpitations or shortness of breath. Angina is another type of heart-related chest pain. This pain occurs because your heart is not getting enough blood ...
When a heart attack does cause chest pain, it begins in the left side or center of the chest and typically spreads to the back, jaw or arms. In men, heart attack pain radiates to the left arm most of the time, but not always. In women, the pain is more likely to spread to eithe...
How to tell: Common symptoms that accompany chest pain related to stomach issues include vomiting, stomach bloatedness or discomfort and a burning feeling arising in the stomach that radiates up the chest with a sour taste in the mouth.
Chest pain appears in many forms, ranging from a sharp stab to a dull ache. Sometimes chest pain feels crushing or burning. In certain cases, the pain travels up the neck, into the jaw, and then radiates to the back or down one or both arms. Many different problems can cause chest pa...
Nontraumatic chest pain is one of the most common reasons that patients visit the emergency department; it is also frequently encountered in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. The differen...
Similar to GERD, gas pain can be mistaken for a heart attack. Sometimes, gas can push stomach acids into the throat, or it can build pressure in the stomach that radiates into the chest. Chest pain from muscle strain If you have ever “overdone it” with a physical activity and been ...