Heart Attack and Pain

The decreased flow of blood to the cardiac muscle or the myocardium can have consequence of the ischemic cardiac disease with the pain of chest and even myocardium or a heart attack. This pain can be along the left, deep chest with the sternum or with the two arms, jaws, neck and back. The persistent pain can be characterized like crushing. No change of the pain occurs with breathing or modifying the position of the patient. A slow heart rate, hypotension, giddiness, disappearing and sweating can be associated it. Sometimes nausea and the vomiting will imitate an abdominal problem.

The heart attack results when a clot of blood completely blocks the blood of coronary artery to the muscle of heart. It will cause the death of the muscle of heart. It is noted that the formation of blood clot during a heart attack is usually of cholesterol on the interior wall of a coronary artery.

A heart attack can cause the pain, the cardiac arrest and instability of the heart. The instability of the heart can then cause the abnormal rhythm representing a danger to the life of heart - also known under the name of arrhythmia.

Normally, one can observe some warnings for a potential victim of heart attack. A person with pain will not be necessarily a victim of heart attack, but the pain or the pressure is indeed a common symptom of heart attack. The cardiac pain of chest is often vague and can be described like pressure or tightening or any other faintness.

The heart attack often occurs early in the late morning. It is due at the higher levels of adrenalin released by adrenals during the hours of morning. The adrenalin increased in blood circulation can contribute to the rupture. The incidence of the heart attacks “quiet” can be much higher for diabetics.

Generally a victim of heart attack can complain about: pressure on chest - sweating -pain of jaw - heartburn and indigestion - higher back pains, pain of arm (generally the left arm, but can be one or the other) and nausea.