HEART SYMPTOMS : YOU
SHOULD NEVER IGNORE
We often
come across many situations in our daily life wherein we hear incidences of
people, dying of heart problems. Our relatives, close and distant, neighbours,
friend's, or any one for that sake, at times bid their goodbye to mother earth,
dying of a heart condition. The subject of curiosity is, many of these people,
a lot of times, mention occurence of some typical symptoms within them, when
they have one such incidence, ofcourse this being spoken for the ones who have
managed to survive an attack or any heart condition of the same likes.
Here are
a few symptoms which should alarm you about an underlying heart condition :
- Chest pain : this is the most common
presenting symptom of an impending heart attack. The chest pain can be continuous or maybe be intermittent.
Typically, it increases on exertion and is minimal on rest. As described by the
patients, it's as if someone's has put one's fist right into their chest, or as
if there's a heavy object throbbed into their chest wall. Though not a
confirmatory marker of a heart disease, it's occurence is quite a few times
associated with heart diseases.
- Excess fatigue - especially when you do a little bit of
strenuous work, which normally wouldn't have had been a problem, but now
presents with excessive gasping. A typical example would be, climbing the
stairs. The patient would classically mention this example wherein he / she
would normally take those two flights of stairs to work without any discomfort
but now prefer taking the elevator because of excess fatigue and breathlessness
on climbing .
- Peripheral bluing - again, not very specific for heart diseases,
but is a definite finding in severe heart diseases wherein the pumping
efficiency of the heart is compromised. The heart therefore is unable to pump the
oxygenated blood and thus the organs are deficit of the needed oxygen.
- Chest Pain radiating to left
shoulder: this is a very typical finding seen in a patient with heart diseases
like angina or an impending heart attack. The pain as described by the patient,
starts off from the chest, typically on the left side, and progresses towards
the left shoulder tip. It can work out the other way round,too.
- Syncope- a medical word,
translating to attacks of loss of
consciousness, exacerbated by heavy strenuous work, exercise, etc. This happens
because the heart, when subjected to extra work, is unable to pump efficient
blood to the body, eventually the blood supply to the brain is hampered, and
the person loses consciousness
- Atypical symptoms : they include blurring
of vision, acidity, nausea vomiting,
peripheral edema. These symptoms are seen in a lot many other conditions
too and thus are highly non-specific.
If one has a
feeling he's suffering from majority of these symptoms, he should ideally
consult a doctor as soon as possible. Neglecting these events is highly
unadvised as they may be the just the tell tale markers, of an impending
heart attack
