Understanding Chest Pain and Heart Health

Your chest pain is actually your heart screaming because it is suffocating. That is the brutal

reality of ischemia, and you need to know the difference between a warning shot and a catastrophe.

If the pain fades when you rest or take nitroglycerin, that is stable angina. But if it feels

like a crushing weight that absolutely won't leave, that is a heart attack and tissue

is dying right now. It gets even scarier if the pump fails completely. Left-sided failure

drowns your lungs, while right-sided failure swells your body like a balloon. We fight back with

meds to drain the fluid and slow the rhythm, but remember that time is muscle,

so never ignore the pressure.