How heart hurts. Symptoms in women, symptoms, causes. The treated in menopause, osteochondrosis, mitral valve prolapse, a heart attack, IRR, neurosis, after stress, alcohol, a hangover from the experiences

According to statistics, men heart disease occur more frequently than women. However, recent indicators of cardiovascular problems and increased in women of different ages. In this regard, you need to know how it hurts the heart, and what symptoms indicate a particular disease in women, in order to understand how to treat it.

The heart often aches for diseases infarction, pulmonary disease and bronchial tubes, as well as problems with the spine. However, this is not all the reasons for which there are pains in the heart area.

Symptoms of heart pain in women

Heartaches, regardless of the cause, often have a number of common symptoms for which is quite difficult to identify the real cause of them.

Common symptoms include:

• chronic fatigue and lethargy during the day, regardless of whether or not people get enough sleep;
• Blood pressure drops;
• pain in the head;
• loss of coordination, dizziness, frequent;
• nausea, in advanced cases with vomiting;
• pain in the joints of the upper and lower extremities;
• rales in the sternum, difficult breathing, shortness sometimes;
• discomfort in the cardiac region;
• enhanced sweating;
• pale skin.

All these symptoms can point not only to heart problems, but also for the presence of diseases of the spine, lungs and other organs.

types of pain

How heart hurts (symptoms in women differ from men) in various diseases need to know to make it in time to provide the necessary assistance.

There are several types of pain, which can be seen in the table below:

kind of pain	Characteristic
aching	This type of pain makes the diagnosis, because it has not pronounced. It is difficult to determine exactly where it hurts. However, if the pain with numbness in the hand, it becomes difficult to move, it indicates a problem such as angina pectoris. Sometimes the pain may indicate problems with the spine.
stitching	There is a stabbing pain, often dramatically, due to neurosis. If the pain is sharp and goes for a few seconds, to see a doctor, you can hear that this is not a cause for concern. Most often it is associated with a recent myocardial stress and does not herald any major diseases.
compressing	Such pain often speak of the lack of oxygen in the heart muscle. Angina and ischemia - a disease that is often diagnosed at such pains. It can occur not only in the heart, but also in his left hand, in the lower part of the face.
sharp	This kind of pain occurs suddenly and can last just a few seconds or last for a long time. Such pain is often associated with the risk of angina, heart attack and other heart diseases.
searing	Burning in the region of the heart may occur during ischemia, myocardial infarction, as well as in diseases of the digestive tract or nervous system.
Pain when inhaling	It indicates more often than not on lung disease, and heart disease.

How heart hurts depending on the type of heart disease

How heart hurts (in women the symptoms are pronounced), it is dependent on the disease itself.

angina

Angina appears due to circulatory disorders in the coronary arteries are responsible for supplying the heart muscle with oxygen. As a rule, there is a pain after strenuous exercise or after stress.

Develop angina in women who:

• are heavy;
• consume large amounts of alcohol;
• are inveterate smokers;
• They have such a disease as diabetes mellitus, which also contributes to increase in weight;
• have an increased pressure;
• have a genetic predisposition.

Most often the disease occurs in the elderly, but sometimes it can be observed in young women.

The main symptoms of angina include:

• paroxysmal pain, which, as it compresses or presses on the heart;
• there is pain in the left arm;
• Pain is rising character, but after taking nitroglycerin passes quickly;
• painful sensations appear at the top left or in the middle of the sternum.

Most often the attacks are provoked strong physical exertion, cold, overeating, nervous overexertion.

heart attack

Symptoms of a heart attack have a pronounced character, so to confuse the disease with something else very difficult.

How heart hurts (symptoms in women are similar in nature with the male) in myocardial:

• pain appears in the chest;
• a stinging character, like a knife thrust to the heart;
• It lasts a long time, sometimes for several hours, if not provided timely assistance;
• often gives pain in the left arm, the neck, under the shoulder blade.

Along with the pain you experience the following symptoms, which indicate the disease:

• dyspnea;
• pale skin;
• lightheadedness;
• quickened breath;
• the pain is not reduced at rest and when receiving validol or nitroglycerin;
• there is the fear of death.

inflammatory processes

Inflammatory heart disease include myocarditis, endocarditis, pericarditis. All of them are caused by inflammatory processes that develop in the heart and its shell.

There is a group of diseases due to the following reasons:

1. Infectious. The disease can trigger a variety of viruses and bacteria.
2. Toxic. The bacteria release toxins that affect the heart shell.
3. The presence in the body of disease processes that affect the internal organs.
4. Injury and presence of various tumors. This cause contributes to the development of pericarditis.
5. Impaired metabolism.

The following symptoms may occur in inflammatory diseases of the heart:

• fatigue and weakness;
• heart palpitations;
• discomfort in the top or in the middle of the sternum;
• general malaise;
• dyspnea;
  
• it may sometimes be a pain in the joints.

Aneurysm

Aneurysm - an extension of the vascular lumen due to pathology.

The causes of the disease often include:

• pathology development in the vascular wall;
• the presence of such a disease, such as atherosclerosis;
• trauma;
• surgeries on the carotid artery;
• Congenital heart defect.

An aneurysm is dangerous because it can break, so that can develop several types of complications:

• heart attack;
• brain abscess;
• opening bleeding in the lungs;
• hemothorax.

The main symptoms of an aneurysm include:

• appearance formation which pulsates;
• occurrence of tinnitus;
• dizziness and frequent headaches;
• hoarseness, which is caused by compression of a nerve in the throat;
• arrhythmia.;
• frequent shortness of breath;
• fatigue and drowsiness;
• deformation of the nails and fingertips.

thromboembolism

Thromboembolism develops as a result of the separated blood clot. As a result of a blood clot occludes the pulmonary artery. This condition is life-threatening.

Thromboembolism may occur as a result of the following reasons:

• presence of hypertension;
• heart failure;
• phlebeurysm;
• the use of drugs that increase the viscosity of the blood;
• cancers;
• being overweight;
• passive lifestyle;
• heart attack;
• diabetes;
• heredity;
• unhealthy lifestyle.

Symptomatology of the disease when affecting the brain vessels as follows:

• irritability and tearfulness;
• paralysis of certain parts of the body, the face;
• stunned state;
• drowsiness;
• headache;
• nausea and vomiting;
• Pain in the eyes.

Pulmonary embolism has other symptoms, which are expressed in the form:

• impairment of consciousness;
• pallor and blueness of the skin;
• cough with blood;
• arrhythmia;
• profuse sweating;
• pain in the heart, as in angina, radiating to the left arm and under the shoulder blade.

Ischemia

Anoxia manifested as a result of that to the heart of an insufficient amount of blood flows.

The main factors causing the development of ischemia include:

• hypertension;
• smoking;
• Obesity, which develops as a result of diabetes or other causes;
• excessive consumption of fatty foods.

The main symptoms of ischemia include:

1. Pain in the chest, behind the breastbone. Most often they appear as burning, stabbing pain sometimes appears as if stuck in the body of the knife.
2. Shortness of breath, which is evident because of the lack of air. First shortness occurs rarely, but as the disease progresses it occurs in each attack.
3. Heart palpitations.
4. Malaise. It is expressed in the form of dizziness and fatigue. Often a person can faint.
5. Angina. In the chest area there is a feeling of tightness and severe burning. The pain may move into the region of the blade and left arm.

Prolapse

The pain often occurs in the chest on the left and is not related to physical activity. Pain do not pass by nitroglycerin. Aching pain, oppressive. Sometimes a headache and dizziness. Frequent palpitations - one of the main symptoms of prolapse.

Heart disease

Distinguish congenital and acquired heart defects. In most cases (90%) defect appears after rheumatic fever. This disease develops after severe sore throat, tonsillitis, which act on the heart, nervous system and joints.

The main symptoms of heart disease include:

• fatigue even at minimum load;
• shortness of breath;
• appearance after exercise pain;
• heart palpitations;
• chest discomfort;
• dizziness;
• cough with blood-streaked.

Pressing pain, sometimes sharp.

Heart pain in women with diseases and conditions are not of cardiac origin

Heart pain often can be confused with the pain associated with spinal problems or problems associated with stressful situations.

Intercostal neuralgia

Intercostal neuralgia occurs when squeezed or inflammation of nerves between the ribs. Pain is quite strong and often occur in the region of the heart, which does not identify the disease at once.

Intercostal neuralgia causes could be:

• various back injuries and the front of the chest;
• the presence of degenerative disc disease, scoliosis or other spine pathologies;
• intoxication as a result of receiving strong medicaments and in the presence of visceral diseases;
• malignancy in the lung;
• lowered immunity;
• allergic reactions;
• tuberculosis, brucellosis and other infectious diseases.

How heart hurts (symptoms in women with the disease are very different) for intercostal neuralgia: it is herpes and paroxysmal in nature, which is greatly enhanced when you sneeze and cough.

In addition, the disease is accompanied by other symptoms:

• skin in some places may lose sensitivity;
• increased sweating;
• palpation patient pain increases portion;
• pale skin.

Osteochondrosis, herniated discs

In these pathologies pain blunt nature applies in the area of ​​the heart, between the shoulder blades and in the hand. Man becomes difficult to change the position of the body, turn the neck, raise your hand. In addition, these actions cause severe pain. Most often it occurs in the evening or night hours.

When a herniated disc following symptoms:

• pain in the chest area, as well as hand and shoulder pulling character;
• headaches and dizziness;
• pressure peaks;
• numbness of the fingers on a hand.

heart neurosis

Pathology susceptible children and young people and the elderly. often cardiac neurosis diagnosed in women (about 75% of all cases).

Pathology of the following symptoms:

• painful sensations from the left side of the chest;
• fatigue;
• shivering in the chest;
• squeezing pain in the heart, grows into the burning and stinging sensations;
• a sharp decrease of pressure, and then raising it;
• anxiety for no apparent reason;
• dyspnea;
• insomnia;
• redness or paleness of the skin;
• fast or slow heart beat.

lung disease

The feeling of compression and other types of chest pain may occur because of bronchitis, pleurisy and other lung diseases.

In addition, the patient observed other symptoms:

• cough;
• wheezing in the chest;
• labored breathing;
• temperature rise.

Stress and anxiety

Heartache begins with stress as a result of neurosis, which is often triggered by hormonal reorganization of an organism, viral infections, excessive nervous tension long period time.

When stress heartache can wear stinging or oppressive character.

It should calm down and normalize the mode of the day and the pain will pass.

Hangover

Alcohol for the body - it is a poison that poisons all internal organs. Often, when a person has a hangover can feel pain in the heart area. It has a crushing and concise. In addition, the person also there are symptoms such as arrhythmia, heart palpitations, shortness of breath, edema. As a result of these symptoms manifest lack of oxygen, causing the risk of stroke.

climacteric

How heart hurts at the climax, if the symptoms in women are similar to heart disease, it can be understood if we pay attention to obvious signs.

They are:

• aching pain, which can take place and start anew;
• the pain lasts for several hours, and sometimes days;
• pain provoked by stressful situations;
• the pain does not subside after taking nitroglycerin;
• pain can be eliminated with the help of analgesics;
• appearance chills;
• hot flushes.

Most of these pains did not appeal concerns and threaten life.

Diseases of the digestive tract

Often pathologies gastrointestinal pain appears to the left, in the heart. Pancreatitis is an acute form is sometimes mistaken for a heart attack, as the spasm shifts slightly and gives the heart. In this case, the pain is very strong and sharp. Often the pain in my heart when analgesics are receiving. This factor does not indicate cardiac abnormalities, and a problem with the other internal organs.

Diagnostics

To identify, resulting in pain in the left side of the heart, it is necessary to make a diagnosis, which is as follows:

1. Access to a doctor for consultation. First you need to consult a cardiologist, who will examine the patient, listen to his complaints and appoint necessary research. In the future, if cardiac pathology will be excluded, you will need to visit other specialists. If the pain in the heart of the spine as a result of any pathology, it is necessary to address to the neurologist, osteopath. If the pain associated with gastrointestinal diseases, the need to consult a gastroenterologist.
2. ECG holding. This study will determine the heart rate when the body is at rest, as well as to determine the work of the heart muscle. With ECG ischemia can be determined, as well as detect failures tachycardia and heart rate.
3. Holter. If during an electrocardiogram revealed no abnormalities, then assigned this type of research. It allows you to more accurately determine the diagnosis.
4. Ultrasound of the heart. It helps determine the condition of the heart.

If the pain in the heart area of ​​any other reason, the diagnosis is carried out in other ways. It can be assigned to chest X-ray, which will identify or exclude pulmonary disease. To determine problems with the spine prescribe MRI or CT.

How to provide treatment

If a person knows what hurts the heart, the treatment is carried out as follows:

1. Nitroglycerin helps with angina or Cardiomagnyl. At elevated pressure receiving bisoprolol, Nebival and others. If the pain persists for a long time, then you need to call an ambulance.
2. Pericarditis help analgesics.
3. When osteochondrosis and hernia of intervertebral disks should help Diclofenac, Nimid and other painkillers. Then you need to see a specialist who can prescribe physical therapy, physiotherapy and massage.
4. In diseases of the gastrointestinal tract is necessary to stick to a diet, do not eat oily and spicy. In addition, your doctor may prescribe medications such as Omez, De-Nol, Motilium.

Nontraditional methods of treatment

For the treatment of diseases in which the heart aches, often with medication use traditional medicines. They should be used only after consultation with your doctor.

To eliminate the pain in my heart to make a special infusion of an equal number of tincture of hawthorn and valerian.

Into the water was added 25 drops little by holding means and the mouth, swallowed. Soothing effect on the body has a mint infusion. 1 tbsp. l. pour 300 ml hot water and infused for an hour. Taking a drink of 120 mL, 3 times a day.

If the heart is ill during pregnancy?

Discomfort in the heart during pregnancy can occur for the following reasons:

• vascular dystonia;
• ischemia;
• inflammatory diseases of the heart;
• degenerative disc disease, or herniated discs;
• changes in weather conditions;
• fatigue;
• vacation in an uncomfortable position.

Regardless of which there are pains in the heart, a pregnant woman should consult a doctor. Self-medication in this case, is dangerous for the unborn child.

On how the heart aches, as well as any symptoms in women during this occur, it depends on setting of a diagnosis and method of treatment. Run heartaches not recommended, especially if they persist for a long time, as the disease can be serious and dangerous not only for health but for life.

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