Joe says:

Everyone - not just cardiac patients - needs to know the answer to this one. Among the most common symptoms are pain, pressure or a sense of fullness under the breastbone that lasts two minutes or more. Men often say the pain feels like "having an elephant on my chest": women typically experience a milder chest pain. The sensation may radiate to the shoulders, neck, jaw, back or arms. Or it may not. Women generally experience a radiating pain throughout the neck, jaw, shoulders, arms, back or abdomen; in general, their symptoms are more subtle. Men tend to have sharp pain in their arms and shoulders. Dizziness, sweating, nausea and shortness of breath may also occur.
1 | Jun. 30, 2008 at 6:56pm