Angina Symptoms

Aside from the tightening of your chest and the pain you might feel in your heart, there are other symptoms that can point to angina. Here are some of these symptoms:

• Angina can be usually felt as any of these symptoms: pressure across the chest, a marked heaviness in your chest, the tightening of the area across your chest or a squeezing pain in the same area.
• You can also feel a tightening of the breastbone in the back when you are suffering from an angina.
• Other symptoms of angina may include heartburn or burping constantly due to acid reflux, indigestion, sweating and shortness of breath.
• You can also expect to experience symptoms like weakness, nausea, and cramping when you have angina.
• Usually these symptoms emerge when a person suffers from stress that is either emotional or physical. These symptoms can also emerge after a person eats a lot.
• There are two kinds of anginas that share these symptoms: stable and unstable angina. Stable angina is predictable and often lasts for a short time after an exertion or stress. Unstable angina exhibits more severe forms of these symptoms and can happen any time out of the blue. This is the more dangerous of the two anginas.

Angina Signs

Angina symptoms are pain spreading from left arm, back, jaw, neck and shoulder with or without chest pain. Increase in heart rate, palpitation, dizziness is other indicator of this condition.

Stable, Unstable Angina Symptoms

Feeling of indigestion, pain in chest while exercising or climbing stairs. This pain is for a short duration and disappears once you rest or take medicines. In unstable angina sign pain lasts for as long as 30 minutes signaling a heart attack.

Angina Symptoms in Women

Sharp pain in chest, nausea, breath shortness, sweating and stomach pain are common female angina symptoms.