If you experience sharp pain at the left side of your chest, for about 30 seconds then disappears, not necessary it's a heart attack.
Generally, chest pain has many possible causes, all of which deserve medical attention. Basically, the causes of chest pain fall into two major categories — cardiac and non-cardiac causes.
Many conditions unrelated to your heart can cause chest pain, such as:
* Heartburn - Abdomen acid that washes up from your stomach into the tube (esophagus) that runs from your throat to your stomach can cause heartburn — a painful, burning sensation behind your breastbone (sternum).
* Panic attack. But you experience periods of intense fear accompanied by chest pain, rapid heartbeat, rapid breathing (hyperventilation), profuse sweating and shortness of breath, you may be experiencing a panic attack — a form of anxiety.
* Pleurisy. It is the sharp, localized chest pain that's made worse when you inhale or cough occurs when the membrane that lines your chest cavity and covers your lungs becomes inflamed. It is where Pleurisy may result from a wide variety of underlying conditions, including pneumonia and, rarely, autoimmune conditions, such as lupus. The autoimmune disease is one in which your body's immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue.
* Costochondritis. In this state — also known as Tietze's syndrome — the cartilage of your rib cage, particularly the cartilage that joins your ribs to your breastbone, becomes inflamed. The outcome is chest pain when you push on your sternum or on the ribs near your sternum.
* Pulmonary embolism - This reason of chest pain occurs when a blood clot becomes lodged in a lung (pulmonary) artery, blocking blood flow to lung tissue. It's uncommon for this life-threatening condition to occur without preceding risk factors, such as recent surgery or immobilization.
* Additional lung conditions - A distorted lung (pneumothorax), high blood pressure in the arteries carrying blood to the lungs (pulmonary hypertension) and asthma also can produce chest pain.
* Sore muscles - Constant pain syndromes, such as fibromyalgia, can produce persistent muscle-related chest pain.
* Upset ribs or pinched nerves – An injured or broken rib, as well as a pinched nerve, can cause chest pain.
* Swallowing disorders – These disorders of the esophagus, the tube that runs from your throat to your stomach, can make swallowing difficult and even painful. One kind is esophageal spasm, a condition that affects a small group of people with chest pain. So when people with this condition swallow, the muscles that normally move food down the esophagus are uncoordinated and this outcome in painful muscle spasms.
An additional swallowing disorder that also affects a small group of people with chest pain is achalasia (ak-uh-LA-zhuh). During this condition, the valve in the lower esophagus doesn't open properly to allow food to enter your stomach. In its place food backs up into the esophagus, causing pain.
* Shingles - This disease of the nerves caused by the chickenpox virus can produce pain and a band of blisters from your back around to your chest wall.
* Gallbladder or pancreas problems - Gallstones or inflammation of your gallbladder (cholecystitis) or pancreas can cause acute abdominal pain that radiates to your chest.
By Dr. Dave
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