Chest pain is one of the most obvious symptoms of heart attack. The pain generally lasts for a few minutes and a discomfort of chest fullness is felt by majority of the patients.

Although the acute chest pain stays for a few minutes, the pain gets radiated and often we may feel pain in other parts of body. Sometimes patients of heart attack feel severe pain in shoulder, lower back region, and on arms. If by chance these sudden alarming pains are neglected, it may induce complication.

Abdominal pain is called referred pain in case of heart attack. In these situations, exerted pressure may create abdominal pain in severe intensity and this abdominal pain retains for longer period than chest or arm pain.

Sweating is one of the obvious symptoms of chest pain and heart attack problem. Mostly sweating is caused due to the undulation of blood pressure scale and due to feeling of severe unrest in the respiratory system of the patient. That is why along with sweating, some other symptoms like suffocation, nausea, urge to vomit, and fainting complications are also observed in the patients. In an average men suffer from these issues because their average negligence about general well being of health

There are multiple incidents heart attack is the immediate reflex action of panic attack. Although these incidents cannot be correlated, but it has been found that anxiety has a passive relation with heart attack.

Discomfort of lightheadedness is a minor by but quite evident symptom for impending heart attack. It has been observed in many instances that sudden incident of indigestion in men led toward the crisis of heart attack.

That is why, it is important to know the symptoms of heart attack.
According to American Heart Association, body and its reflex system sends one or more than one warning signals of heart attack, we need to read these warning signals and should consider these signals as the symptoms of heart attack.

The patient of heart disease may feel extra pressure in chest, most of the people feel a squeezing pain at the middle position of the chest and this sharp pain stays for one or two minutes at a stretch and goes away and comes back within next 2-3 minutes with same intensity.

The pain before heart attack is felt at intense level of discomfort. The pain is of spreading type and it gets spread to neck, shoulders, and on arms.

It has been described by several patients that the pin before heart attack is felt like tight burning sensation, and in many instances the victims of heart attack have felt the disease as heavy weight on chest. Apart from chest the pain may occur in abdomen, neck, shoulders, arms, jaw, and at the inner side of arms.

There are some additional symptoms are found in the patients before heart attack like nausea, lightheadedness, shortness in breath, intense sweating, anxiety, nervousness, and shivering and discomfort of chillness all around.
Apart from this, palpitation, paleness, fainting, nausea and sudden urge to vomit are the associated symptoms of ensuing heart attack.

However, the symptoms of heart attack may vary from one patient to another depending on the age and intensity of the attack. A heart attack can be happened at any time; therefore the knowledge about heart attack symptoms will be good for the heart patients. Being aware of the alarming signals of heart attack can prevent the ultimate massacre.

Research has shown the fact that in the first 6 hours the maximum damage caused by a heart attack takes place, so if there is any sign to have heart attack, it is better to call a doctor or to shift the patient immediately in the local nursing home or in hospital. Emergency treatment may retrieve the normal condition of heart and heart muscle and can minimize the loss of health potential due to heart attack. The diabetic patients are in high risk zone to be affected by heart attack and in their cases the symptoms are like discomfort in them but surprisingly they lack in showing the major symptoms of heart attack.

Most of the persons anticipate in hearing chest pain about a forthcoming heart attack although in people below the age of 40 chest pain implies many other causes, like Adding exercise and workouts in the daily schedule very often cause pain in chest this is called chest wall pain.

If there is a upper respiratory track infection caused by viral infection, you may have burning chest pain.
Before certain rash appears on body, you may feel certain kind of chest pain, which is caused by the shingles.

A broken rib will give you similar trouble especially when you are trying to take deep breath or you are coughing.

Gastro esophageal reflux initiates pain just under the rib bone it is called heartburn. This kind of pain needs intervention like eating something or taking some antacid.