Everyone is different but in my case it always started as pain and wasn’t for a while after the pain started that it became harder to breathe. If I stopped and rested for a few minutes the pain would stop and I would never get to the breathless stage. I only ever had right side pain. If you have a gtn spray or you take nitrates the pain will usually subside quickly - it’s actually a bit of a marker for angina. Really you should be talking to your GP if you have concerns about angina.
I had stable angina and it was always exercise induced.
The pain started with a knot behind my right shoulder blade about the size of a walnut is how I pictured it. This would gradually change to being a burning pain that radiated out and forward into the right hand side of my chest. If I let it get this far My breathing would start to labour. The pain never progressed to my left side.
Hi , I suffer from unstable angina ever since my HA in 2011 , it can happen at any time , I can be walking , sitting down and even asleep . Mine is pretty typical I suppose , feels like a tennis ball in my chest then gets heavier , left arm aches and tingly and I get a horrible pain up the back of my neck and into my jaw. Sometimes it goes away with gtn sometimes not which is when I end up in A&E .
Hello 👋 My diagnosis is Microvascular Angina. The angiogram showed no significant problem with the main arteries. I have episodes every day at some point, but almost always I’m woken up during the night with them. The pain is central chest radiating to right shoulder and down my left arm as far as my wrist. It feels like a deep dull ache and I have to sit upright. The gtn spray helps after a few minutes. If I have more than one episode or if the episode requires more than one gtn spray I always feel exhausted and have a deep bruised feeling in my chest the next day. I’m also on other meds. Hope this helps and I hope you get some peace soon 😊
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