Q What are the symptoms felt when heart attack starts? Are there any early signs?
Heart attack generally progress gradually but may percieve as an sudden happening if warning signs of it are missed. These very early warning can greatly vary with every individual and even in person who had previously suffered from heart attack. Many a times, people does not know what is happening and can not even describe the symptoms. However, chest pain or discomfort and anxiety are most common experiences with heart attack. Here we are enlisting various symptoms that can give warning about upcoming heart attack: Pain or squeezing sensation in chest, heaviness or discomfort in chest, pain behind chest bone that may resemble heartburn, jaw pain, toothache, headache, epigastric discomfort with or without nausea and vomiting, sweating, chest pain going to left arm, shortness of breathe, fatigue or general weakness, upper back pain, etc. However, some people may not experience any prior symtoms and it appear as sudden onset. This is termed as silent heart attack, which is more common with persons with other health issues, masking the symptoms of heart attack, like in people with diabetes.