What are the atypical symptoms associated with chest pain for women?

Dr. Daniel R. Spogen, MD on behalf of Univ. of Nev. School of Medicine, Family Medicine

Family Practitioner

Atypical symptoms associated with chest pain for women may include the following:

shortness of breath
weakness
nausea
vomiting
palpitations
lightheadedness

Atypical chest pain associated with acute coronary syndrome is more likely to occur in individuals that are older, diabetic and/or women.

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Pain

Pain is your body telling you that you have hurt it. This is a good thing, important when you are injured. It can also help diagnose problems with your body. Sometimes pain continues long after it's necessary. Amputees report phantom pain in the legs or arms they no longer have. There are different kinds of pain, and describing the type is useful in diagnosis: recurring, constant, steady, knife-like, radiating, sharp, dull. Medicines that dull pain are analgesics. Those that kill all feeling are anesthetics.

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