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Suggest Remedy For Severe Chest Pains

Hello, i am a 49 year old smoker with a long line of heart problems in family history. Father passed away at 53 of heart attack, mom, bypass, brother-bypass/10 stints and sister born with hole in her heart. I have high cholestrol, high BP 162/118 and do not drink alcohol. today i went for the nuclear stress test, chest xray and blood work. my question is this...i have chest pains, some very severe when going up my stairs at home and it moves down my left arm. after resting for a bit, it eases, but i also can lay down to sleep at nights and the pain hits and is so crushing that i have to sit up and try and breathe my way through it. Could this just be angina? And what would be the next step after a failed stress test?
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Hi,
The symptoms you are telling are typical of angina.
You have a lot of risk factors like high cholesterol, bp, male gender & most importantly a very strong family history and therefore high chances of getting a cardiac disease.
You have done right doing the stress test.
If it comes wrong next step would be Angiography to definitive diagnosis. Treatment will be as per its report.
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Suggest Remedy For Severe Chest Pains

Hi, The symptoms you are telling are typical of angina. You have a lot of risk factors like high cholesterol, bp, male gender & most importantly a very strong family history and therefore high chances of getting a cardiac disease. You have done right doing the stress test. If it comes wrong next step would be Angiography to definitive diagnosis. Treatment will be as per its report. Thanks