Chest pain stress

Chest pain stress or stress is one cause of chest pain and as the person reacts more to the pain, it creates more stress.

While this type of stress related chest pain is often frightening because many believe they're in the process of a coronary even,t it isn't necessarily life threatening. Stress chest pain comes from a series of events that take place in the body and mind of the individual.

Chest pain often comes from other things besides coronary distress. The body's nervous system is closely related. Some pains from the heart go to locations that are near the place where signals from other areas of the chest arrive. It's often difficult for a person to differentiate the location and cause of the original pain. The mind often works overtime, causing the person experiencing the pain to believe that it traveled down the arm or other areas that indicate a coronary.

When you are experincing chest pain stress ,the stress triggers hormones that set off the "flight or fight" response. It is a primitive protection and sometimes goes amuck. In today's world, we no longer have to worry about a hungry predatory animal stalking us for lunch. While there are dangers in this world, many of the things we react to aren't immediately dangerous, but simply cause a stressful situation.

If you're having a bad day at work, the boss is yelling and work piles up, it's enough to trigger the hormones to shut parts of your body down and prepare for a fight or flight. However, life isn't that simple and these situations don't require running or punching, as much as you might want to do one or both of these. Your body doesn't know the difference between simple stress and situations where you have to run or fight so it produces the changes regardless of the cause or actions.

The changes include a redirection of the blood flow from digestion to the muscles or limbs. This provides energy to get away or helps you pack a whollop in your punch. Again, most of the stress in today's world doesn't require a punch and running simply won't change things.

Another change from stress makes you breathe faster. It increases and intensifies your reactions. You become more aware of your surroundings, as would be necessary if you were trying to escape a predator. Your pupils dilate and an increase in your visual acuity. Your muscles begin to tight and contract in your body's effort to prepare you for your escape or fight. This also causes the muscles in the chest to tighten and cause chest pain.

Once the chest pain stress begins, the fear of a coronary often causes more stress and increases the pain in the chest. However, simply because there is a potential for the pain coming from stress, if there is a possibility that it is from a coronary, it is always best to take the most cautious action and immediately see your physician.

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