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What Causes Pressure In Head Along With Heaviness In Chest?
Question: My husband is feeling head pressure {not a headache} and heaviness in his chest
Brief Answer:
Does not sound cardiac or neurologic
Detailed Answer:
Good afternoon. My name is Dr. Saghafi and I'd like to give you an opinion on your husband who I know you are concerned about. The symptoms you've just described certainly do not have any of the true classic feel of either a coronary event or a neurological event. If you'll simply check him to be sure he can appropriately respond to questions you ask him and then, ask him to raise each of his limbs to your verbal commands you will quickly check his neurological status. Certainly, pressure in the head can be anything from a tension headache to sinus congestion or allergy type of symptom. As far the heaviness in the chest if he is not having any difficulty actually breathing and does not appear distressed for air in any way again, this is not a picture of coronary vasospasm or MI in progress. If you have a blood pressure cuff in the house you can certainly use it to get his numbers and see how they compare to what he usually runs. Also, if you know how to check a pulse you can check to be sure that it is not racing or skipping beats or anything odd like that.
So long as he's not nauseous you may offer him something simple to eat or drink. Perhaps, he's mildly hypoglycemic if he didn't eat very well today. You can also check his temperature to see he's not running a low grade fever.
However, do not feel the least bit hesitant to call for the emergency squad if his condition were to suddenly change in any way. If he were to begin to complain of chest pain radiating down EITHER arm or into the neck or if he were to become suddenly nauseous and throw up then, you may have an emergency to deal with and the first thing to do would be to call 911. At that point you may ask the operator if you could give him an aspirin to chew on while the squad were to arrive.
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Does not sound cardiac or neurologic
Detailed Answer:
Good afternoon. My name is Dr. Saghafi and I'd like to give you an opinion on your husband who I know you are concerned about. The symptoms you've just described certainly do not have any of the true classic feel of either a coronary event or a neurological event. If you'll simply check him to be sure he can appropriately respond to questions you ask him and then, ask him to raise each of his limbs to your verbal commands you will quickly check his neurological status. Certainly, pressure in the head can be anything from a tension headache to sinus congestion or allergy type of symptom. As far the heaviness in the chest if he is not having any difficulty actually breathing and does not appear distressed for air in any way again, this is not a picture of coronary vasospasm or MI in progress. If you have a blood pressure cuff in the house you can certainly use it to get his numbers and see how they compare to what he usually runs. Also, if you know how to check a pulse you can check to be sure that it is not racing or skipping beats or anything odd like that.
So long as he's not nauseous you may offer him something simple to eat or drink. Perhaps, he's mildly hypoglycemic if he didn't eat very well today. You can also check his temperature to see he's not running a low grade fever.
However, do not feel the least bit hesitant to call for the emergency squad if his condition were to suddenly change in any way. If he were to begin to complain of chest pain radiating down EITHER arm or into the neck or if he were to become suddenly nauseous and throw up then, you may have an emergency to deal with and the first thing to do would be to call 911. At that point you may ask the operator if you could give him an aspirin to chew on while the squad were to arrive.
If this information has been of value to you please feel free to send back a little written feedback of how well I addressed your needs. A star rating of the question would also be very much appreciated.
In the future please feel free to send me questions directly by looking me up at:
bit.ly/drdariushsaghafi
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