What Causes Severe Nausea, Upper Abdominal Pain And Excessive Sweating?

Posted on Tue, 11 Oct 2016

Question: On Saturday, I experienced what I thought was a panic attack. This is really out of the ordinary for me because I have no anxiety and am a fairly low stress individual. I was in my car driving to an appointment and just before I exited the freeway, the symptoms came on very suddenly---extreme nausea, severe upper abdominal pain and after I got my car parked, I started sweating profusely and was very shaky. These symptoms disappeared after about 30 minutes and other than a headache, I have been fine. Could these also be symptoms of a heart attack? I am a woman, 56 years old, excellent health, and work out 5 days a week, no history of heart attack or heart problems in my family.

Answered by Dr. Dr. Chintan Solanki (27 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
check up needed

Detailed Answer:
Hello,

Thanks for writing to us.

Symptoms you mentioned at age of 56 first time without any specific event can be symptoms of heart problem. You need to go for physical examination by a doctor and after that as per doctor's instruction investigations like EKG, TMT and 2D- Echo of heart once to rule out any cardiac problem.

When no abnormality found we can call it panic attack.

Please consult doctor soon.

Wish you good health and normal reports.

Hope I have answered your query, I will be happy to help further.
Regards,
Dr.Chintan Solanki.

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar