Chest Pain Or Heart Failure? Let’s Find Out
Heart—the nucleus of the body—emotionally and physiologically—is more than just a pump. It’s a poet, a warrior, and sometimes, a drama queen. Welcome to the confusing crossroads of heart attack and heart failure. When your heart hurts, is it a call to your cardiologist or your best friend? When it pains, is it love or is it life-threatening? Chocolate or stent? Chocolate assuages a broken heart, and a stent mends the broken heart. HEARTATTACK HURTS, BUT HEART FAILURE KILLS It is easy to brush off chest pain as “just emotional,” but never ignore the real chest pains that come from poor health choices like that fast-food comfort binge or those late nights and stress-overdrive work schedules . These seem glamorous in the twenties, but they come back with a vengeance later. Welcome to the confusing crossroads of chest pain and heart failure. Let us untangle the wires between the emotional and the physical We say ‘my heart hurts’ far too casually — sometimes for lost love, sometimes f...