Surely every person knows firsthand how unpleasant it is when a heart tingles. As a rule, with minor pain in this area, people do not make an appointment with the doctor, do not undergo an electrocardiogram, but simply take vitamins in tablets, hoping that is enough. Doctors warn: if heart pain has become a constant, and not a single symptom, then you need to contact the clinic and undergo an examination. Pills have an analgesic effect, but they do not eliminate the source of pain in the heart. The reasons can be very different: both directly related to the function of the heart, and not related to it.
The most terrible reason that the heart constantly tingles may be coronary artery disease. If left untreated on time, the outcome can be fatal. Ischemia occurs when the necessary dose of oxygen is not delivered to the muscles of the heart. Atherosclerosis of the coronary vessels leads to the formation of plaques that prevent the penetration of oxygen to the heart. At the initial stage of the disease, a person notes that his heart tingles with fatigue and with emotional overstrain. Further, the pain behind the sternum reminds of itself even when the person is absolutely calm. Ischemia often affects men over the age of fifty. However, today this disease is significantly “younger”. This is due to the bad habits of modern youth: smoking, addiction to alcohol, malnutrition and obesity as a result of it. Prolonged oxygen starvation of the heart muscle often turns into myocardial infarction.
Akin to ischemia, a tingling disease in the heart, is angina pectoris. With this ailment, pain occurs suddenly after physical exertion or stress and can also lead to instant death. Distinguish between stable and progressive angina pectoris. Progressive angina pectoris can lead to myocardial infarction. An attack of angina pectoris rarely lasts more than five minutes.
With mitral valve prolapse, the heart also tingles, although this is not a disease, but simply a physiological feature of the structure of this organ in some people. With prolapse, the valve flaps bend under blood pressure. With this diagnosis, patients experience dull rather than acute pain. They also complain of decreased performance, headaches. Mitral valve prolapse is usually observed in people with asthenic physique.
Among the "non-cardiac" reasons why it tingles in the heart, the first place in the frequency of distribution is occupied by vegetative-vascular dystonia. The polyetiological syndrome is felt after emotional overstrain or a nervous breakdown. Any disorder can cause chest pain. With a strong nervous shock, the blood supply to the brain is disrupted, so the patient also experiences a headache. Vegetative-vascular dystonia progresses rapidly if the patient smokes or takes alcohol, as well as if he drinks coffee and strong tea too often, as a result of which blood pressure rises.
With osteochondrosis in the elderly, the heart tingles, because the nerve endings and blood vessels in the spine are compressed and the blood circulates more slowly. In this case, the pain increases in the evening, since by this time the spine is slightly compressed, it becomes shorter. Patients complain that the pain behind the chest "gives" to the arm or shoulder. If the cervicothoracic spine is affected, then unpleasant sensations in the heart region are noted in 95% of patients.
To get rid of pain in the heart, you need to find the cause of their occurrence. To do this, you need to contact specialists and undergo an examination. Follow the instructions of the doctors and be healthy!