The emergency pill for chest pain is nitroglycerin, which is a prescription medication that is used to relieve an acute attack of angina, by widening your blood vessels and improving blood flow to your heart.
Nitroglycerine prevents and treats chest pain including angina pain by relaxing your blood vessels and you should take the nitroglycerine at the first sign of chest pain or chest tightness.
To take nitroglycerine for chest pain, place the nitroglycerine tablet under your tongue or between your cheek and gum and allow it to dissolve completely.
Don't chew, crush or swallow the nitroglycerine pill, and when taking nitroglycerine you may experience a slight tingling or burning sensation, which can indicate potency, but the absence of this sensation does not mean the nitroglycerine is ineffective.
For the spray, hold the container upright near your open mouth and spray once onto your tongue or under your tongue and avoid shaking the container or inhaling the spray.
Wait around 5 minutes as the nitroglycerine can take around 5 minutes to fully take effect, although the pain usually goes away within 1 to 3 minutes after taking nitroglycerine, but full effect can take 5 minutes.
If the pain does not improve you should call 911 immediately and don't wait.
If you experience any sudden, severe chest pain, especially if the pain radiates to your arm, jaw or back or is accompanied by shortness of breath, nausea or sweating you should call 911.
Angina pain starts behind the breastbone as pressure, squeezing or tightness, but the angina pain often also spreads or radiates to your arms, especially your left arm, neck, your jaw, shoulders, back and even your stomach.
The angina pain can feel like a dull ache, burning or heaviness feeling.
The angina pain can also be and is often accompanied by shortness of breath, fatigue, sweating or nausea and women with angina sometimes experience atypical symptoms like throat discomfort or jaw discomfort more prominently.
Common locations of angina pain are in the chest, in the center under the breastbone or sternum.
Pain in the arms with angina, which radiates down one arm or both arms and often the left arm.
Pain in the neck and jaw, and pain or discomfort in your throat, jaw or teeth.
Pain in your shoulders and back, as the pain spreads to the shoulders or upper back.
And pain in the abdomen or upper stomach area can also occur with angina.
The pain with angina feels like pressure, squeezing, tightness, heaviness or burning.
The angina pain can be mild or more severe, and sometimes even be described as a vague ache.
Other symptoms of angina are shortness of breath, fatigue or feeling faint, sweating, nausea or indigestion and dizziness or lightheadedness.
If you have any new or worsening or severe chest pain that does not go away with rest or medicine or you're experiencing trouble breathing or think you may be having a heart attack you should call 911 and get emergency medical help.
Angina is chest pain or discomfort which comes and goes and Angina can be a sign of a heart attack and so you should seek medical attention if you experience angina.
Angina is not always a heart attack, but you should seek medical attention to be checked out as some people have heart attacks without any symptoms and can have a silent heart attack.
So it's best to get checked out for the angina pain to know for sure what is causing it.
The main symptom of angina is sudden pain in your chest, neck, shoulders, jaw or arms and the pain often feels like tightness, squeezing or pressure, or even feel like a dull ache, and make you feel sick, breathless, dizzy or sweaty.