What are the symptoms of stable angina?
Angina feels like a discomfort or pain, usually in your chest. It usually starts when you do something active and goes away when you rest. Angina affects different people in different ways. Here’s a list of the most common ways people describe how it feels.[2][1] • It can feel like a weight on your chest or a squeezing, crushing, or gripping sensation. • Some people say it’s more of a discomfort than a pain, or more of a feeling of pressure or strangling.[3] • The feeling is usually in the middle of the chest, spreading out to both sides. • But you can also get it in your neck and jaw, or less often in your back. Or it may go down one or both of your arms and make them feel heavy. • You may feel as if you have indigestion. • The pain might also start somewhere else and only later spread to your chest. • You may be breathless and sweaty. Or you may feel sick or exhausted. Sometimes being breathless is the only symptom. • But some people have only a slight discomfort. And others don’t ge
