Causes of chest tightness and pain in men

In daily life, we often hear people say that they have back pain and chest tightness and pain, which makes them feel very uncomfortable. The patients think that there must be something wrong with the body. In particular, men are more likely to suffer from chest tightness and pain due to the stress of life. Let's discuss the reasons for men's chest tightness and pain.

There are many symptoms of chest tightness and pain. For example, depending on the location of the pain, there are the following types of symptoms: herpes zoster, which often presents as a large number of small blisters spread along the nerves, not crossing the center line, and has significant pain; influenza myalgia may cause severe pain in the chest and waist muscles, which may radiate to the shoulders and neck; non-suppurative costochondritis often affects the 1st and 2nd rib cartilages, and the injured area is protruding , the pain is intense, but the skin is usually not swollen; the pain of angina and subacute myocardial infarction is often located behind the sternum or in the precordial area; the pain of esophageal diseases, diaphragmatic hernia, and diaphragmatic tumors is also located behind the sternum; spontaneous pneumothorax, acute pleurisy, pulmonary embolism, etc. often present with severe chest pain in the affected limb; and intercostal neuralgia is often paroxysmal burning or stabbing pain; muscle pain is often sore, and bone pain is sore and tingling.

The department you go to for chest tightness and chest pain depends on the patient's clinical symptoms. If there is squeezing pain in the precordial area or behind the sternum, which occurs when you are tired, anxious, or cold, and can be relieved by resting or taking nitroglycerin, it is mostly a manifestation of ischemic heart disease and you need to see a cardiologist. Therefore, you usually need to see a respiratory doctor or a cardiologist immediately, because you cannot rule out symptoms caused by angina or coronary heart disease.

But you still need to go to the cardiovascular department. Generally, if it is caused by the heart level or pericarditis or pericardial effusion, you can do electrocardiogram, heart B-ultrasound examination, and blood heart function test to basically confirm the diagnosis. In addition to eliminating the cause of the heart level, you need to consider the lung symptoms, and you need to check the lung CT and lung function test. It is also necessary to carry out lung CT, X-ray examination, electrocardiogram examination, or echocardiogram examination according to the condition for diagnosis.