There are many chest pain causes (including a heart attack) that can lead to similar types of discomfort, and it can be really tricky to know what you're actually dealing with.

However, non-heart-related chest pain can come from your muscles, bones, the tube that connects your mouth to your stomach (esophagus), or other organs not connected to your heart.

The chest pain linked to a heart attack often feels like a tight, crushing pressure, sometimes radiating to the arms, back, neck, jaw, or stomach, as per the Morbidity and Mortality weekly report.

A heart attack survivor shared his story via Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland (CHSS). In a case study, 62-year-old lorry driver John explained how his only symptom lasted a “few minutes”.

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You can get a heart attack after exercising but not a panic attack. If one is having chest pain or other symptoms and doesn’t have a history of panic attacks then it can indicate a heart attack.

Heart attack pain is typically a pressure, squeezing, or feeling of heaviness in the chest. It is usually likened to the sensation of "an elephant sitting on the chest." ...

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Some men also have early warning signals, with chest pain being the most common. But women and men usually experience the same heart attack symptoms, says the British Heart Foundation (BHF).