Symptoms

The symptoms of a heart attack vary from one person to another. You may feel tightness, heaviness or pain in your chest. This may spread to your arms, neck, jaw, back or stomach. For some people, the pain or tightness is severe, while other people just feel uncomfortable.

As well as having chest pain or discomfort you may become sweaty, feel light-headed or dizzy, or become short of breath. You may also feel nauseous or vomit.

Some people do not have any chest pain, especially in diabetics with neuropathy where pain nerve endings do not react normally to lack of oxygen