6 Pains You Should Never Ignore

1. Chest squeeze

Pain in the chest can be especially alarming because most people associate it with heart attack. What kind of pain is a tip-off to heart attack? It can vary, but many men who are hit with a heart attack describe a heaviness, tightness, or squeezing of the chest. Women also can experience such symptoms or others, including jaw pain and pain in the upper back, shoulders, and neck.

Fix: If your heart attack symptoms worsen or get no better after five minutes, please get medical attention at once, even if it is/ isn't a heart attack.

2. Tummy trouble

Severe abdominal pain can be a symptom of serious conditions affecting your appendix, pancreas, or gallbladder, or it might mean that you have a stomach ulcer or intestinal blockage. Don’t try and tough out such pain, especially if it is accompanied by an inability to keep food down over several days, bloody stools, vomiting blood, difficulty breathing, or pain when you touch your abdomen.

Fix: You might be suffering from internal inflammation, bleeding, or infection so you should see a physician right away. If appendicitis or hernia is diagnosed, you’ll need surgery. Other conditions might be treated with drugs like antibiotics, depending on what’s wrong.

3. Horrible headache

If you have a cold, a severe headache could be from a sinus infection. However, if you’re describing your pain as the worst headache of your life, you very likely could have a brain aneurysm. This is a bulge in a brain artery wall that has weakened and could possibly burst and cause a serious or even fatal stroke.

Fix: Doctors will use imaging testing to spot the aneurysm and operate to repair it. Time is critical because the real danger occurs after rupture, which causes bleeding and possible stroke.

4. Tingling sensation

About half the people with diabetes have some form of nerve damage known as diabetic neuropathy. Chronically high blood sugar causes nerve damage which results in pain, numbness, or tingling in the extremities. For people who don’t know they have diabetes, this can be one of the first signs.

Fix: If you suspect diabetes, get tested. If you have diabetes, keep your blood glucose levels in check.

5. Warm calf pain

A calf that is warm, painful to the touch, and perhaps swollen along a vein can be a sign of a blood clot known as deep-vein thrombosis. While rubbing your leg might be the first thing you want to do, don’t. This can send a clot to your lung, which can be fatal.

Fix: Get medical attention immediately. Doctors will perform imaging testing to confirm the clot and prescribe drugs that will dissolve it.

6. Side or pelvic pain

Pain in the side, abdomen, or pelvic area can be a sign of a urinary tract infection. This occurs when bacteria from outside the body are introduced to the tract, causing it to become inflamed and irritated. Also, you may experience pressure in your pelvis as well as pain and urgency with urination. Men may experience penis pain.

Fix: Women are more at risk because their shorter urethra (the tube that carries urine from the bladder) is closer to the anus, where bacteria hang out. Enlarged prostate and bladder prolapse, common conditions among older adults, put them at greater risk of UTIs as well. Urinalysis and urine culture confirm the diagnosis and antibiotics are usually prescribed. If left untreated, a UTI can lead to a more serious infection in the kidneys.

For more info, kindly read-
Read more:http://www.newsmaxhealth.com/headline_health/Serious_Pains/2011/06/03/391893_6.html