The anxiety attacks and the heart attacks are often confused or mixed up with each other. There are several reasons behind this.
The first reason why an anxiety attack is mixed up with a heart attack is that the symptoms of both the attacks are very similar. In both the attacks the patient feels rapid, racy or irregular heart beats. The sweating is common in the heat attack but sometimes a person with thee panic attack also sweats badly because of the fear.
That is why such attacks are often mixed up. Every year so many patients are rushed to the hospital with the complaint of a heart attack but the tests prove that only 60% are the patients of actual heart attacks. The others are all those who have mixed up the symptoms of two attacks.
One must keep in mind that the symptoms are similar but the heart will come back to the normal sate once the panic attack is gone, but it will not happen in case of a heart attack. In fact this is a big difference between an anxiety attack and a heart attack.You can search on the internet to look for the exact symptoms of an anxiety attack.
I am by no way advocating that the anxiety attacks should not be reported at the hospital. That is because you never know if a person having anxiety problems, actually undergoes a heart attack and the relatives or the friends do not take him or her to the hospital, thinking it is just an anxiety or panic attack. So the doctor and the medical tests remain the best judge.
Another reason why the anxiety attacks are mixed up with the heart attacks is that the patients of the anxiety attack get too fearful due to the racing heart. If the patient has experienced the irregular or rapid heart beat for the first time then it would be impossible to convince him that it is not a heart attack, even if you are a doctor. Do not bother doing that.
Take him/her straight to the hospital and the tests will speak for themselves. It might also calm the patient with the attack.You can search on the internet for recommended solution to control anxiety attacks. A difference between the panic attacks and the heart attacks is that the heart attack is marked by severe upper body pains.
The pain is dominant in the left arm and the chest but sometimes the patients might also feel pain in neck, stomach and jaws.
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