Most of our compatriots employed at work prefer to visit a doctor very rarely. We are used to not paying attention to a mild cold, toothache, joint pain, or chest spasms. We often prefer self-medication to a doctor’s visit, and we prescribe the medicine ourselves.
In vain. Pain is the first signal that the work of the body is disrupted, this is its reaction to the problem.
It is impossible to determine the disease by the nature and localization of unpleasant sensations: many diseases have the same symptoms.
For example, aching pain in the chest can occur with tuberculosis, pleurisy, heart attack, lung tumor. With a tumor of the lung, its character is unstable as well as localization. Stitching, sharp, pressing or aching unpleasant paresthesias can be felt behind the sternum on the right or left, give it to the stomach or shoulder. Only a specialist can determine what exactly is the cause. To make a diagnosis, he will have to examine the patient.
The pain on the right also does not allow to recognize a disease that threatens a person. It can be with pancreatic cancer or pancreatitis, diseases of the spine or pulmonary embolism. A heart attack, a stomach ulcer, even regular constipation often accompanies chest pain on the right.
On the other hand, the symptoms of all diseases are strictly individual in specific people. Sometimes they can be unnoticed for a long time, because they are very weakly expressed. And sometimes the disease manifests itself atypically. So, for example, one of the signs of a heart attack is a burning pain in the chest. However, a certain contingent during a heart attack does not experience pain and pressure behind the sternum, but acute colic, throat cramps, etc. Such an atypical course of the disease only complicates the diagnosis and treatment.
Pain in the chest on the right requires an urgent consultation with a doctor, because it can signal the occurrence of a severe deviation - spontaneous pneumothorax: air accumulation in the middle of the pleural cavity. Usually, pneumothorax occurs against the background of tuberculosis, emphysema, or other diseases accompanied by destruction (destruction) of the lung tissue. However, the condition may occur in a healthy person. With pneumothorax, there is a sharp pain in the chest on the right, severe shortness of breath, sweating, severe excitement.
Cramps, colic on the right side of the sternum can occur with croupous pneumonia. Usually this is an acute or cutting pain, which intensifies with inspiration or coughing. To reduce discomfort, many try to restrain coughing, breathing less often, taking shallow breaths. Such techniques only aggravate the condition, and if an untimely appeal to a specialist occurs, the patient may die.
What should be done when you feel pain in the chest on the right, behind the sternum, anywhere else?
First of all, you cannot take an unknown medicine. Very often, colleagues offer pills that help them. However, this does not mean that they will be harmless to another person.
With severe pain, you should try to calm down, relax, sit down, establish even breathing.
If sensations intensify, an ambulance should be called. With tolerable sensations, you can go to the clinic yourself.
Sometimes painful sensations are provoked not by a specific, but by a psychosomatic disease. This means that chest pain on the right or anywhere else can be caused by a breakdown or breakdown. If so, the attending physician may schedule a consultation with a neurologist or psychotherapist.
Serious diseases can be avoided only if one carefully assesses the state of the body, listens to its prompts, and takes timely measures to improve it.