Depression and anxiety can also cause chest pain and mimic heart attack like chest pain symptoms.

Hyperventilation Syndrome: It is a very common cause of chest pain. Hyperventilation is due to over breathing and as a result of anxiety or fear and is also known as panic attacks. The patient unconsciously starts to breath rapidly and deeply when under stress and the breathing is often interspersed with deep sighs. It can quickly produce a variety of symptoms including lightheadedness, numbness, palpitations, dizziness, palpitations, blurred visions, flushing, and tingling of the hands and around the mouth. The patient is constantly over breathing throughout the day and also there is an increased use of the chest muscles leading to chest pain. Usually the patient is not aware that he/she is over breathing, but rather feels short of breath. Blowing into a bag and breathing in carbon dioxide provides relief to the patient.

How do you find out what is causing your chest pain? Doctor's diagnose the causes of chest pain by taking a comprehensive medical history by asking you a series of detailed questions about the chest pain, your general health, your family history, your health risks, and much more. Based on this they then order a series of tests to further investigate what the think might be the problem, known as their differential diagnosis.

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YourDiagnosis takes a very comprehensive medical history online using easy to understand questions which you can answer by just clicking on the relevant answers. Once completed it provides a comprehensive list of differential diagnoses as well as a detailed Personal Health Summary which you can take to your physician. You can also use it to store your medical history and symptoms history that can be used by your physician(s) at a later date. This would help you as you will not miss providing important information to the different doctors you visit.