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Why do people who have heart attacks sometimes get serious pain in their left arm?

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Green Poo asked:


why the left arm, why the pain there? I don’t understand…some people having a heart attack grab their left arm in pain, what causes the pain from a heart attack to go there of all places?

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    No Responses to “Why do people who have heart attacks sometimes get serious pain in their left arm?”

    1. Yelli on August 25th, 2010 6:05 pm

      the main vein from your heart runs down your left arm.

    2. cardiophile on August 26th, 2010 6:32 pm

      It is known as referred pain. The nerves supplying the heart and left arm are from the same spinal segment. It has an embryological basis from the development of the baby in the mother’s womb.

    3. Agnes Pingkan L on August 29th, 2010 5:50 am

      The primary symptom of heart attack is a consistent deep, often severe, pain in the chest that can spread to the left arm