I feel something pressing on my chest

Sometimes you may feel like something is pressing on your chest, making it hard to breathe and having a stuffy stomach. This is especially true when you are angry or have eaten too much. You always feel uncomfortable but don’t know what is going on. Traditional Chinese medicine says that your spleen and stomach have been damaged, disrupting the normal functioning of the spleen and stomach’s qi. In life, we may experience chest tightness, difficulty breathing, and sometimes accompanied by bursts of pain. Why do we feel like there is something pressing on our chest?

1. Cardiogenic - chest tightness after fatigue, paroxysmal dyspnea at night, and pulmonary congestion and heart failure in patients with heart disease. Chest tightness can also be a manifestation of angina pectoris when myocardial ischemia occurs in coronary heart disease.

2. Pulmonary - seen in bronchial asthma, pleural effusion, spontaneous pneumothorax, pulmonary fibrosis, etc.

3. Neurofunctional - common in cardiovascular dysfunction. Patients feel chest tightness and shortness of breath, and subjectively feel that there is not enough air and breathing is not smooth. They often breathe like sighing and feel comfortable after exhaling a long breath. Sometimes they are also accompanied by palpitations, stabbing pain in the precordial area, as well as neurological symptoms such as fatigue, dizziness, and anxiety. Most of the patients suffer from this disease, and its characteristic is that the symptoms are numerous and changeable, which are similar to coronary heart disease and angina pectoris, but no organic lesions are found in electrocardiogram, cardiac B-ultrasound and other examinations. The mechanism of this disease is autonomic dysfunction and increased sympathetic nerve tension, which causes a series of functional symptoms and manifestations of the cardiovascular system. If you have symptoms of chest tightness, you can do chest X-ray, electrocardiogram, cardiac ultrasound and other examinations. If no abnormalities are found during the examination, there is no need to worry. Most of them are neurological functional symptoms and can be recovered after adjustment.

4. Treatment: 1. Relax your mind, eliminate worries, and maintain a good mood to enhance the vitality of brain cells and improve nerve function. 2 Physical exercise: Long-term exercise can enhance physical fitness, improve cardiovascular function, enhance the regulatory function of the autonomic nervous system, and facilitate the recovery of nerve function.