What arm hurts if you're having a heart attack?

Answer 1

Normally people feel pain in their LEFT arm.

But heart attacks effect all different people differently.

Some may not feel pains in arms, some may feel pain in both arms, and I'm sure even tho it may only be a very few that only feel pain in the right arm.

Answer 2

The left arm.

The left one. Classically, the pain of a heart attack will radiate to the neck, jaw, or left shoulder and arm. However, in reality, the pain can radiate almost anywhere - including to the abdomen, back, neck, jaw, or either shoulder or arm.

Answer 3

Radiation of pain is thought to be caused by the non-specific sensory innervation of organs that do not have pain receptors being mis-interpreted by the brain as being located in a different location. The best theory I have heard for this is that organs, such as the heart, have nerves that enter the spinal cord at the same level as sensory nerves of the neck, jaw, shoulder and arms. When there is cardiac "pain," the heart does not have pain receptors, so a nonspecific irritant signal is carried back from the heart and diaphragm (which frequently also gets irritated in a heart attack), and because the brain does not know what to do with this signal, it interprets it as pain in one of the areas closely associated with the spinal level the signal enters.

Answer 4

usually left arm

Answer 5

The left arm .

Answer 6

Left