Too young for heart disease/angina?

[amandamarie73]

Hi,

Im 35, mother of a 2 year old and 5 month old.  I'm 5'5, weigh 128-30, walk/exercise 5-7 days a week and am I think relatively healthy.  My husband and I have been going to counseling on and off a couple years.  Our relationship is pretty bad right now.  He has an ager management problem.  I started noticing my heart, or what I think is my heart hurting when he's blown up when we've been discussing a problem more than once in the last few weeks.  I'm pretty sure its the stress from the moment of the situation, on top of the everyday stress I have from living with him.  I'm close to being done with this relationship, especially now that the stress is causing noticable harm.  Should I be checked out?  The chest pain only happens during arguments, or when hes yelling.  It never happens when Im exercising.  

[grendslori]

It sounds like stress is probably causing your pain. It's probably a good idea for you to find a way to eliminate it in your life, not just for you, but for your little ones.

[kenkeith]

The fact you do not have an episode during exercise does not rule out that mental stress is causing or could cause a heart problem. Stress can constrict vessels, etc. and as a consequence reduce oxygenated blood to the heart.  If you have other symptoms that could be heart related, you may want to get checkup.  But if you get away from the high stress environment thtat may be all that is necessary.

Exercise tolerance would indicate there is no ischemia (obstruction of vessels and reduced flow of blood to the heart).