Step 1
Go see your doctor, and stop looking up chest pain cures on the internet! Once you’re cleared by your physician, ask him or her about the following 10 suggestions:

Step 2
If you smoke, kicking the habit is a very important step on the road to stopping the pain of angina. Health professionals rate smoking as a ten, on a scale of one to ten for preventing angina. Smoking increases blood levels of carbon monoxide, which displaces oxygen, and since angina is an artery-clogged heart crying out for oxygen, smoking is clearly the worst thing you can do. Studies indicate angina patients who quit smoking have half the death rate of those who continue smoking.

Step 3
Think less is best when eating, this will mean less salt, less fat and less calories, just one overly fatty, overly salty meal can cause an angina attack because it raises your blood pressure suddenly.

Step 4
To control the level of fat in your diet, eat a diet containing less than 30 percent of calories from fat content. This will mean cutting back on foods containing saturated fat, like butter, that hardens at room temperature and cholesterol.

Step 5
Exercise angina away is a great way to relieve the stress your feeling, angina is not a reason not to exercise. Exercise helps you control your weight, lower your heart rate, and reduce your blood pressure, which will also help reduce your need for medication. But exercise needs to be combined with diet to be effective.

Step 6
Learning how to control your emotions, instead of them controlling you, will help you relax under difficult situations in which angina can occur. Working on resolving conflicts will do as much to improve your angina as if you took more drugs.

Step 7
If your angina is unstable, the kind that can occur without exertion, like when you’re resting or even sleeping, aspirin can be a lifesaver, some health professionals believe.

Step 8
Studies conducted in Canadian hospitals, found angina patients reduced their chances of heart attack by 51 percent by taking 4 buffered or coated aspirin tablets daily. But make sure consult your physician before starting any such regiment, this is because even though it’s an over the counter drug, aspirin can have side effects.

Step 9
If your angina attacks occur at night, tilting the head of your bed up 3 or 4 inches can reduce the number of attacks, according to health professionals. Sleeping in this position makes more blood pool in your legs, so not so much returns to the heart’s narrowed arteries and it may help reduce a need for nitro-glycerine.

Step 10
Simply sitting on the edge of your bed with your feet on the floor, if your angina attacks occur at night, can be equivalent to taking nitro-glycerine and if you don’t feel your symptoms begin to subside quickly, then reach for your medication.

Step 11
Many health professionals suggest getting a new outlook on life, to make some lifelong lifestyle changes, for angina patients to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Taking expensive drugs and not making the necessary changes to your lifestyle is a concern to many health professionals today. A good attitude, the desire to live a healthier life, and the other necessary changes will come a whole lot easier.