most helpful answer i'm glad to hear all is good and i hope i can help set your mind at ease. a pinched nerve in the neck can send pain radiating down the shoulder and arm -- and even into the chest area which could indeed feel like the symptoms of a heart attack. presumably you received an x-ray or mri scan of your neck. this is usually how a pinched nerve in the neck is diagnosed. pinched nerves in the neck are often caused by compression of a disk in the spinal column of the neck. this compression puts pressure on the nerve which in turn causes the pain. you're right that there's no relationship between a pinched nerve in the neck and a heart problem. it's just that the pinched nerve caused you to have pain that was similar to what a person feels when they have a heart attack. hope this helps! i had a similar case but mine was from the t-11. the nerve bundle that comes from the t-11 wraps around the chest and will give pain signs of a heart attack. i had to gone to many dr's and finally a student sitting in (they had just done the study of the t-11 told the dr what he thought it was). i ended up having a bone spur after they cut it out i was fine. i would think this is where the problem was and not the neck. the t-11 is in the upper mid back just below the shoulder blades. on a side note they found an aortic aneurysm that needed to be fixed said i had about 2 years or less.
it is possible for a pinched nerve in the shoulder to have symptoms similar to a heart attack? . i went to the er with what i thought was a heart attack (chest pain and numbness in the left arm). after two days of tests i was told by a cardiologist and a neuologist that i had a pinched nerve in my neck. i cannot find any relationship for the two. is this diagnosis correct? i have since switched cardiologist. i go every six months for a check up and annually for a nuclear stress test. so far all is good.