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I shattered a wrist somersaulting over the roof of a car and landing with all my weight on it. I tried to eat a steering wheel and broke several of my teeth when I drove a Mini into an Armco barrier at around 100mph. Both extremely painful accidents, but neither comes close to the pain of angina.
I don't know how many of you ever get really bad cramp in your calf muscles? Angina is similar, but worse and it affects your chest, so it's also scary because you wonder if an episode is coming ahead of a heart attack. A nickname for angina is "the paralyzing disease", and it's very apt because if you so much as lift a finger, the pain intensifies further. Sometimes it only lasts maybe 5 minutes. Other times for hours. You feel like you have been beaten up for anything up to 12 hours afterwards.
Nitro-glycerine pills and spray work miracles, although you get a thumping headache from using them and if the attacks are too frequent, you just have to sit them out.
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