My husband is 52 yo, has been getting crushing chest pains that feel like someone is sitting on his chest. It comes on usually in the mornings and if he’s been exerting himself. By exertion I mean walking at his normal pace (he has to now walk very slowly and cannot walk much further than about 50 metres before he has to rest).

He’s had tests that show he has NOT had a heart attack.

He’s had blood tests that came back normal (no enzymes), a stress test but he was in too much pain to do the test for the 15 minutes they wanted. He completed about 7 minutes. They said the result showed no damage to his heart.

He’s also had an ECG but that was normal as well.

At first they thought he had angina but now they say it isn’t angina. They think it’s arterial spasm but when I googled that it said it was angina. I’m really confused.

Anyone know what this is and if so what treatment he should have?