Is Aortic Dissection painful?

Is aortic dissection painful? So the, the, the chief symptom of aortic dissection is sudden onset chest pain. In, in medicine, there are lots of conditions that can cause chest pain, but most of them have a slightly more variable presentation. So with a heart attack, people sometimes complain of arm pain, abdominal pain, or even pain in the jaw. But with an aortic dissection, generally speaking patients report very similar symptoms and that is a sudden tearing sensation behind the sternum radiating to the back and it's very reproducible that people will describe that sudden onset tear and that propagation as I described. So those symptoms are certainly would be a reason to investigate someone for an aortic dissection. It can be very painful as well that it can be some of the worst pain that someone has ever experienced.