heartdiseasesecretreport.comHeart Attack Symtoms

EBook Helping Men To Meet Women On The Internet. Capture The Heart Of Ms. Right In Cyberspace.

How To Meet Women Online.

I am 45 and a woman. I have been having pain in my shoulders and mid back, trouble breathing, and dizziness. I have been using my inhaler every 2 hours and have been taking 800mgs of motrin for the pain and a gas X and previcid for my stomach. The breathing problems seems better but I am still in some pain. My husband, a nurse, says I am not presenting the symptoms of a heart attack and thinks it is more upper respiratory related. I have also had sore shoulders for a while with limited movement that my doctor thinks is my rotator cuff. Do you think I should ride it out on pain meds and albutoral or go to the emergency room? I’m not in distress as much as I was. Any suggestions? Thanks!

 Here is the story of one woman’s experience with a heart attack.

“I had a completely unexpected heart attack at about 10:30 pm with NO prior exertion; NO prior emotional trauma that one would suspect might’ve brought it on. I was sitting all snugly and warm on a cold evening, reading an interesting story my friend had sent me.  A moment later, I felt that awful sensation of indigestion, when you’ve been in a hurry and grabbed a bite of sandwich and washed it down with a dash of water, and that hurried bite seems to feel as if you’ve swallowed a golf ball going down the esophagus in slow motion, and it is most uncomfortable. You realize you shouldn’t have gulped it down so fast and needed to chew it more thoroughly, and this time drinks a glass of water to hasten its progress down to the stomach.  This was my initial sensation-the only trouble was that I hadn’t taken a bite of anything since about 5:00 p.m.
After that had seemed to subside, the next sensation was like little squeezing motions that seemed to be racing up my SPINE (hindsight, it was probably my aorta spasming), gaining speed as they continued  racing up and under my sternum (breast bone, where one presses rhythmically when administering CPR). This fascinating process continued on into my throat and branched out into both jaws.
AAH!! NOW I stopped puzzling about what was happening. We all have read and/or heard about pain in the jaws being one of the signals of an MI happening, haven’t we? I said aloud to myself, “Dear God, I think I’m having a heart attack!”
 I lowered the foot rest, started to take a step and fell on the floor instead I thought to myself “If this is a heart attack, I shouldn’t be walking into the next room where the phone is or anywhere else but, on the other hand, if I don’t, nobody will know that I need help, and if I wait any longer I may not be able to get up in another moment”.
 I pulled myself up with the arms of the chair, walked slowly into the  next room and dialed the paramedics … I told the lady who answered  that I thought I was having a heart attack due to the pressure  building under the sternum and radiating into my jaws. I didn’t feel hysterical or afraid, just stated the facts. She said she was sending  the paramedics over immediately, asked if the front door was near to  me, and if so, to unbolt the door and then lie down on the floor where  they could see me when they came in.
 I then laid down on the floor as instructed and lost consciousness,  as I don’t remember the medics coming in, their examination, lifting  me onto a gurney or getting me in to their ambulance, or hearing the  call they made on the way, but I did briefly awaken  when we arrived and saw that the cardiologist was already there in his  surgical blues and cap, helping the medics pull my stretcher out of  the ambulance. He was bending over me asking questions (probably something like “Have you taken any medications?”) but I couldn’t make my mind interpret what he was saying, or form an answer, and nodded off again, not waking up until the cardiologist and his partner had already threaded the teeny angiogram balloon up my femoral artery into the aorta and into my heart where they installed 2 side by side stints to hold open my right coronary artery.
I know it sounds as if all my thinking and actions at home must have taken at least 20-30 minutes before calling the paramedics, but actually it took perhaps 4-5 minutes before the call, and they are only minutes away from my home, and my cardiologist was already to go to the OR in his scrubs and get going on restarting my heart (which had stopped somewhere between my arrival and the procedure) and installing the stints”.
Why have I written all of this to you with so much detail? The more we know the better chance we could survive.

People who suffer illnesses or tragedies unfortunately set themselves up, saying, “It can’t happen to me”. It can happen to any of us, which is why we should take the steps in our youth to prevent illnesses and tragedies.

Exercise is the leading element we have offered to us in life that helps to reduce any disease, emotional reactions and so on. When you sit around feeling anxious, depressed, you are working toward worse health conditions. Reverse your actions and take the steps live longer by exercising each day.

Visit http://curvid.bezoogle.com/pp/weight-loss/ or http://vida-healthy-aging.blogspot.com/ for more information.

Many women suffer from heart disease each year. In fact, heart disease is the #1 killer of American women, where more than one in five women have some form of cardiovascular disease. The more alarming fact is that 43% of deaths in American women, or nearly 500,000, are caused by cardiovascular disease each year. Coronary heart disease is the most common form of heart disease. It is a disorder of the blood vessels of the heart that can lead to a heart attack.

A heart attack happens when an artery becomes blocked, preventing oxygen and nutrients from getting to the heart. When the heart muscles no longer receive oxygen or nutrients to function properly, it begins to die. When a large amount of the heart muscle is injured, it will weaken the heart’s function, ultimately leading to heart failure or death.

The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease has revealed these critical facts on the prevalence of heart disease among women:

8,000,000 American women are currently living with heart disease – 10% of women ages 45 – 64 and 25% age 65 and over.
435,000 American women have heart attacks each year; 83,000 are under age 65 and 9,000 are under age 45. Their average age is 70.4.
267,000 women die each year from heart attacks, which kill six times as many women as breast cancer.
31, 837 women die each year of congestive heart failure, or 62.6% of all heart failure deaths.

Although such statistics provide strong evidence that women are at high risk of getting heart disease; however, less than one in ten women think that heart disease is their greatest heart threat (The American Society of Echocardiography). If such ignorance continues, the number of women who suffer and die from this disease will soar dramatically each year.

Some women even believe that this disease can be cured by surgery. This is not true at all. Heart disease is a lifelong condition. When a woman is diagnosed of having heart disease, she will have to cope with this disease and make efforts to reduce the chances of getting a heart attack through diet and lifestyle.

According to The American Society of Echocardiography, the warning signs of heart attack that every woman should know are:

Uncomfortable pressure, fullness, squeezing or burning pain in the center of

the chest that lasts more than a few minutes, or goes away and comes back.
Pain that spreads to the shoulders, neck or arms.
Chest discomfort with lightheadedness, fainting, sweating, nausea or

shortness of breath.
Unusual chest pain, stomach or abdominal pain.
Nausea or dizziness (without chest pain).
Shortness of breath and difficulty breathing (without chest pain).
Unexplained anxiety, weakness or extreme fatigue.
Palpitations, cold sweat or paleness.

It was reported that not all these symptoms occur in every attack. Sometimes they disappear and return again. If some of these symptoms appear, get help immediately. Do not wait another moment thinking whether medical treatment is needed. As compared to men, women typically wait longer to seek medical attention. A few possibilities may explain why women delay in getting the necessary heart screening and treatment.

The fear of becoming a heart disease patient is one major factor why women delay getting heart diagnosis. They are afraid to go through heart screening and treatment which are perceived as painful and uncomfortable. Women are also afraid of the likelihood of having to undergo heart surgery where the survival chance is unknown.

The perception of others seeing them as “overreacting” is another major cause of women delaying their decision to seek treatment. They are also afraid to face with embarrassment should the diagnosis turn out to be a “false alarm”. Thus, they will rather not involve their spouse, family member or friend in the process of getting a heart diagnosis.

If you are experiencing the symptoms of heart attack, delay no more. You must go for a medical check up immediately. Think for a moment about the consequences. If you delay, you may develop a heart attack. You may never recover from the heart attack and lose your life. You may never see your loved ones again.

The decision to go for a heart diagnosis is your responsibility. No one else knows the condition of your heart better than yourself. Even if the results of the diagnosis show that you are not having heart disease, it’s worth the effort to find out from your doctor. Don’t have the “wait and see” mentality. If you are heart disease patient and are not under medical supervision, the longer you wait, the higher chance you will get a heart attack. Make an appointment to see your doctor for a heart diagnosis today. Early medical intervention will save your life.

I get tingling in my fingers sometimes when I dry my hands on a towel, or when I take my walks.

Groundbreaking Book On The Super Traits Of Women Who Are Attracted To And Can Tolerate Psychopathic Men. Women Can Now Understand Their Risk Factors, Why Psychopaths Target Them, And How To Heal From The Deviant Relationship And Its Aftermath Of Symptoms.

Women Who Love Psychopaths.

Symptoms of Heart Attack in Women

Heart disease remains the #1 killer of women in the United States. Unfortunately, heart disease often goes unrecognized and untreated until the woman has a disabling or fatal heart attack. Women often have different symptoms than men do, and not all physicians know what to look for. Not all women know what to look for.

Prodromal Symptoms

Most women who have heart attacks experience ‘prodromal’ symptoms for a month or more before the incident. Prodromal symptoms predict the onset of a disease. If we recognize prodromal symptoms, sometimes we can prevent the heart attack that is about to happen.

Men are not as likely to have prodromal symptoms as women; 95% of women in a recent National Institutes of Health study had one or more of the following symptoms for a month or more before their heart attacks:

Severe fatigue

Severe sleep disturbances

Shortness of breath

Indigestion

Anxiety

Chest Discomfort

Only a third to a half of all women have chest discomfort when they have a heart attack. Those who do experience discomfort don’t usually describe it as pain, either. Women are more likely to say they have aching, pressure or tightness in their chests than they are to use the word, ‘pain.’

Heart Attack Symptoms

Women who are having a heart attack are more likely to experience one or more of the following symptoms than they are to have chest discomfort:

Sudden, severe shortness of breath

Sudden weakness

Sudden, severe fatigue

Breaking out in a cold sweat

Sudden dizziness.

Women do have different heart attack symptoms than men do, but heart disease is just as disabling and just as fatal to women as it is to men. Recognizing the symptoms women are most likely to experience with a heart attack could save your life.

About the Author: Penny Watkins is a freelance writer who worked as a critical care nurse for over twenty years, specializing in cardiovascular nursing. This article was written for PillsPills.Net Pharmacy

Something we should ALL want to know!
PLEASE READ ALL THE WAY THROUGH!
She said she didn’t feel well and had a back-ache and was going to lay
down on the bed with the heating pad. Awhile later her husband went to
check on her and she was not breathing. They were not able to revive her.
I was aware that female heart attacks are different, but this is the
best description I’ve ever read…Women and heart attacks (Myocardial
infarction)
Did you know that women rarely have the same dramatic symptoms that
men have when experiencing heart attack…you know, the sudden stabbing
pain in the chest, the cold sweat, grabbing the chest & dropping to the floor
that we see in the movies. Here is the story of one woman’s experience with
a heart attack.
I had a completely unexpected heart attack at about 10:30 PM with NO
prior exertion, NO prior emotional trauma that one would suspect might’ve
brought it on. I was sitting all snugly &warm on a cold evening, with my
purring cat in my lap, reading an interesting story my friend had sent me,
and actually thinking, “A-A-h, this is the life, all cozy and warm in my soft,
cushy Lazy Boy with my feet propped up.” A moment later, I felt that awful
sensation of indigestion, when you’ve been in a hurry and grabbed a bite of
sandwich and washed it down with a dash of water, and that hurried bite
seems to feel like you’ve swallowed a golf ball going down the esophagus in
slow motion and it is most uncomfortable. You realize you shouldn’t have
gulped it down so fast and needed to chew it more thoroughly and this time
drink a glass of water to hasten its progress down to the stomach.
This was my initial sensation—the only trouble was that I hadn’t taken a bite
of anything since about 5:00 p.m. “After that had seemed to subside, the next
sensation was like little squeezing motions that seemed to be racing up my
SPINE (hind-sight, it was probably my aorta spasming), gaining speed as they
continued racing up and under my sternum (breast bone, where one presses
rhythmically when administering CPR). This fascinating process continued on
into my throat and branched out into both jaws. “AHA!! NOW I stopped
puzzling about what was happening–we all have read and/or heard about
pain in the jaws being one of the signals of an MI happening, haven’t we?
I said aloud to myself and the cat, “Dear God, I think I’m having a heart
attack!” I lowered the footrest, dumping the cat fr om my lap, started to take
a step and fell on the floor instead. I thought to myself “If this is a heart
attack, I shouldn’t be walking into the next room where the phone is or
anywhere else……,but, on the other hand, if I don’t, nobody will know that
I need help, and if I wait any longer I may not be able to get up in moment”
I pulled myself up with the arms of the chair, walked slowly into the next
room, and dialed the Paramedics… I told her I thought I was having a heart
attack due to the pressure building under the sternum and radiating into my
jaws. I didn’t feel hysterical or afraid, just stating the facts. She said she was
sending the Paramedics over immediately, asked if the front door was near
me, and if so, to unbolt the door and then lie down on the floor where they
could see me when they came in. “I then laid down on the floor as instructed
and lost consciousness, as I don’t remember the medics coming in, their
examination, lifting me onto a gurney or getting me into their ambulance, or
hearing the call they made to St. Jude ER on the way, but I did briefly awaken
when we arrived and saw that the Cardiologist was already there in his
surgical blues and cap, helping the medics pull my stretcher out of the
ambulance. He was bending over me asking questions (probably something
like “Have you taken any medications?”) but I couldn’t make my mind interpret
what he was saying, or form an answer, and nodded off again, not waking up
until the Cardiologist and partner had already threaded the teeny angiogram
balloon up my femoral artery into the aorta and into my heart where they
installed 2 side by side stints to hold open my right coronary artery.
“I know it sounds like all my thinking and actions at home must have taken
at least 20-30 minutes before calling the Paramedics, but actually it took
perhaps 4-5 minutes before the call, and both the fire station and St. Jude
are only minutes away from my home, and my Cardiologist was already to go
to the OR in his scrubs and get going on restarting my heart (which had
stopped somewhere between my arrival and the procedure) and installing the
stints.
“Why have I written all of this to you with so much detail? I want all of you
who are so important in my life to know what I learned first hand.”
1.. Be aware that something very different is happening in your body not the
usual men’s symptoms, but inexplicable things happening (until my
sternum and jaws got into the act). It is said that many more women than
men die of their first (and last) MI because they didn’t know they were
having one, and commonly mistake it as indigestion, take some Maalox or
other anti-heartburn preparation, and go to bed, hoping they’ll feel better
in the morning when they wake up….which doesn’t happen. My female
friends, your symptoms might not be exactly like mine, so I advise you to
call the Paramedics if ANYTHING is unpleasantly happening that you’ve
not felt before. It is better to have a “false alarm” visitation than to risk
your life guessing what it might be!*
2.. Note that I said “Call the Paramedics”. Ladies, TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE!
Do NOT try to drive yourself to the ER–you’re a hazard to others on the
road, and so is your panicked husband who will be speeding and looking
anxiously at what’s happening with you instead of the road. Do NOT call
your doctor–he doesn’t now where you live and if it’s at night you won’t
reach him anyway, and if it’s daytime, his assistant (or answering service)
will tell you to call the Paramedics. He doesn’t carry the equipment in his
car that you need to be saved! The Paramedics do, principally OXYGEN
that you need ASAP. Your Dr. will be notified later.
3.. Don’t assume it couldn’t be a heart attack because you have a normal
cholesterol count. Research has discovered that a cholesterol elevated
reading is rarely the cause of an MI (unless it’s unbelievably high, and/or
accompanied by high blood pressure.) MI’s are usually caused by long-
term stress and inflammation in the body, which dumps all sorts of deadly
hormones into your system to sludge things up in there. Pain in the jaw
can wake you from a sound sleep. Let’s be careful and be aware. The more
we know, the better chance we could survive.
A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this e-mail sends it to 10 people,
you can be sure that we’ll save at least one life. Please be a true friend and
send this article to all your friends you care about!
Thank You

Description
Cardiovascular disease kills more American women than all forms of cancer combined, yet the perception remains that cardiovascular disease is a greater threat to men’s health. This program focuses on the risks women face with cardiovascular disease, ways of reducing these risks, as well as new wide-ranging treatments for heart disease. Dr. Robert Robbins, MD, and Dr. Marcia Stefanick, Ph.D, deliver cutting-edge information on the state of research, the newest studies, a… More >>

Understanding Cardiovascular Disease in Women