How To Detect A Heart Attack
The first hour of a heart attack is known as the “golden hour.” If you get help during that first hour, your chances of recovery are greatly improved. Yet many people hesitate to get help when they first experience symptoms. They’re afraid of the embarrassment of going to the emergency room and finding that nothing is wrong. So, it is important that you know the symptoms that may indicate that a heart attack is in progress.
Many of the symptoms of heart attack can be brought on by digestive disturbances or other less serious conditions. But only sophisticated medical tests can determine for sure if you’re having a heart attack. Heart attacks may vary from person to person, and from heart attack to heart attack. Women, for example, may experience “atypical’ symptoms such as pain between the shoulder blades rather than crushing chest pain. This may result in them delaying seeking treatment. That is a great mistake.
Heart attack is one instance where getting treatment promptly can mean the difference between life and death. If you are in doubt, err on the side of being more cautious and go to the emergency room and get yourself checked. We will try to describe some of the most common characteristics of heart attack here. Before that we will introduce the other pain called angina which is often precursor to a heart attack.
If you have never been diagnosed with heart disease but develop any of the following symptoms, consider the possibility that you have angina. Make an appointment with your doctor, and arrange for a cardiac screening as soon as possible.
Chest pain that comes with physical exertion and eases with rest.
Chest pain that is brought on by emotional stress.
New or unusual shortness of breath-if you suddenly find you’re winded after climbing a flight of stairs when you used to be able to take the same flight of stairs in stride, for example.
Indigestion, particularly if indigestion is unusual for you, if it does not respond to antacids, or if you do not associate its occurrence with eating.
kenneth d
September 7th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
The most common symptom of coronary heart disease is chest pain (angina) or discomfort, which can also occur in the shoulders, arms, neck, jaw or back,shortness of breath; nausea or vomiting; indigestion; loss of appetite; weakness or fatigue; cough; dizziness; and palpitations.
tania
September 7th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
a numbness in the left arm, heartburn symptoms, the sensation of an elephant sitting on the chest…
----Dale----west of the lake
September 7th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
Heavy sweating.will not be able to climb stairs,slight pain in the left chest.as if some pin is being pierced.
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Edwin Kimberly
September 7th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
How To Detect A Heart Attack
The first hour of a heart attack is known as the “golden hour.” If you get help during that first hour, your chances of recovery are greatly improved. Yet many people hesitate to get help when they first experience symptoms. They’re afraid of the embarrassment of going to the emergency room and finding that nothing is wrong. So, it is important that you know the symptoms that may indicate that a heart attack is in progress.
Many of the symptoms of heart attack can be brought on by digestive disturbances or other less serious conditions. But only sophisticated medical tests can determine for sure if you’re having a heart attack. Heart attacks may vary from person to person, and from heart attack to heart attack. Women, for example, may experience “atypical’ symptoms such as pain between the shoulder blades rather than crushing chest pain. This may result in them delaying seeking treatment. That is a great mistake.
Heart attack is one instance where getting treatment promptly can mean the difference between life and death. If you are in doubt, err on the side of being more cautious and go to the emergency room and get yourself checked. We will try to describe some of the most common characteristics of heart attack here. Before that we will introduce the other pain called angina which is often precursor to a heart attack.
If you have never been diagnosed with heart disease but develop any of the following symptoms, consider the possibility that you have angina. Make an appointment with your doctor, and arrange for a cardiac screening as soon as possible.
Chest pain that comes with physical exertion and eases with rest.
Chest pain that is brought on by emotional stress.
New or unusual shortness of breath-if you suddenly find you’re winded after climbing a flight of stairs when you used to be able to take the same flight of stairs in stride, for example.
Indigestion, particularly if indigestion is unusual for you, if it does not respond to antacids, or if you do not associate its occurrence with eating.
kenneth d
September 7th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
The most common symptom of coronary heart disease is chest pain (angina) or discomfort, which can also occur in the shoulders, arms, neck, jaw or back,shortness of breath; nausea or vomiting; indigestion; loss of appetite; weakness or fatigue; cough; dizziness; and palpitations.
tania
September 7th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
a numbness in the left arm, heartburn symptoms, the sensation of an elephant sitting on the chest…
----Dale----west of the lake
September 7th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
Heavy sweating.will not be able to climb stairs,slight pain in the left chest.as if some pin is being pierced.
Amit
September 7th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
Death
tekepiro
September 8th, 2009 at 12:22 am
when you keel over