Heart attack symptoms are ignored by women

The thought of having a heart attack was the farthest thing from her mind when Cindy her doctor. She thought she was with an episode of acid reflux and delayed calling her doctor. When she finally her doctor, he asked her to go to his Office at his request, and had an EKG (electrocardiogram). He faxed the EKG to a cardiologist who told him to send his patient to the hospital. A week later had Cindy a triple bi-pass surgery.

The story is real, not the names. I write an article for a local newspaper about the need for women to recognize that their symptoms of a heart attack are probably very different from the symptoms of a man. The goal is to get the word out that women, especially women over 50, should have regular checkups with physicians other than their gynaecologists.

Colleagues, this story is just as important for you, because I am that you have a mother, a wife, a sister, a significant other who am betting if Cindy thinks she should also know except that women have heart attacks.

What I have learned is that the situation for Cindy common. Women who have atypical symptoms, such as arm or back pain or nausea, might not realize that they have a heart attack. Then, when they need assistance try, doctors sometimes misdiagnose them or treat them with the same urgency as they do with men complaining of possible heart attacks.

Dr. Pamela Marcovitz, Director of the Ministrelli women's Heart Center in Royal Oak, Michigan, explains that women still do not think of himself at the risk of heart attack. They also tend to excuse their symptoms, and slow down emergency go because they don't want to make a mistake or someone the trouble. Some women just don't think their pain signaled something and did not warrant immediate medical attention.

Doctors advise women to learn the various symptoms of heart attacks and 911 when one of these characters to appear. The longer a woman waits before your treatment to open the blocked blood vessels to the heart, the more damage is done to the heart muscle. If there are a lot of heart muscle that is damaged the woman is a greater risk of heart failure.

In addition to the acute chest pain and numbness left arm that are common symptoms in men, for women are other symptoms: shortness of breath, weakness, and unusual fatigue. Other symptoms for women are nausea, dizziness, chest, upper back pain and discomfort that feels like indigestion.

Keep in mind that a woman heart attack quite different from the symptoms of a man watching can.

If you feel discomfort and drive the feeling you have attention not to the hospital. 911 call so paramedics evaluation can begin as soon as they reach you. Let all the medications to prevent drug interactions know medical emergency services. While waiting for the ambulance, chewing a whole aspirin, it must be chewed get into the blood stream, then lie to try to stay calm.