I saw a program on this a while back and one of the other things that struck me was that often, women having a heart attack have increasing back pain.
These symptoms in women -- all those that Susan listed -- are particularly dangerous because as a group, we tend to ignore the needs of our own health while we're taking care of others. Fatigue? We feel it all the time. Anxiety? Indigestion? Insomnia? Check, check, check. We are very familiar with a lot of these symptoms just as normal byproducts of our busy, time-crunched lives.
So one important thing to remember is your intuition. If you don't feel right -- and you know what I mean, you just have the sense that things aren't right -- listen to yourself and make an appointment to get things checked out. Just the fact that we can feel symptoms for up to a month beforehand is frightening -- we go that long without doing anything about it!!
Trust yourself to know when you need to get checked out, and then do it. The worst that could happen is that you'll find out you're just fine!!! And that's not a waste by any means.
And if you think you might be having a heart attack, call 911 and then chew a regular aspirin right away. Chewing it gets it into your bloodstream twice as fast, where it can work on the platelets that are trying to clot.
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I saw a program on this a while back and one of the other things that struck me was that often, women having a heart attack have increasing back pain.
These symptoms in women -- all those that Susan listed -- are particularly dangerous because as a group, we tend to ignore the needs of our own health while we're taking care of others. Fatigue? We feel it all the time. Anxiety? Indigestion? Insomnia? Check, check, check. We are very familiar with a lot of these symptoms just as normal byproducts of our busy, time-crunched lives.
So one important thing to remember is your intuition. If you don't feel right -- and you know what I mean, you just have the sense that things aren't right -- listen to yourself and make an appointment to get things checked out. Just the fact that we can feel symptoms for up to a month beforehand is frightening -- we go that long without doing anything about it!!
Trust yourself to know when you need to get checked out, and then do it. The worst that could happen is that you'll find out you're just fine!!! And that's not a waste by any means.
And if you think you might be having a heart attack, call 911 and then chew a regular aspirin right away. Chewing it gets it into your bloodstream twice as fast, where it can work on the platelets that are trying to clot.
February 2, 2009 - 9:49amThis Comment
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