Tina, this is a smart, provocative post that should get many women thinking.
I saw an episode on heart disease in women on Oprah once where she interviewed women who were only diagnosed with heart attacks after they insisted on an EKG. They had to push for this because their symptoms were mimicking things like indigestion and back pain. Yet they just knew that something wasn't right.
Once again, we have to trust our intuition about our bodies. We are the only ones who know when we don't feel well, and we are the only ones who can insist that we be taken care of.
A surprising fact: The National Institute of Health studied 515 women who had had heart attacks and found that less than a third of them reported any chest pain before their attacks, and less than half had any pain during any phase of the attack. We really, truly have to be in tune with other symptoms.
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Tina, this is a smart, provocative post that should get many women thinking.
I saw an episode on heart disease in women on Oprah once where she interviewed women who were only diagnosed with heart attacks after they insisted on an EKG. They had to push for this because their symptoms were mimicking things like indigestion and back pain. Yet they just knew that something wasn't right.
Once again, we have to trust our intuition about our bodies. We are the only ones who know when we don't feel well, and we are the only ones who can insist that we be taken care of.
A surprising fact: The National Institute of Health studied 515 women who had had heart attacks and found that less than a third of them reported any chest pain before their attacks, and less than half had any pain during any phase of the attack. We really, truly have to be in tune with other symptoms.
Here's more information about the NIH research:
http://usgovinfo.about.com/cs/healthmedical/a/womensami.htm
How did your stress test go? Did you learn anything that surprised you? Or that will change the way you go about your daily life?
April 16, 2009 - 9:53amThis Comment
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