The viral tweet of the nurse reveals how the symptoms of heart attack are different for women

"I almost matured because I did not call the chest pain."


Every year, about 735,000 Americans suffer a heart attack and, for many, the result is sorry. According toCDC, one on four die of heart disease in the United States, making it the leading cause of death for men and women. And yet, a 2005 survey revealed that only 27% of respondents were aware of all the major symptoms of a heart attack, which is terrible because the detection of early warning panels is crucial for survival.

Most people consider that chest pain is the only sign that heart attack is on the horizon, but any body pain or malaise in arms, back, neck, jaw or upper stomach can also be A major symptom.

Twitter User@geeheezie,Who is a nurse, learned that difficult and decided to share his story as a warning to other womenin a thread This now has more than 26,000 retweets.

"I want to warn women that our heart attacks feel different. Last Sunday, I had a heart attack. I had a block of 95% in my previous anterior of the descendant artery. I'm alive because J 'Ai called 911. I have never had any chest pain. Was not what you read in pamphlets. I had weeks and more weeks. The pain crossed my high back, My blades shoulder and in both arms. It was like burning and painful. I thought it was a muscular strain. Was it not until I broke in the sweat soaked and I started to vomish that I called 911. I am a nurse. I am an older woman. I am an older woman. I had spent the week helping my neighbor to clean her barn, I thought I stretched myself muscles. I took Motrin and put a hot packet on my shoulders, I'm almost dead because I did not call it chest pain. The vei The heart of my heart attacks, I led six hours to help my mother lives in another state. I thought I should have to go to a [doctor] but I had to help my mother at 90 and I just hurt it because it was not really bad. I was lucky, I had no idea Wha t hospital to go to, the female doctors who took me took me to a hospital that makes heart catches, I had 4 stents an hour after I arrived at emergency. It was Sunday. I was discharged Thursday and my daughterhouse and return to tweeting. "

While nausea, vomiting and pains in your arms are listed as major warning signs of cardiac crises in general,@geeheezie is just wanting to "warn women than our heart attacks feel differently".

According toACLS"Heart disease is the number one killer of the women in the United States, killing a woman over four each year. Why is heart disease so murderer in women? One of the reasons is that" typical "symptoms of heart attack - Chest overcurgating the pain that radiates the left arm - does not describe what many women feel during their heart attacks. As a result, women ignore or minimize their heart attack symptoms until it is too late. "

Although women can feel pain in the chest, it seems that women are more likely than men to live deep and dull pain in their armpits as a sign of warning and transmit it as a muscular strain.

The other nurses commented on the wire to warn women than a "deep and dull left and possibly armpit, which can go down to your size", which persists for one to two weeks, can be a hidden symptom. A heart attack is a heart attack on his way.

Cardiovascular disease is generally misinterpreted as an affliction that mainly affects menThat's why a lot of information we have especially do not apply as much to women. As such, it is essential to know that chest pain is not the only warning sign.

And for more things about how to avoid a heart attack, read on the only very simple thingPost-menopausal women can do to reduce the risk of heart failure by 25%.

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