![]() ![]() Weakness: in the days leading up to a heart attack as well as during one, some people experience severe, unexplained weakness.Īnd as Cleveland Clinic cardiologist Dr. This can cause swelling (often in the feet, ankles, legs, or abdomen) as well as sudden weight gain and sometimes a loss of appetite.ġ2. Swelling:heart failure can cause fluid to accumulate in the body. Sweating: breaking out in an unusual cold clammy sweat is a common sign of heart attack.ġ1. Shortness of breath: feeling winded at rest or with minimal exertion, “like you’ve just run a marathon when you haven’t even moved”, might be a significant cardiac symptom.ġ0. Rapid or irregular pulse: there’s usually nothing worrisome about an occasional skipped heartbeat, but a rapid or irregular pulse – especially when accompanied by weakness, dizziness, or shortness of breath – can be evidence of a heart attack, heart failure, or a cardiac arrhythmia.ĩ. Men sometimes feel pain radiating down their left arm, but women are more likely to feel this in either arm or both, or in the back between the shoulder blades.Ĩ. But remember that many women experience no chest symptomsat all, or their symptoms might come and go. Pain in other parts of the body:pain or discomfort can begin in the chest and spread to shoulders, arms, elbows, upper back, neck, jaw, throat or abdomen. Nausea or vomiting: it’s not uncommon for women to feel sick to their stomach or vomit during a heart attack.ħ. See also: How women can tell if they’re headed for a heart attackĦ. Fatigue: especially among women, unusual crushing fatigue can occur during a heart attack as well as in the days and weeks leading up to one. Dizziness: heart attacks or heart rhythm abnormalities can cause light-headedness or even loss of consciousness.ĥ. Cough:persistent coughing or wheezing can be a cardiac symptom.Ĥ. ![]() See also: 85% of hospital admissions for chest pain are NOT heart attackģ. Women commonly describe their chest symptoms as tightness, fullness, burning, heaviness or pressure – NOT pain. N ot all chest pain means a heart attack. Pain in the chest is the classic symptom of the Hollywood heart attack, but not all heart attacks cause chest pain (at least 10% of women’s heart attacks, in fact, hit with absolutely no chest symptoms at all (1) – and that number in some studies is estimated as high as 42% (2). ![]() Chest discomfort: notice the word here is ‘discomfort’, not necessarily ‘pain’. It can be tough to tell the difference betwee n panic or anxiety and real cardiac symptoms.Ģ. Heart attack survivors often talk about having experienced an unusual “sense of impending doom” leading up their cardiac event. Anxiety: take it from me, a heart attack can cause intense anxiety. If the following 12 potential heart attack symptoms occur – alone or in combination, and especially if they feel unusual for you, you must act immediately:ġ. blaming them on stress, muscle soreness, indigestion or other less serious non-cardiac causes.Women are also less likely than our male counterparts to seek immediate help at the first sign of cardiac symptoms. ![]() By Carolyn Thomas ♥ you know that women generally fare far worse than men after experiencing a cardiac event? One possible reason is that it can be confusing to make sense of warning symptoms when they do hit. ![]()
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