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 I was aware that female heart attacks are different, but this is the
 best description I've ever read. You all take care out there!

 Women and heart attacks (Myocardial infarction)

 Did you know that women rarely have the same dramatic symptoms that men
 have when experiencing heart attack...you know, the sudden stabbing pain
 in the chest, the cold sweat, grabbing the chest & dropping to the floor
 that we see in the movies. Here is the story of one woman's experience
 with a heart attack.

 "I had a completely unexpected heart attack at about 10:30 pm with NO
 prior exertion, NO prior emotional trauma that one would suspect
 might've brought it on. I was sitting all snugly & warm on a cold
 evening, with my purring cat in my lap, reading an interesting story my
 friend had sent me, and actually thinking,"A-A-h, this is the life, all
 cozy and warm in my soft, cushy Lazy Boy with my feet propped up." A
 moment later, I felt that awful sensation of indigestion, when you've
 been in a hurry and grabbed a bite of sandwich and washed it down with a
 dash of water, and that hurried bite seems to feel like you've swallowed
 a golf ball going down the esophagus in s low motion and it is most
 uncomfortable. You realize you shouldn't have gulped it down so fast and
 needed to chew it more thoroughly and this time drink a glass of water
 to hasten its prog ress down to the stomach. This was my initial
 sensation---the only trouble was that I hadn't taken a bite of anything
 since about 5:00 p.m.

 "After that had seemed to subside, the next sensation was like little
 squeezing motions that seemed to be racing up my SPINE (hind-sight, it
 was probably my aorta spasming), gaining speed as they continued racing
 up and under my sternum (breast bone, where one presses rhythmically
 when adminstering CPR). This fascinating process continued on into my
 throat and branched out into both jaws.

 "AHA!! NOW I stopped puzzling about what was happening--we all have read
 and/or heard about pain in the jaws being one of the signals of an MI
 happening, haven't we? I said aloud to myself and the cat, "Dear God, I
 think I'm having a heart attack !" I lowered the foot rest, dumping the
 cat from my lap, started to take a step and fell on the floor instead. I
 thought to myself "If this is a heart attack, I shouldn't be walking
 into the next room where the phone is or anywhere else.......but, on the
 other hand, if I don't, nobody will know that I need help, and if I wait
 any longer I may not be able to get up in a moment."

My self help kicked in!

 "I pulled myself up with the arms of the chair, walked slowly into the
 next room and dialed the Paramedics... I told her I thought I was having
 a heart attack due to the pressure building under the sternum and
 radiating into my jaws. I didn't feel hysterical or afraid, just stating
 the facts. She said she was sending the Paramedics over immediately,
 asked if the front door was near to me, and if so, to unbolt the door
 and then lie down on the floor where they could see me when they came
 in.

 "I then laid down on the floor as instructed and lost consciousness, as
 I don't remember the medics coming in, their examination, lifting me
 onto a gurney or getting me into their ambulance, or hearing the call
 they made to St. Jude ER on the way, but I did briefly awaken when we
 arrived and saw that the Cardiologist was already there in his surgical
 blues and cap, helping the medics pull my stretcher out of the
 ambulance. He was bending over me asking questions (probably something
 like "Have you taken any
 medications?") but I couldn't make my mind interpret what he was saying,
 or form an answer, and nodded off again, not waking up until the
 Cardiologist and partner had already threaded the teeny angiogram
 balloon up my femoral artery into the aorta and into my heart where they
 installed 2 side by side stents to hold open my right coronary artery.

 "I know it sounds like all my thinking and actions at home must have
 taken at least 20-3 0 minutes before calling the Paramedics, but
 actually it took perhaps 4-5 minutes before the call, and both the fire
 station and St. Jude are only minutes away from my home, and my
 Cardiologist was already to go to the OR in his scrubs and get going on
 restarting my heart (which had stopped somewhere between my arrival and
 the procedure) and installing the stents.

 "Why have I written all of this to you with so much detail? Because I
 want all of you who are so important in my life to know what I learned
 first hand."

 1. Be aware that something very different is happening in your body not
 the usual men's symptoms, but inexplicable things happening (until my
 sternum and jaws got into the act ). It is said that many more women
 than men die of their first (and last) MI because they didn't know they
 were having one, and commonly mistake it as indigestion, take some
 Maalox or other anti-heartburn preparation, and go to bed, hoping
 they'll feel better in the morning when they wake up....which doesn't
 happen. My female friends, your symptoms might not be exactly like mine,
 so I advise you to call the Paramedics if ANYTHING is unpleasantly
 happening that you've not felt before. It is better to have a "false
 alarm" visitation than to risk your life guessing what it might be!

 2. Note that I said "Call the Paramedics". Ladies, TIME IS OF THE
 ESSENCE! Do NOT try to drive yourself to the ER--you're a hazard to
 others on the road, and so is your panicked husband who will be speeding
 and looking anxiously at what's happening with you instead of the road.
 Do NOT call your doctor--he doesn't know where you live and if it's at
 night you won't reach him anyway, and if it's daytime, his assistants
 (or answering service) will tell you to call the Paramedics. He doesn't
 carry the equipment in his car that you need to be saved! The Paramedics
 do, princip ally OXYGEN that you need ASAP. Your Dr. will be notified
 later.

 3. Don't assume it couldn't be a heart attack because you have a normal
 cholesterol count. Research has discovered that a cholesterol elevated
 reading is rarely the cause of an MI (unless it's unbelievably high,
 and/or accompanied by high blood pressure.) MI's are usually caused by
 long-term stress and inflammation in the body, which dumps all sorts of
 deadly hormones into your system to sludge things up in there. Pain in
 the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let's be careful and be aware.
 The more we know, the better chance we could survive...

 A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this mail sends it to 10
 people, you can be sure that we'll save at least one life.

 **Please be a true friend and send this article to all your friends you
 care about

 /*/_Personal Note from the woman who sent this to me_/*/

 Thank goodness my doctor connected my back pain to my heart or I may not
 be here. Remember, I tried to delay my surgery and the doctor said it
 was my choice but I may not live that long.  Now they check my heart any
 time I have pain anywhere near the area of my heart.

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