Heart attacks symptoms are different for women. I recently learned this.
Everyone should know these things.
thanks to mainstream media and being unable to show breasts on TV, way too few people know about female signs of cardiac distress, and impending heart attacks. they only know about the “pain in the left arm” male symptom.
i had all these symptoms once and they sent me right to hospital
it was scary bc i didnt know these were the symptoms for female heart issues
Please, please, PLEASE, reblog this. i don’t know if I did save or called false alarm, with my boss’ life tonight. I felt I was being a bit paranoid, overreacting, but I told Mirage my thoughts and he, after reading over the article I showed him, immediately sprung into action and then shooed her off to the hospital. I don’t know if I did or not, but I knew she’d been super stressed. She’d off-handedly commented on her arm tingling and I asked her if she felt queasy on a hunch. I went to look at the symptoms and we went from there.
Holy shit, I didn’t even think the symptoms would be different between men and women. This is so hugely important and I don’t understand why we aren’t taught this.
One of the other symptoms that doesn’t get talked about , especially in women, is a “feeling of impending doom”. I am not even kidding, that is a legitimate diagnostic criteria.
Please - if you are feeling any of these symptoms and a sudden onset of “Holy shit the world is ending” do not let anyone tell you it’s “just nerves” or “just heartburn” or something.
Reblogging for general awareness but also hoping to get more info:
What about people who aren’t cisgender?
Do these symptoms manifest as a result of estrogen? Is it because of certain anatomy? What exactly causes the difference?
As a trans man taking hormones but not having gone through a hysterectomy, I have no idea which heart attack symptoms I should be aware of. I’m also not looking to derail this post as I’m genuinely curious if I fall under “male” or “ female” symptoms because I’ve never seen these posts answer that
Okay I want to be able to give you a definitive answer for that, but the exact reasons for a lot of heart attack symptoms are a little vague, and we’re not sure why they tend to differ along the cis male/cis female line. I might look into that and see if more research has happened since the last time I looked shit up. These CAN show up in anyone as symptoms of a heart attack, though, so I’d maybe keep an eye out regardless of gender/transition status/physical anatomy.