therunscape:

Heart attacks symptoms are different for women. I recently learned this. 

 

veggiebaker:

Everyone should know these things.

 

131-di:

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.

 

lockrocksandcoke:

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

 

dewgonair:

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.

 

francsforthememories:

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. 

 

moonblossom:

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.

 

ursulavernon:

Buddy of mine having a minor cardiac episode DID get eventual left arm pain—but she got jaw pain first and shortness of breath. Pay attention!

Worth noting that even if you focus on cis people, heart attack symptoms don’t divide up neatly into “male” and “female”. These are symptoms disproportionately experienced by women, but be wary of them no matter what your reproductive phenotype. Conversely, be wary of the “male” symptoms regardless of phenotype.

The website listed on the infographic acknowledges this, using phrases like “women are more likely than men to” and “women are twice as likely as men to”, but I figure not everyone will look at the website.

(Does anyone else think they shouldn’t have said “any one of these symptoms” about a list including nausea? It seems like a pretty bad idea to treat every bout of nausea like it could be a heart attack.)

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