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​Woman Tweets Her Heart Attack Symptoms To Help Warn Others

​Woman Tweets Her Heart Attack Symptoms To Help Warn Others

She ‘almost died’ after trying to ignore the symptoms

Jess Hardiman

Jess Hardiman

Most of us assume that if we were having a heart attack, we'd probably know about it. And yet if I started showing symptoms, I'm not sure I'd immediately clock that that's what it was - maybe hoping in vain that something like a heart attack could never happen to me.

Well, one woman has taken to Twitter to share her experience of a heart attack after she 'almost died' when she tried to ignore the symptoms, arguing that women's heart attacks 'feel different' to those that men have.

The woman, whose Twitter handle is @geewheeziegeewheezie, wrote: "I want to warn women our heart attacks feel different. Last Sunday I had a heart attack. I had a 95 percent block in my left anterior descending artery. I'm alive because I called 911. I never had chest pain. It wasn't what you read in pamphlets. I had it off and on for weeks.

"The pain ran across my upper back, shoulder blades and equally down both arms. It felt like burning and aching. I actually thought it was muscle strain. It wasn't until I broke into drenching sweat & started vomiting that I called 911.

"I'm a nurse. I'm an older woman. I had been spending the week helping my neighbour clean out her barn, I thought I strained some muscles. I took Motrin and put a warm pack on my shoulders, I almost died because I didn't call it chest pain.

The series of tweets has racked up tens of thousands of likes and retweets.
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"The day before my heart attack I drove six hours to help my mother who lives in another state. I thought I should go to a doctor but I had to help my mom who is 90 and I'd just tough it out because it wasn't real bad.

"I was lucky, I had no idea what hospital to go to, the female medics who picked me up took me to a hospital that does cardiac caths. I had four stents placed an hour after I got to the ER. That was Sunday. I was discharged Thurs and at my daughter's house and back to tweeting."

The series of tweets has racked up tens of thousands of likes and retweets, with many praising the woman for sharing her story - and others even saying that they'd been in a similar boat.

"This also happened to my mother a year ago and she also went to the ER thinking it was really bad HEARTBURN," another woman wrote.

"Thank goodness she decided to stop worrying about complaining!"

Urging others to keep sharing their stories, she added: "It will save lives."

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Topics: News, Health