RE: [HEALTH] 5 Signs A Woman Is Having A Heart Attack
That is really scary, @steemerpat! Thank goodness you're still around. I guess that was part of the point in the post - most women will find excuses for not seeking immediate help. We're generally the ones fixing the boo-boos or saying, "No, I don't have time to be sick."
My heart flutters don't happen very often but when they do, I attribute them to stress...or something. To this day I've never had it checked out because in my entire family history, no one's ever had a heart attack or any kind of heart disease. It's usually cancer. There was one brain aneurysm and only one relative (that I know of) who lived to be about 86 (old age & dementia). So, in my head I'm thinking... No way would I ever have a heart attack. Kind of silly, right?
And chances are that I would have done the same thing "not being a bother", especially if I was out with my pups because they're my fur babies and I would want to know they're safe and secure too. And that medical student... hopefully she got a lesson out of your experience...or joined a new field of study!
Yes, I wanted to illustrate the crazy thought process that can endanger women. It's good you're going to get checked for blockages--but possibly also for mitral valve prolapse? It's a mostly benign anomaly that a small percentage of people are born with, and it popped into my head when you mentioned a flutter. See info here and on other sites.
I discovered that I had MVP in my mid-thirties; I was overscheduled and stressed, and that's when I began having pain and other symptoms. I have the heart murmer that sometimes accompanies MVP; the doctor who diagnosed me (after imaging) could hear the murmer, but I've found since then that most doctors can't hear it.
The protocol for awhile in the U.S. was that anyone with MVP should take antibiotics before dental procedures, but after a while that requirement was dropped. By then I had been dosed with lots and lots of antibiotics.