My mother was complaining of chest pain, loss of energy and breathlessness for several months. How can you tell the difference between ingestion and the general ageing process and heart attack symptoms? She was being more and more inhalers for breathlessness while I believe congestive heart failure was not being investigated throughly enough. Any thoughts on this?
2006-10-15 22:14:23 · 10 answers · asked by Mayomaiden 3 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Heart Diseases
well my thoughts would be to get her to go and see a docotor before it's too late instead of guessing
2006-10-15 22:15:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Was Critical Care Paramedic for 6 years. We looked at 3 things in the er. The first was the description of the pain. We looked for crushing pain. Not pain that varied with breathing. The pain could be in the jaw, chest, left arm and especially in women, indigestion pain. The second was a 12 lead ekg. This looks at the electrical signal that tells the muscle to beat. We know the normal pathway of the signal. We are looking for variances from the norm. And last we draw cardiac enzymes. The heart muscle is different than all other muscle in the body. When the heart is being damaged, it puts out enzymes detectable in the blood. These can be troponin, of ckmb. If two of three are present, we send them for a Cath. That involves shooting dye from an iv in the thigh and taking fast xrays to look for damage. Treadmills are that, we just take 12 lead ekgs while getting a persons heart rate up. Hope this helps
2006-10-15 22:30:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I had those symptoms, it was hypertension (Hight blood pressure). It was giving me all sorts of problems. Maybe a medication review if she already has hypertension would be a good idea, or a check on her BP over a few weeks.
2006-10-15 22:27:05 · answer #3 · answered by mittobridges@btinternet.com 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i would get her to a cardiologist they can run tests to determine if its her heart and if there are any thing going
with it. i would get her to the doctor asap many a person
has mistaken a heart attack as indigestion.
2006-10-19 19:07:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should take her condition very seriously and take her to see a different doctor if you're not happy with the one you have now. Your gut feeling is usually right.
2006-10-15 22:28:50 · answer #5 · answered by mpicky2 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm not a doctor, but I suspect that if you had a heart attack, you'd know it. I suspect it hurts like a mofo. Also, doesn't it start in your chest and radiate to your arms?
2006-10-15 22:17:44 · answer #6 · answered by Good Times, Happy Times... 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Insist on her having a tredmill test and if this is not good then an angeogram.
2006-10-15 22:20:18 · answer #7 · answered by justme2 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get her checked out with your GP
2006-10-15 22:22:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i would definitely take her to the doctors just to be on the safe side.
2006-10-15 22:17:47 · answer #9 · answered by helen34 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to see the doctor quickly..
b4 its too late...
its the number one killer at Malaysia..
2006-10-15 22:28:42 · answer #10 · answered by nawar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋