how do you know if your having a heart attack?

Question

symptoms??

im a 15 year old girll

Answer 1

Uncomfortable pressure, fullness, squeezing or pain in the center of the chest lasting more than a few minutes.

Pain spreading to the shoulders, neck or arms. The pain may be mild to intense. It may feel like pressure, tightness, burning, or heavy weight. It may be located in the chest, upper abdomen, neck, jaw, or inside the arms or shoulders.

Chest discomfort with lightheadedness, fainting, sweating, nausea or shortness of breath.

Anxiety, nervousness and/or cold, sweaty skin.


Increased or irregular heart rate.

Answer 2

Of course the hallmark signs of a heart attack are: intense pressure on the chest, shooting pain up the left arm and to the back, sweaty and clammy, short of breath. However, for a female the signs can be very vague even to the point of just a feeling of "something being wrong." Look up the American Heart Assoc. web site.

Answer 3

all the symptoms other people described are true for men, not women, we do NOT have the same symptoms- women experience pain in the back- btwn the shoulders and hard time swallowing- I know as I had these symptoms and didn't know it was a heart attack at the time, found out later. So be careful as yours might not be the same as a mans.

Answer 4

Four important things you must notice as per the Medical Bulletins
1. Person will be having severe back pain some where in his left side and started sweating .
2.If you ask him to talk one full sentence without any mistake, he will not.
3.If you ask him to raise his hand , he will not.
4.If you ask him to see your eyes (-Eye to eye contact-), he will not.
This is enough evidence for his heart attack. But once he go to the hospital he will be taken ECG to verify the tests. Yours
vrvrao

Answer 5

Just a suggestion, but if you think you or someone you know might be having a heart attack it might be a good idea to go to the hospital instead of posting questions on here...just a suggestion though ;o)

Answer 6

- Chest feels tight
- Dizzyness
- Shortness of breathe
- Numb feeling shooting up your arm

There are a lot of different symptoms. Do a www.google.com search!

Answer 7

When you go to the emergency room, they will take a blood test and measure your specific enzyme level.

Answer 8

if your left arm is tingling, you are having chest pain...
if you're having chest pain and no arm tingling though, you should definitely go to the emergency room.

Answer 9

you KNOW

Answer 10

you die