Am I Having A Heart Attack? Pt 2
Posted by Michelle Moquin on August 1st, 2011
Good morning!
As Promised…
Girls: If you didn’t pay attention to this article yesterday, today is the day you should make sure to read.
Be Heart Healthy
Some signs are surprising — especially for women
One of the symptoms for a heart attack in women is pain in the shoulder blades. — Photo by: Rosanne Olson/Getty Images
Learn more about the causes of heart attack, and how to prevent and treat heart conditions.
Symptoms more likely in women
Women have a higher risk of dying from a heart attack than men do, partly because they often don’t realize they’re having a heart attack and partly because they delay getting help.
Women are less likely than men to have the typical “Hollywood heart attack,” says Sharonne Hayes, M.D., cardiologist and director of the Mayo Clinic’s Women’s Heart Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Chest pain was not the main symptom in about 46 percent of women who had a heart attack, studies show.
- Pain in the arm (especially left arm), back, neck, abdomen or shoulder blades: When the nerves of the heart are irritated because the heart isn’t getting enough blood, discomfort or pain can radiate out to many places in the body. The pain often is described as an uncomfortable pressure, tightness or ache. “If you can put a finger on it and say, ‘It hurts right here,’ that’s much less likely to be a heart attack,” says Pamela Ouyang, a cardiologist with the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.
- Jaw pain: Jaw and throat pain are quite common, says Ouyang. She says the feeling can start in the chest and move to the throat — as if someone is choking you — and then to the jaw. But again, it’s not always obvious. Sometimes people “go to the dentist, because they think it’s a toothache,” when they actually had a heart attack.
- Nausea and vomiting: Women are more likely than men to have this symptom, and they may think they have a stomach flu rather than a heart attack.
- Overwhelming and unusual fatigue: Fatigue is generally a symptom of 21st-century life, so it’s often overlooked as a heart attack sign, but it’s extremely common, so beware if you’re unusually exhausted.
Is it a heart attack or just heart burn? Tomorrow you’ll find out how to tell the difference.
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Lea & Anna of Guam: Thanks to both of you for your comments. Anna, as I have said before I would love to come out for a visit. And I appreciate the open invitation. Someday I will be able to make it there. Hafa Adai.
Kelly: You’re welcome.
Peace & Love & Good Health.…
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August 1st, 2011 at 8:10 am
Dear Fellow Conservative,
When terrorists strike at home or abroad, and PC propagandists rush to assure us that jihadist terror doesn’t reflect “true,” “peaceful” Islam, they’re not only wrong, they’re dangerous — because they lull America and the West into letting their guard down against their mortal enemy.
And not only do self-appointed “experts” lie elaborately and persistently about Islam — they have also replaced the truth about Christian Europe and the Crusades with historical fantasy designed to make you ashamed of your own culture and heritage — and thus less determined to defend it.
But there’s a remedy: In The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to Islam (and the Crusades), Robert Spencer reveals all the disturbing facts about Islam and its murderous hostility to the West that other books ignore, soft-pedal, or simply lie about.
Best of all, it can be yours, free. Get more details now.
Your friend,
Thomas S. Winter
Editor in Chief, Human Events
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Dear Fellow American
Now that you have heard their self-appointed expert tell you what they want you to believe about how we are to view the religion of islam. Exclaiming that it is America’s “mortal enemy. It is time for my REBUTTAL.
It was only a short time ago these same self-appointed experts under the same conservative banner were exclaiming that Communism was America’s mortal enemy. But today those same “experts” are making a killing doing business with those communist countries. As a matter of fact their conservative US elected Presidents and House and Senate members wrote and signed into law bills that allowed China the largest and still most threatening to the most people worldwide to become our largest creditor.
They have enacted laws to make it easy for American corporations to export jobs to China and to import cheap dangerous products to America. Hypocrisy is what we are talking about. And they have not lost their touch when they tell you that today “islam is your mortal enemy. Why because those same people are making a killing doing business with those islamic countries.
Check your Conservative leaders and you will find that they are heavily invested in the stocks of the corporations that sell military, industrial, and other things to those Islamic countries. So you are forced to ask yourself what is their motive in attempting to make us fear islam?
Well it certainly is their objection to the beliefs of islam because the most terrible thing practiced by this cult is its insistence on subjugating their female population. Females under islamic law are reduced to animals with no rights against men who can legally practice pedophilia upon them, force them into “marriages” for money, control their every movement as if they were herd animals, and kill them at will.
Actually they still haven’t mentioned that as a reason to object to islam. That is because they don’t see the subjugation of women as a deterrent to doing business with countries that practice cruel and inhuman treatment of its citizens.
That is also why they don’t see the fact that China is the largest country on the planet that practices subjugation of its entire population of more than a billion people as a deterrent to doing business with them.
So why are they now telling us how dangerous islam is to America. The answer is simple. There is so much money and political power to be gained by playing the fear card.
Check the links out in their articles. First they churn you up by playing the danger card, then they play the patriotic card – That would be the paragraph where they make the claim that some PC person is telling lies about something we should believe about some “noble” event that happened in our past. (I’ll address that later)
Then they offer you for a price some books by political hacks in it for the money that refutes this terrible PC error. Further links offer you Investment advice to help you make it through financially all the terrible things that will happen if you don’t follow their advice because of the PC people’s stupid financial acumen.
Never mind that the people giving you this advice were the ones that when they held the political reins who steered us into these dire financial straits by giving the power to the corporations and banks to fleece us without legal or financial ramifications.
Oh, and on that truth about the Christian Europe Crusades, unless my geography is wrong they left Europe to force people in other countries and continents to believe as they do. Enough said.
Robert
Editor in Clear, as in clearer picture
August 1st, 2011 at 8:20 am
A SUGAR-COATED PILL THAT HELPS FIGHT INFECTION?
Have you ever been plagued by an infection that felt as if it would never go away? They’re known as recurrent infections because of their unerring ability to outsmart the medicines intended to do them in.
I am reminded of a colleague who developed a painful urinary tract infection (UTI) last year. After five or six days, it appeared to have gone, but in what was to become a recurring pattern, a UTI showed up again a month later, leading to another round of antibiotics.
That course of antibiotics seemed to stop the infection, until, boom, a few weeks later, yet another infection developed. It took my friend months for complete recovery.
We all know about the growing problem with antibiotic-resistant bacteria, but that’s not what was going on in this case.
There is now an explanation as to why these infections return again and again. And tantalizingly, there is a new study with mice that shows how a very common substance may help quickly resolve these infections the first time around.
PERSISTENT, NOT RESISTANT
The study I’m referring to was conducted by James Collins, PhD, professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University.
He is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship (sometimes called a MacArthur “genius grant”). But before we get to those findings, a bit of bacteria background is in order.
Dr. Collins explains that while doctors studying infectious diseases have focused their attention on antibiotic-resistant bacteria for a number of years, it is only in the last few that they started paying attention to another type of bacteria that they’ve tagged as persistent bacteria.
Here’s the difference — regular bacteria become resistant because they mutate genetically in response to an antibiotic, thus making it increasingly difficult to create drugs that will be successful in getting rid of them.
Persistent bacteria, on the other hand, do not mutate but have a physiological ability to become dormant — in effect to go to sleep for a period of time.
Familiar infections known to be associated with persistent bacteria include strep, tuberculosis, staph and many more.
When persistent bacteria are slumbering, they are invulnerable to antibiotics. This means that the medicine you take for an infection will wipe out the majority of the bacteria causing the illness, but not the few persisters, as they are called.
Later, for reasons not yet understood, certain persisters activate and cause new infection — and require another round of antibiotics.
Persisters are nothing if not canny adversaries… a few will continue to remain asleep and invulnerable, ready to “wake up” later.
WAKING ALL PERSISTERS
Now, if there were some way to rouse all of the infection-causing bacteria into an active state at the same time, one course of common antibiotics would wipe out the whole bunch.
The challenge, then, is to find a substance that would wake them all — and this is where Dr. Collins’s research comes in. Dr. Collins discovered that if he added sugar to antibiotics, all persisters were activated so that they could no longer evade the antibiotics.
His finding was robust indeed — when he administered antibiotics with sugar through an IV to mice with E. coli bacteria, a common cause of UTIs, the antibiotics wiped out 99.9% of the persistent bacteria in just two hours, compared with eliminating none of the persistent bacteria in the mice whose antibiotic IV did not include sugar.
A RARE WIN-WIN?
The next step is to test the method with humans. Success, if it comes, could have important implications for treating resistant bacteria as well as persisters.
It is quite possible that some cases of seemingly resistant bacteria are actually caused by persisters.
Having a strategy to kill all persistent bacteria with just one round of antibiotics would dramatically reduce the usage of antibiotics, and that in turn would help slow development of resistant bacteria — a real (and rare) win-win in our ongoing fight against bacteria.
Dr. Collins says that combining sugar with an antibiotic is such a simple potential treatment that he is hopeful human studies will move ahead quickly.
Many questions must be answered — including whether there are persistent bacteria that would not be awakened by sugar… and whether sugar itself might worsen certain infections, for example, yeast infections. We’ll keep our eye on this research.
Source(s):
James Collins, PhD, professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator
August 1st, 2011 at 8:55 am
HI Mischa, great info, some I knew some i did not, so thank you.
Lydia, seriously, wtf was that about?? You sound – unhinged, babe…
Luv, Zen Lill
August 1st, 2011 at 5:01 pm
It looks as though there are a few curious parties that wish to enter the realm of The Two…perhaps to locate the key to transport them to another dimension…
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/02/science/02dive.html?_r=1&hp
August 1st, 2011 at 6:47 pm
My Darling:
I know how much you love reading Michelle’s blog. So I know you have read Ym’s post. And you have often questioned me about whether he was me. I repeat no.
But reading Ym’s comment made me remember when we had our first private conversation. For the first time in my adult life I froze. I was so mesmerized by your eyes, voice and animation that with each movement of your head I could see and actually feel the strands of your hair play with my heartbeat.
Frankly I just wanted to finish my drink, cover my erection, and leave. I was certain that my long silence had made me seem the fool. But I said to myself shall I stay an attempt to speak intelligently to the most fascinating woman I may ever meet, or should I just walk away and pretend like this silly school-boy-crush, love-at-first-sight thing never happened?
Now when I look back and reflect upon our first romantic interlude. You were as bold in action as you were in speech. You took control of the moment from on set of our naked caressing. As I took you into my arm you ever so gently, slowly and lightly you moved your hand down between my cheeks, then a little deeper, a scintillation of pleasure moved through me, then your fingers slid towards my manhood, they tightened, it grew and throbbed with delight from your touch.
You knelt and placed the cutest red condom on my penis. I sighed because I did not want to think that this euphoric rare find would allow me to satisfy myself with her uncovered. At that moment you remained the most fascinating woman I had ever met.
And you still are.
Larry
August 1st, 2011 at 8:04 pm
Maybe mainland can learn something from Guam. We are forcing the dead beat parents to pay their child support. Here’s how.
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The Office of the Attorney General has found recent successes shrinking a list of parents with delinquent child support payments, and efforts will continue in full force this month.
“Unfortunately, there are some parents that need some gentle nudging,” said Attorney General Leonardo Rapadas during a proclamation signing yesterday at the governor’s office, which signified the start of Child Support Awareness Month.
Several community events are planned to help families better understand the child support program.
Rapadas said two methods of “nudging” that have found success have been publishing a massive delinquency list and arrest warrant notices, both of which have sparked movement from parents with debt.
The AG’s office published the list of about 1,015 names in May, but it had an impact before it was even published. More than 200 parents took steps to clear their names off the list in the months before publication, according to Pacific Daily News files.
At least in part, the delinquency list tapped into the motivating power of shame, Rapadas said. In a tight-knit community like Guam, few people want word of their debts to spread.
“It’s not like a mortgage debt,” Rapadas said. “It’s a debt on their child.”
With more serious offenders, the Superior Court of Guam will issue bench warrants.
The AG’s office has taken steps to have these warrants publicized on local television, which often prompts the parent to contact the marshals before a search begins.
“We’ve had people coming in, saying they want to get back into their child’s life — obviously they’ve had some nudging from us, but hopefully it goes beyond that and they want to do this on their own,” Rapadas said. “If we are able to do this, the future looks much brighter.”
For those who aren’t spurred by the shame of the delinquency list, and don’t come forward in fear of a warrant, incarceration may be the only motivator, Rapadas said.
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It’s a shame that parents don’t want to support the lives they brought into this world. I say if you don’t want to support the child wear a condom.
Hafa Adai
Anna
August 1st, 2011 at 8:11 pm
It is our understanding that North Korea is preparing a mid-range missile that can reach Guam. If the US doesn’t do something to deter this, we will.
Whether they employ underground or mobile units to avoid detection is unimportant to us. We will deal with the island with natural deterrents.
We have petitioned the Emperor to allow us to use out technology to create a nuclear disaster on the island. We feel that that would send the best message. Humans are often deaf to the reasonable.
11ok65ru
August 1st, 2011 at 8:15 pm
Robert Reich, Op-Ed: “The deal does not raise taxes on America’s wealthy and most fortunate — who are now taking home a larger share of total income and wealth, and whose tax rates are already lower than they have been, in eighty years.
Yet it puts the nation’s most important safety nets and public investments on the chopping block. It also hobbles the capacity of the government to respond to the jobs and growth crisis.”
August 1st, 2011 at 8:17 pm
Amy Goodman, Op-Ed: “According to Nobel Prize-winning economist Joe Stiglitz, the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan alone will exceed $5 billion.
With a cost like this, why isn’t war central to the debate over the national debt? Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler had it right 75 years ago when he said of war:
“It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious [racket]. … It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives …
It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many.”
August 1st, 2011 at 8:29 pm
One of the biggest profit making schemes involves taking total control of an African nation’s water supply. Then the people are gouged at the faucets when they go for potable drinking water the way Americans are gouged at their fuel pumps.
The difference is many people are dying from thirst, and the use of polluted water because they can not afford the prices the controlling corporations are charging them.
On many occasions the corporations pretend to be experiencing a water shortage to enable them to justify raising their prices. Many Africans suffer horrible and painful deaths because of their lack of access to portable water that is safe to drink. They are forced to use whatever water that is nearby or that they can find.
The corporations are white run and owned so they have little sympathy for the suffering and deaths they are causing in the name of profit.
August 1st, 2011 at 8:31 pm
Jim Hightower, Op-Ed: “America has big needs right now. But those needs are not even being addressed.
Suffering from what appears to be incurable ethicalitis, these moneyed narcissists are demanding that officials of both parties make devastating budget cuts in programs that help working families, while also insisting that their own lavish fortunes be spared from even the slightest dings.
What a shameful time in our history! Can’t America do better than this?”
August 1st, 2011 at 8:34 pm
Marriage Equality and the 2012 Election
News Analysis: “With so much attention being focused on job growth, the debt ceiling, and the economy, it’s hard to imagine that same-sex marriage will have a major impact on the 2012 election.
In a July 27 article, however, U.S. News & World Report’s Mallie Jane Kim argues that marriage equality could become a “politically potent issue” in close races.
If marriage equality becomes a major issue in 2012, anti-gay Republicans will be in an uncomfortable position.”
August 1st, 2011 at 8:47 pm
One thing that was evident from this weekend’s dealings in Washington, D.C. on the debt ceiling is that Republicans would be better off if they controlled more of the government.
So, it goes without saying that it is more than essential for the GOP to take back the White House in 2012.
For Republicans to win the White House, they will need western frontier voters and women voters to put them over the top.
And this weekend, two Summits—the Smart Girl Politics Summit in St. Louis and the Western Conservative Summit in Colorado—symbolically represented the types of voters that will be crucial to any winning GOP coalition in 2012.
Representing the state of enthusiasm in the race at this moment, Michele Bachmann narrowly edged out Cain in the Smart Girl Politics Straw Poll, which did not have Rick Perry or Sarah Palin on the ballot.
In Denver, Herman Cain won the Straw Poll at the Western Conservative Summit with 48% of the vote. Rick Perry came in second place at 13%.
The race though may be shaken up in the coming months by the potential entries of two people who would represent these demographics: Rick Perry and Sarah Palin.
Perry’s led Texas and has made Texas synonymous with economic growth.
Palin symbolically represents the frontier ethos better than any candidate.
The entry of both candidates will reset the 2012 race, which it is essential for the GOP to win.
— Tony Lee
August 1st, 2011 at 8:51 pm
Wow! Another wannbe white asian kissing white ass for the privilege. Of course he’s hoping to score some attention from white women too.
Zhi
August 1st, 2011 at 9:02 pm
Once again you heard it here first the republicans would agree on a deal to increase the debt once they had squeezed out the best price they could get for Gold and Silver.
Keep up the good work, Anonz and Robert and of course your Desk Anonz.
I make many of my investments based on your tweets to this blog.
I haven’t taken a loss yet.
Elliot
August 1st, 2011 at 9:21 pm
Eugene Robinson, Op-Ed: “The premise of the debt-ceiling fight is too far-fetched for a Stooges film, since no audience could imagine leaders of a great nation stumbling into such a mess.
Moe’s trademark line is still relevant, however, even if it’s not followed by the two-fingered poke in the eyes that our elected officials richly deserve.
It is clear that unless President Obama ends up taking unilateral action to break a hopeless deadlock, Republicans will win. “
August 1st, 2011 at 9:31 pm
YOU COULD GO DEAF (AFTER TAKING Erection Dysfunction DRUGS)!
Remember the hilarious scene from the movie Something’s Gotta Give? Jack Nicholson, in the hospital with a suspected heart attack, refused to admit that he had taken Viagra… until the doctor began listing all the dangerous side effects.
I thought about that scene when I read the research report I am about to share with you — imagining it rewritten so that the doctor is talking away but the patient can’t hear a thing!
Because it turns out that there is yet another nasty potential side effect of ED drugs like Viagra — total hearing loss.
While these drugs already carry a black-box warning stating that “sudden decrease or loss of hearing has been rarely reported,” experts think the problem is serious enough to warrant further warnings from doctors.
WHAT DID THE RESEARCH SAY?
Researchers in London just released a study that gathers information about 47 cases of sudden hearing loss associated with use of ED drugs — and more with sildenafil (Viagra) than the others — in North America, Europe, East Asia and Australia.
If you find that number of cases underwhelming, you’ll want to know that this study left out 240 apparent cases that occurred here in the US because the researchers didn’t have sufficient detail.
What’s different from the earlier warning: This study focused specifically on sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL).
It’s rare, but it can be devastating in that it sometimes results in permanent hearing loss.
It’s thought that SSLH is sometimes caused by a head trauma or infection, but in most cases, it seems to come out of nowhere.
The London researchers looked exclusively at cases of SSHL that developed within 24 hours of taking an ED drug — two-thirds of the total.
Statistically, one-third of the victims of this condition never regain their hearing.
24-HOUR CONNECTION
I called otolaryngologist Eric Smouha, MD, director of otology and neurotology at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City to learn more about the connection between ED drugs and SSHL.
In his view, the association is inconclusive, though he did agree that the fact that all these men experienced hearing loss within 24 hours of taking the drugs was “pretty compelling.”
He told me that further research is required to answer some important questions, specifically …
Which of the drug users are at greatest risk for SSHL — regular, occasional or first-time users?
Is there any physical condition that would put someone at higher risk?
Why did SSHL develop most often after men (and the occasional woman) took Viagra rather than one of the other drugs?
Until these questions can be answered, Dr. Smouha urges anyone who uses or is considering using Viagra or another ED drug to check with his doctor and bring up the question of effects on hearing.
And no doubt we will all be hearing much more about SSLH and ED drugs in the next few years, says Dr. Smouha.
Even though the numbers of people currently known to be affected are small, this report is giving the problem a higher profile, and drug surveillance agencies around the world are going to take note.
Once they start looking, who knows what they might find?
Source(s):
Eric Smouha, MD, director of otology and neurotology at The Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York City.
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