Am I Having A Heart Attack?
Posted by Michelle Moquin on July 31st, 2011
I realize that I post articles quite often about health and staying healthy. Why? Well, simply because I care.
Am I Having a Heart Attack?
Some signs are surprising — especially for women
Spending precious minutes searching for information about heart attack symptoms as you experience them is not wise, doctors say, because “time is heart muscle.”
“If you think you’re having a heart attack, that’s not the time to try and figure out whether you’re right,” says Gordon Tomaselli, M.D., president-elect of theAmerican Heart Association, who adds he has patients who have done exactly that.
And yet, among the most commonly searched subjects online is “heart attack signs,” according to the search engine Google. In fact, the number of searches for that term has increased by a whopping 90 percent in the last five years or so, according a company spokesperson. Searches for “Am I having a heart attack?” alone have risen by more than 35 percent since 2008, the company says.
One reason people are searching online for emergency information is that it’s not always easy to tell whether you’re having a heart attack — even doctors have a tough time knowing without tests. If you suspect you’re having a heart attack, call for an ambulance immediately. And don’t be embarrassed if it turns out you’re not.
“It’s not always straightforward,” says Tomaselli. “If you develop the classic symptoms — pressing chest pain, sweating, nausea — then you’re pretty clear that there’s a big problem that needs to be dealt with quickly.” But, he says, many people, especially women, may develop completely different symptoms when experiencing a heart attack.
Common symptoms in men and women
You should pay particular attention to the following signs if — like more than half of all Americans — you are over 50, have high blood pressure, have high cholesterol, are a smoker or have a family history of heart disease. A heart attack occurs when the blood supply to the heart is blocked, damaging the muscle. Chewing aspirin (either one regular or two baby) helps the heart by thinning the blood.
- Chest pain: Most people do call 911 or get to the hospital if they feel like they’ve got an elephant sitting on their chest, but even this most common heart attack symptom may be hard to recognize. It may just feel like a squeezing that lasts more than a few minutes or goes away and comes back. “It may be a chest fullness that they don’t recognize as pain,” says Tomaselli, who is also chief of cardiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. “Sometimes it doesn’t particularly hurt. It’s an uncomfortable sensation.” If chest pain lasts more than five minutes, go to the emergency room.
- Shortness of breath: You may feel you can’t catch your breath, even when resting. This breathlessness often occurs before the chest pain.
- Dizziness or lightheadedness: You may feel as if you will pass out.
- Cold sweat: Sweating when you are cold or have a chill.
Readers: Stay tuned for “symptoms more likely in women”.
Kelly: Yes you can still go, and yes I can make this happen for you. It is a done.
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Bab: Murdoch’s thoughts of “lying low” may be too late – I’m sure there are others whose vision of him “lying low” is deep underground.
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July 31st, 2011 at 11:07 am
This white girl wants to critique your statement about white women in your wordy statement about our founding fathers. You wrote.
Alycedale Says:
July 31st, 2011 at 10:58 am
Claire, I like your post.
God, I am so tired too of white men trying to rewrite history. Just how is this “clear-sighted conservative historian, Dr. Brion McClanahan” supposed to set the record straight?
I mean the founding fathers were white, yes? They were sexist unless there is another definition for men who discriminate against women, yes? And the founding fathers did give the rights to WHITE MEN only, they did not include white women.
My issue is with the white women who get behind the white men promoting this shit. C’mon you are already considered the dumbest female group on the planet. Do you have to continue to confirm it by swallowing this “historian’s” lying sack of shit.
This is the time when we start referring to conservative historians as mystorians, meaning – MY story of how history happened.
That would explain how he will tell us that the founder fathers who owned slaves were not slave holders. But they did own slaves, Yes.
Oh and how about his story about how the founders risked their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor for the cause of liberty?
If I may first address that thrown in for general acceptance “sacred honor.” They may have some claim to honor, but “scared,” they were white, sexist, money grubbing, slave owners for God’s sake.
How the fuck does that translate into “sacred honor.” Could someone please bring a motherfucker to the table with clean hands before we start handing out the “scared honor” titles?
Those founding fathers did risk the lives, fortunes and honor of OTHERS in the battle with the British for the control of little fiefdoms for themselves. But it was not about establishing the United States.
Forget about political correctness, how about a little historical accuracy? The USA is a Federation. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the difference between a Federation and what the founding fathers were attempting to found which was a CONFEDERATION.
A FEDERATION is a group of states with a central government but independence in internal affairs.
That is not what the founding fathers had in mine when they penned the constitution. They were about a confederation. You need to understand the difference to understand the true motives of the “foundering fathers.”
Because if you understand the meaning of a Confederation which is an organization that consists of a number of parties or groups united in an alliance or league, then it may dawn on you that the United States as we know it today had a different set of founding fathers.
The others being lauded were a bunch of clever opportunists bent on carving out individual little independent organization, fiefdoms for personal profit and aggrandizement.
“Personal Aggrandizement is a tradition held in high esteem by most of the bankers and financiers in a the USA today.
Hence one of the reasons to continue this charade to make those men more that what they were. Greed becomes your new “Classic,” if one can maintain it against all legal attempts to stop you before you die.
But the “founding fathers” did not want a group of states with a central government. The wanted independent states they could rule in as kings. The only connection they wanted with the other states was to have a united means of defending themselves against a common enemy, something on the order of NATO.
So yes those white, sexist, slaving holding self aggrandizing bastards were the founding fathers of the NATO of the 13 colonies. But they were at best the accidental starters of what is today the Federated states of American that we know as the United States of America.
That is not politically correct it is historically correct. I defy any of the historical scholars to refute my claim with their extensive historical credentials and thereby supposed superior knowledge on the subject matter.
These United States of America were formed in the most part in defiance of most of the original founding fathers.
Alycedale
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Why do all you black jealous bitches feel that you have to put us white women down because you black men want us so bad when they get a few dollars stuffed in their pockets.
Don’t blame us for the Tiger Woods who need us on their arms and in their beds to feel like they have made it and they are somebody.
We are the Gold Standard to them because we are the only ones who have the golden hair baby. So hows that stack up against all that shit you wrote??
HAAAAAAA, We white women get to laugh all the way to the bank with the money those monkey men of yours just can’t wait to put in our pockets.
HaHaHaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Lydia
July 31st, 2011 at 11:13 am
Hurricane Alert! Steps to Protect Your Home
Danny Lipford
The peak of hurricane season is now upon us, and this year the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration expects to see an above-normal Atlantic storm season.
What home owners need to do to protect their properties…
Cover windows with plywood. Don’t try to do this alone—and don’t wait until the last minute. Cutting plywood to size and securing it over a typical home’s windows is a full-day job for two physically fit people.
Alternative: Polycarbonate is stronger than plywood and lighter and easier to maneuver. It’s available at many home stores in hurricane-prone regions.
If you live in an area at frequent risk for hurricanes, you might want to invest in storm shutters. These are very easy to close but cost around $400 to $800 per window, including professional installation.
Attach window coverings properly. Neither plywood nor polycarbonate will protect windows if high winds pull the coverings off. The most secure method is to use screws at least two inches long—never nails—positioned every 12 to 16 inches around the window’s perimeter.
Screw into sleeve anchors or expanding anchors, not into the wall. When hurricane season is over, you can use vinyl screw hole covers — available in most hardware stores in hurricane-prone areas—to cover up the holes where the plywood was attached.
If you have a brick or stucco home, you can use PLYLOX window clips—they can hold plywood in window casings without your having to drill holes in walls. (800-583-4289, http://www.Plylox.com)
Label window covers. Note on each cover which window it fits and which side is up—to save time when you put them up in later years.
Don’t trust an “X” of tape to protect windows and glass doors. Tape does nothing to protect windows during a hurricane and virtually nothing to prevent glass shards from flying around the room if the window does shatter.
Secure the garage. Garage doors often are blown in or sucked out during hurricanes. Double-wide doors are particularly vulnerable. Many garage-door makers sell reinforcement kits.
Trim trees. Trim any tree branch that could scrape against your shingles or siding if a strong wind blows it in that direction—do this each year before hurricane season. Remove dying trees and any dead branches that could snap off and hit your home.
Know where your home’s water, gas and electric cutoffs are located. You might need to turn these off in a hurry if a water pipe breaks in the storm… you smell gas… or walls are torn open and wiring is exposed.
Take “before” photos. Use a camera or video camera to record your home, possessions and landscaping before the hurricane strikes. This will help you make an insurance claim later, if necessary.
Don’t drain the pool or leave it empty. Water protects pools against falling debris and prevents high winds from pulling pools out of the ground or off the ground in the case of aboveground pools. Don’t worry about the pool overflowing in the storm—pools can cope with that.
Bring filter lids and other easily removed pool components inside so that they do not blow away.
Personal interviewed Danny Lipford, who has worked as a contractor in Alabama for more than 30 years.
He is the host of the nationally syndicated television program Today’s Homeowner with Danny Lipford and home-maintenance consultant for The Weather Channel and CBS’s The Early Show. http://www.DannyLipford.com
July 31st, 2011 at 11:14 am
Lydia, you went stanky on a girl.
July 31st, 2011 at 11:23 am
“Stanky,” yeah, but a whole lot of truth, too. Your point was well taken Alycedale.
Lydia, what you say may be true, but how does that change the image white females in the US have because most of them follow lockstep behind the idiotic behavior of their men?
Maybe the attraction black men have for your group is that they want some of that lockstep behavior for themselves too. After all they are men and men regardless of the color of their skin in general like to think their shit don’t stink.
OTW women on the other hand are all too ready to tell her man that his shit stinks if it does. We want equality not only from the racist environment we are forced to exist in from white america but we want the same from our men.
To an OTW woman there is very little difference between the sexism we have to take from our black men and the racism we have to take from the white world.
Arriane
July 31st, 2011 at 11:26 am
Alycedale:
I hope you won’t dignify that post from Lydia with a comment.
Most white women do not think like that.
Sidney
July 31st, 2011 at 11:32 am
Hafa Adai Michelle.
Loved your article on the Fadang. It went around the island and a lot of people never even knew about the flower or its endangerment.
You are the best.
Lea
July 31st, 2011 at 11:34 am
Ditto Sidney
July 31st, 2011 at 11:36 am
Michelle:
Thank you.
July 31st, 2011 at 8:21 pm
Sweetheart:
I know I said you are my meat. I can never be sure which gives me the greater pleasure, you allowing me to say it, or the lust that the saying it arouses.
But have I ever told you why I love it when you talk to me. I confess it is because having a conversation with you is the most exquisite from of foreplay imaginable.
The sound of your voice floats out like an invitation from the classic crooners, I hear “hold me, hold me,.. never, never- let me go.
The wind that that leaves your mouth and brings your words to my ears waft around me and caress my body in ways that tease and promise every imaginable delight.
It’s enchanting power sometimes forces my attention solely upon the movement of your lips. I become oblivious to even their meaning as I watch your luscious lips move to form words.
I begin to fixate on how your full sexy lips caress each word before you allow it to leave them and I imagine them caressing my dick and sucking life into it, as if I were a drowning man, and you were my angel of mercy bring me back from the depths of limp, lifelessness.
I, it rises to pay homage to your.. , and somehow I manage to focus on the meaning of our conversation.
That is until the aroma of your breath with its sweet, warm, bouquet of simmering hot sex in progress, claims me, body and soul.
Is it any wonder why our conversations usually end with us making love and swearing the next time it will be business first and pleasure later?
It’s a worthy, pursuable possibility. Perhaps, that is why the telephone and written forms of conversation were invented.
Can you now understand why I refuse to ichat with you? It would be cruelty beyond the imagination!!!
Ym
July 31st, 2011 at 10:01 pm
Michelle, I loved your article on the Fadang. As usual you hold Guam close to your heart. I would love to invite you to our lovely island to show you how it returns your concern.
And for those of you who look to me on this blog for news. The news is – The Governor declares Guam Breastfeeding Week.
Guam – This week has been declared Guam Breastfeeding Week. This coincides with the worldwide celebration. Registered nurse and lactation consultant Barbara Mafnas says while bottle feeding is adequate, the breast is the best.
She told KUAM News, “Hands down, breastfeeding is the best because the body produces milk that is designed for the babies so of course there is no pre-preparation, no special packaging, it’s ready on demand when the baby wants it the mom makes it.”
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So get out there mom and feed those babies.
Hafa Adai
Anna
August 20th, 2011 at 8:19 pm
game news…
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