Re: I did not have the elephant.

Reba055 · ‎06-23-2014

I'm glad you are ok! They have been running ads about the symptoms in women a lot this month I told my GI doc, I'm doomed I have thie every day so guess I will ever know.

I hope your follow up is good.

newberry · ‎03-10-2010

@Noel7 wrote:
George Carlin's only heart attack symptom was pain in his jaw. Luckily he knew that to be a heart attack symptom.

Did your cardio take a blood test and give you meds? I hope you are OK!

No he did not do a blood test because the initial ecg was five days previous. He was on vacation. I don't think the elevated enzimes stay there that long. My GP did tell me that if I felt even the slightest twings to get to the ER. I had had undetermined heart pain the Thanksgiving before last and had all of the tests run then and it did not show heart attack then on the ecg. My cholosteral is very good as is all the other blood work. I had that done just a couple of months ago.

chickenbutt · ‎03-09-2010

That's trippy! I didn't know about the jaw pain thing (or actually most of the ones in Noel's post, which I experience regularly...oops!).

Every now and then I will suddenly, out of nowhere, have the most intense jaw pain and I just figure maybe I was clenching and didn't realize it. It never lasts all that long, though.

Anyway, best wishes that everything is ok!

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@newberry wrote:
@Noel7 wrote:
George Carlin's only heart attack symptom was pain in his jaw. Luckily he knew that to be a heart attack symptom.

Did your cardio take a blood test and give you meds? I hope you are OK!
No he did not do a blood test because the initial ecg was five days previous. He was on vacation. I don't think the elevated enzimes stay there that long. My GP did tell me that if I felt even the slightest twings to get to the ER. I had had undetermined heart pain the Thanksgiving before last and had all of the tests run then and it did not show heart attack then on the ecg. My cholosteral is very good as is all the other blood work. I had that done just a couple of months ago.

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I'm glad to hear you're doing OK @newberry , I wish you the very best!

SilleeMee · ‎05-22-2016

I take a low-dose aspirin daily as per doctor's orders. I also get annual echocardiograms because of my heart valve being affected by my scleroderma. Even with this attention to my heart it still won't guarantee I won't have an attack. If I suffer an attack, it will most likely end in death because my valve will simply fail. There will be no warning and there's nothing that I can do to prevent it. Hope it never happens.

Pqfan · ‎03-09-2010

@newberry Thank you for the wake up call for all of us to take care of ourselves.

I hope you are feeling better.

Plaid Pants2 · ‎03-14-2015

@SilleeMee wrote:
I take a low-dose aspirin daily as per doctor's orders. I also get annual echocardiograms because of my heart valve being affected by my scleroderma. Even with this attention to my heart it still won't guarantee I won't have an attack. If I suffer an attack, it will most likely end in death because my valve will simply fail. There will be no warning and there's nothing that I can do to prevent it. Hope it never happens.

How scary!

Irshgrl31201 · ‎03-18-2010

Wow @newberry this is great advice and I am so glad you shared it. I have heard of jaw pain being associated with this before. I am SO GLAD you told your dr this because i think a lot of the time we as women tend to take care of ourselves last. If we don't take care of ourselves we can't take care of anyone else. So glad you shared this because I think if someone here reads this it could really help them.

Women and men have different symptoms and sometimes will over look seemingly innocent symptoms.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
JFK

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@chickenbutt wrote:
That's trippy! I didn't know about the jaw pain thing (or actually most of the ones in Noel's post, which I experience regularly...oops!).

Every now and then I will suddenly, out of nowhere, have the most intense jaw pain and I just figure maybe I was clenching and didn't realize it. It never lasts all that long, though.

Anyway, best wishes that everything is ok!

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@chickenbutt

You know, it really is true that as women, many or most of us push through and just keep going.

My first attack, I thought it was heartburn, really bad heartburn. It took awhile until I keeled over. The second time it was my ribs that hurt on one side and I thought it was costocondritis. I really got a talking to from the nurse, I thought she was going to slap my hand with a ruler, lol.

Go, get a checkup, get a scan maybe.