Re: [c_p]Coleen's re: post.. Left sided pain***Women

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Hi Peggy,

 

Thank you for posting this.  I am a 49yo female.  My doctor ordered an Ultrsound

echocardiogram done on my heart about a week ago and my doctor only wrote me a

letter in the mail.  I called my doctor's office last Tuesday as I thought I

would get a phone call at least.  he receptionist told me my test results were

" normal " .  When I went to get my mail it was written that my test results

were  " basically normal " . 

When that is pertaining to your heart or any other vital organ " basically

normal " doesn't do it for me.  Sorry.  I had 3 pieces of paper to read of what

abnormalities they found in my heart.  It was Sy Gallop, i think it is S4 Gallop

also now.  My doctor had noticed a third heart beat, I think that was why she

ordered the tests.  I have shortness of breath more too.  Maybe it is because a

little weight gain and out of shape?  I am not a couch potato, darn it.  This

chronic pain sure will put me down though, I hate it.

 

On the test results of which I get a little emotional reading so I do it when I

am ready.  I believe it said a part of my heart had gotten bigger because the

exit had gotten smaller.  

 

On the form my doctor didn't even ask to see me and go over the test results.  I

know I just saw her lately and it all goes through the Oregon state insurance,

OHP PLUS (DOCS) so I get less care.  Sigh.  I don't like messing with my heart

though.  

 

I have cut back on some things I was eating.  I used to eat like a bird, now I

just eat like a bigger bird, lol.

 

Thanks again Peggy,  I will look these websites up.

 

Coleen 

>Peggy wrote:

Cardiac symptoms present so differently in women.  Some sites that are helpful

are:

1.http://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/features/her-guide-to-a-heart-attack

call " female heart attack symptoms; " a feeling of indigestion and extreme

fatigue. Later, she had nausea, vomiting and fainting.

   

But she never had chest pain-a " typical " male heart attack sign.  ALSO Pressure,

fullness or a squeezing pain in the center of the chest, which may spread to the

neck, shoulder or jaw;Chest discomfort with light-headedness, fainting,

sweating, nausea or shortness of breath;    shortness of breath (57.9%)weakness

(54.8%)unusual fatigue (42.9%)

   

Women also had these symptoms: Nausea, Dizziness, Lower chest discomfort, Upper

abdominal pressure or discomfort that may feel like indigestion, Back pain

 

Some of these symptoms show up as early as 6 weeks prior to an attack.

2.http://www.womenshealth.gov/heart-health-stroke/signs-of-a-heart-attack/

So hopefully you will get your pain checked out as soon as possible, better safe

than sorry.