In this video we'll go through 7 important heart attack signs and symptoms to never ignore. As picking up these early signs of a heart attack can help save a life. Often if you ask people chest pain comes up as the top symptoms but it may also surprise you that some people may never get chest pain! Especially if they are diabetic and sometimes women tend to have slightly more vague symptoms.

When we have a heart attack (myocardial infarction), the blood supply to our heart suddenly stops. This could be down to a number of reasons. But what this causes is damage to the heart muscle. It is vital to get medical help urgently and to look out for signs and symptoms so that precious time is not wasted. Time is muscle, the more time is wasted, the more muscle in the heart can die!

Here are the 7 signs and symptoms of a heart attack that you should never ignore.
1) Chest Pains chest pain or discomfort is the most common symptom people get.
It can be described as “feels like pressure”, squeezing or heaviness in the chest. It can also feel like indigestion or a burning sensation.

2) Nausea and vomiting This is caused by a phenomenon called cardiogenic nausea or vomiting,

3) Sweatiness/clamminess when your heart muscle is dying, it may not be able to pump blood adequately. Remember we are alive and walking because we have constant blood pressure supplying our body and brain. If this blood pressure suddenly drops not enough blood can get to the brain and we can feel lightheaded and dizzy.

4) Dizziness or feeling lightheaded Some theories suggest it could be down to the stimulation of part of your nervous system, called you sympathetic nervous system. This is your fight or flight response.

5) Pains in other areas (arms/jaw/neck/back) during a myocardial infarction it can feel as if the pain is spreading from your chest to your arms (usually the left arm, but it can affect both arms), jaw, neck, back and tummy.

6) Shortness of breath Your heart pumps blood so it can circulate to your tissues as well as get oxygen from your lungs. If your heart can’t pump blood well (as is the case with a heart attack), you can feel short of breath.

7) Overwhelming feeling of anxiety/panic Physically a panic attack and a heart attack may be very similar.
0:00 Intro
0:17 Is a heart attack the same as a cardiac arrest?
2:06 Warning sign 1 for heart attack chest pain
2:30 Women heart attack signs and symptoms
2:40 Warning sign 2 for heart attack nausea
3:42 Warning symptom 3 heart attack dizziness/lightheaded/giddy
4:30 Sweatiness another common heart attack symptom
6:27 Heart attack pain shoulder/arm/jaw/neck explained
6:46 Shortness of breath sign of heart attack
7:15 Difference between panic attack and heart attack

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