9. Heart attack symptoms in women
We have previously mentioned a few symptoms that women usually report, but it is essential to highlight the difference between heart attack symptoms in men and women. Both of them experience chest discomfort or chest pain as the most common symptom, but women are likely to report other symptoms that are usually misleading, especially in the event of not experiencing chest pain.
For example, a woman may wake up in the middle of the night with dull and uncomfortable neck pain and a cold sweat. She may think it is caused by menopause and sleeping in an awkward position, so she stands up to have a sip of water. She suddenly feels dizzy after waking up and starts feeling tired after taking a few steps. A heart attack would be probably the least thing that comes to her mind, but she’s experiencing 4 different warning symptoms at the same time.
Similar to this example, many women who experience these types of symptoms do not seek for medical health, and sometimes a heart attack may even go unnoticed. 1 out of 10 women do not experience chest symptoms during a heart attack, so you need to take the rest of the symptoms seriously as well.
Even if you don’t feel severe chest pain, it is important to seek for medical health right away because, after this cardiovascular event, the cardiac tissue undergoes cell death and the affected tissue will not go back to normal. The function of the heart becomes affected, and the next episode might be life-threatening.
