how can you tell if you are having a mild heart attack?
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Common heart attack signs and symptoms include: Pressure, tightness, pain, or a squeezing or aching sensation in your chest or arms that may spread to your neck, jaw or back. Nausea, indigestion, heartburn or abdominal pain. Shortness of breath.
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If you experience any of the following symptoms, call 911 or ask someone to call 911 immediately. These could be signs of a heart attack: Discomfort in the chest, especially the center, that lasts more than a few minutes or comes and goes. The discomfort may feel like heaviness, fullness, squeezing, or pain.
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['Chest Pain, Pressure, Fullness, or Discomfort. ... ', 'Discomfort in other areas of your body. ... ', 'Difficulty breathing and dizziness. ... ', 'Nausea and cold sweats. ... ', "Know The Signs — And Don't Ignore Them."]
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['Shortness of breath.', 'Fatigue.', 'Chest pain, often after exercising.', 'Sensation of rapid, fluttering or pounding heartbeats (palpitations)', 'Dizziness or fainting.']
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However, pain or discomfort in the arms, back, neck or jaw can also be a sign — and so can shortness of breath, nausea or light-headedness. If you experience one or more of these warning signs, CALL 911 immediately, even if you're not sure it's a heart attack.
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['Fatigue and weakness, especially when you increase your activity level.', 'Shortness of breath with exercise or when you lie down.', 'Swollen ankles and feet.', 'Chest pain (angina), discomfort or tightness, often increasing during exercise.', 'Lightheadedness or fainting.', 'Irregular pulse (arrhythmia)', 'Heart murmur.']
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Chest pain. Most chest pain isn't a sign of anything serious but you should get medical advice just in case. Get immediate medical help if you think you're having a heart attack.
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A heart attack does not always have obvious symptoms, such as pain in your chest, shortness of breath and cold sweats. In fact, a heart attack can actually happen without a person knowing it. It is called a silent heart attack, or medically referred to as silent ischemia (lack of oxygen) to the heart muscle.
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Timing/duration: Heart attack pain can be intermittent or continuous. Heart attack symptoms can last for a few minutes to a few hours. If you have had chest pain continuously for several days, weeks or months, then it is unlikely to be caused by a heart attack.
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Heart attack symptoms (shortness of breath, sharp chest pain, arm pain, etc.) usually start gradually, with the intensity of those symptoms coming and going. Provocation. Pain from symptoms is “provoked,” or gets worse, with physical activity or exercise.
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Someone having a heart attack may experience any or all of the following: Uncomfortable pressure, fullness or squeezing pain in the center of the chest. Discomfort or pain spreading beyond the chest to the shoulders, back, neck, jaw, teeth, or one or both arms, or occasionally upper abdomen. Shortness of breath.
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['slow or irregular heartbeats, or palpitations.', 'shortness of breath.', 'lightheadedness and fainting.', 'pain or discomfort in the chest.', 'difficulty in doing exercise, due to the lack of blood being pumped around the body.']
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Chest discomfort. Most heart attacks involve discomfort in the center of the chest that lasts more than a few minutes – or it may go away and then return. It can feel like uncomfortable pressure, squeezing, fullness or pain.
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Your doctor may use an electrocardiogram to determine or detect: Abnormal heart rhythm (arrhythmias) If blocked or narrowed arteries in your heart (coronary artery disease) are causing chest pain or a heart attack. Whether you have had a previous heart attack.
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Mild heart attack symptoms might only occur for two to five minutes then stop with rest. A full heart attack with complete blockage lasts much longer, sometimes for more than 20 minutes.
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Tests to diagnose a heart attack include: Electrocardiogram (ECG). This first test done to diagnose a heart attack records electrical signals as they travel through your heart.
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Typical heart attack signs and symptoms include: Pressure, tightness, pain, or a squeezing or aching sensation in your chest or arms that may spread to your neck, jaw or back. Nausea, indigestion, heartburn or abdominal pain.