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What does a person feel during a heart attack?
Chest pain or discomfort. Most heart attacks involve discomfort in the center or left side of the chest that lasts for more than a few minutes or that goes away and comes back. The discomfort can feel like uncomfortable pressure, squeezing, fullness, or pain.
How noticeable is a heart attack?
Signs of a heart attack include: – Uncomfortable pressure, squeezing, fullness or pain in the center of the chest that comes on quickly and won’t go away with rest. – Pain or discomfort in one or both arms, the back, neck, jaw or stomach. – Shortness of breath with or without chest discomfort.
Are you aware during a heart attack?
People experiencing a heart attack often stay conscious and awake. In an acute heart attack, there’s usually one major blockage that some blood can flow around. The circulation is not as strong, but blood still reaches vital organs and the brain, so the person stays awake.
Do you stop breathing during heart attack?
Someone who’s having a cardiac arrest will suddenly lose consciousness and will stop breathing – or stop breathing normally. Unless immediately treated by cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), this always leads to death within minutes. A person having a heart attack is at high risk of experiencing a cardiac arrest.
How to recognize when someone is having a heart attack?
Extreme fatigue. In the days or even weeks before a heart attack,more than 70\% of women experience debilitating,flulike exhaustion.
What do I do if I have a heart attack?
At the first signs of a heart attack, call for emergency treatment (usually 911). The best time to treat a heart attack is within one to two hours of the first onset of symptoms. Waiting longer increases the damage to your heart and reduces your chance of survival.
How many days before a heart attack?
How long heart attack symptoms last varies from person to person. Impending symptoms may be present for days or even weeks before the actual heart attack. In general, heart attack symptoms last at least fifteen to twenty minutes and go on for several hours.
How can a blood test detect a heart attack?
If doctors suspect you have had a suspected heart attack, a sample of your blood will be taken so it can be tested for these heart proteins (known as cardiac markers). The most common protein measurement is called cardiac troponin. Your troponin level will be measured through a series of blood tests done over the course of a few days.