What does having a heart attack feel like?
What does having a heart attack feel like?
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0 -> what does a heart attack feel like it's
2.879 -> often not what you imagine there seems
5.04 -> to be this sort of persistent myth out
6.6 -> there that if it's not sharp it can't be
8.309 -> your heart and that's wrong yeah
11.099 -> Hollywood has given us a clearer picture
12.99 -> of what a heart attack
13.95 -> looks like someone clutching their chest
15.75 -> and crashing to the ground yeah but in
18.15 -> real life the signs can be far more
20.22 -> subtle and confusing dr. Frank McGeorge
22.56 -> joins us with an eye-opening look at the
24.539 -> symptoms everybody needs to know what
27.689 -> does a heart attack feel like three
30.179 -> survivors with three very different sets
32.369 -> of symptoms would you recognize the
34.29 -> signs in time to save your life
36.42 -> scruciating pain my upper back
40.079 -> I had pain down my arms into my hands I
44.43 -> felt lightheaded little nauseous and
49.219 -> something was definitely not right I was
51.48 -> I told my wife I had heartburn mowing
54.39 -> the lawn I wouldn't get winded and then
57.059 -> the weirdest thing is my teeth would
58.649 -> hurt that's kind of like okay my teeth
61.379 -> hurt that might tell some made my teeth
63.27 -> hurt three survivors three very
65.489 -> different sets of symptoms
66.84 -> Keith Frost and Ann Arbor noticed his
69 -> warning signs months before he went into
71.25 -> cardiac arrest leaving a Michigan
72.81 -> football game I never had the elephant
74.85 -> on the chest feeling I never had the
76.56 -> heart palpitations I never had any of
79.049 -> the other things
80.04 -> Greg Meredith Brighton felt his
81.93 -> unexplained heartburn the day before his
84.9 -> heart stopped it was likely signaling me
87.75 -> to say now's the time to go kortnee
90.75 -> Alexander of Saline had just finished a
93.06 -> day of skiing when her symptoms struck
95.13 -> out of the blue had no risk factors no
98.009 -> family history of anything
100.439 -> especially heart disease sometimes it's
102.689 -> difficult for even physicians to figure
104.369 -> out what's going on in those first few
106.049 -> minutes dr. Brad you ran at the
107.88 -> University of Michigan says it's common
109.59 -> for patients to miss or dismiss the red
112.5 -> flags there seems to be this sort of
114.63 -> persistent myth out there that if it's
116.34 -> not sharp it can't be your heart and
117.869 -> that's wrong I've had an EKG in my hand
120.599 -> and clearly showed that person was
121.74 -> having a heart attack
122.67 -> and as I try to explain that to the
124.619 -> patient they said no no I'm not having
126.179 -> any chest pain there's just as pressure
127.53 -> here and in fact if you look at how most
129.45 -> people experience heart pain it's
131.879 -> actually a heavy pressure in the chest
134.269 -> with a with a squeezing sensation maybe
137.22 -> radiating to the shoulder the jaw the
138.66 -> back associated with some shortness of
140.79 -> breath nausea being sweaty those are the
143.37 -> classic symptoms women in people with
145.319 -> diabetes are more likely to experience
147.12 -> different or more subtle symptoms and
149.489 -> while some heart problems are sudden
151.65 -> often there were warning signs if you
155.069 -> look at people who've had heart attacks
156.599 -> often you can go back and ask them and
158.4 -> in the days weeks and months preceding
160.019 -> that they'll talk about well normally
162.75 -> when I walk up the flight of stairs at
164.129 -> work I can do that with no problem and
165.66 -> now I'm getting this tightness or this
167.73 -> discomfort waiting until symptoms are
169.65 -> severe can result in a deadly delay if
172.26 -> you're actually having heart muscle
173.639 -> damage the the longer that you wait and
176.13 -> let that heart muscle die the worse off
178.769 -> you will be as an emergency physician
180.389 -> I'd rather see somebody at the beginning
181.98 -> of the problem rather than at the end
183.239 -> don't sit at home trying to self
185.16 -> diagnose don't wait Keith Gregg and
187.62 -> Gordon are grateful they survived they
189.72 -> hope others learn from their stories
192.51 -> make sure you see your doctor because
195.139 -> they're the ones there's a
197.09 -> the best thing to do is to go get this
199.099 -> checked out don't do what I did and say
201.8 -> well I'm sure it's gonna be fine
203.8 -> someone in the u.s. suffers a heart
205.79 -> attack every 43 seconds would you know
208.91 -> what to do if it was you tomorrow at
211.04 -> 5:00 I'll show you the four steps that
212.93 -> could help save your life
214.81 -> and that's definitely something
216.62 -> everybody needs to see tomorrow at 5:00
218.33 -> yeah one of the experts as we heard them
220.58 -> one of them say as a general rule if
222.2 -> you're sitting at home googling what are
223.91 -> the symptoms of a heart attack well
225.56 -> there's a fair chance you're having a
226.819 -> heart attack and should be calling 911
228.14 -> steps it's better to be safe than sorry
230.209 -> for sure we want to turn this into a
232.25 -> learning experience for everybody if you
234.2 -> or a loved one our heart attack survivor
236.569 -> go to our Facebook page or the good
238.099 -> health page and share your story because
239.84 -> we want to know what does a heart attack
241.37 -> feel like so you can help others to
243.319 -> recognize that you know what's happening
245.84 -> faster so people don't know may not be
247.549 -> what we expect and tomorrow at 12:15 dr.
250.489 -> Brad UN who we just heard in that story
252.29 -> from U of M will be joining us for a
254.03 -> special Facebook live he'll be answering
256.28 -> questions and sharing some of the
257.87 -> lessons learned from your stories it's
260.539 -> not always the elephant on the chest
261.919 -> like what you said that's what I'd
263.27 -> always heard it was yeah
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INkF_JjPfws