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I had a heart attack two years ago. I spent a few weeks with some weird pain in my forearms (both of them) before realizing it was a heart attack. Never felt an

• jdhn 10y ago
  How did you realize it was a heart attack? Did you go to the doctor and have them check it out?
  • magoghm 10y ago
    At first I looked for information on the Internet about the pain in my arms an saw that, among many other things, it could be a heart problem. A couple of weeks later I started feeling pain on the left side of my jaw (much like a toothache) at the same time I felt the pain in my forearms. Searching again on the Internet I saw that now it was quite probably a heart problem. About 48 hours after that, the pain in my arms wasn't letting me concentrate on anything (it wasn't stronger, but it felt different, it made me feel that something was really wrong with my body), that's when I went to the emergency room at the hospital.
    • martyvis 10y ago
      My wife asks if you are male or female? (I understand if you'd rather not say.We have read that female often have this type of gradual heart attack - my mother-in-law being one)
      • magoghm 10y ago
        I am male.