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Symptoms

Heart Burn or Heart Attack: How can you tell the difference?

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Is that sharp, burning sensation in your chest caused by the pizza you just ate or a sign of something more serious?
How can you tell the difference?
Women’s heart attack symptoms can be difficult to diagnose. My heart attack absolutely started out feeling like heart burn. I’ve experienced both severe heartburn and a heart [...]

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Do You Have Atrial Fibrillation? How Would You Know?

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Mellanie True Hills felt as if her heart was jumping out of her chest.  Patty Borkowski didn’t have any symptoms at all.  How would you know if you have the most common irregular heartbeat, atrial fibrillation?
Atrial Fibrillation causes the upper chambers of the heart to quiver, which can cause the heart to overwork itself and [...]

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What Trips Your Trigger? Managing Your Afib By Understanding Your Triggers

December 11, 2007

Understanding what triggers your atrial fibrillation episodes can help keep them under control. “We are in our infancy in learning what causes and what triggers afib,” explains Mellanie True Hills, founder of the American Foundation for Women’s Health and the atrial fibrillation patient resource StopAfib.org. But paying attention to your body [...]

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Stressed or Stroke? Three questions to ease your mind about your headache

August 27, 2007

Knowing she was at risk for stroke made Patty Borkowski’s daily headaches worrisome. How do you tell a headache brought on by eye strain or an afternoon drop in blood sugar and from a medical emergency?
“At approximately 3:15 every afternoon, I thought I was suffering a stroke.  I’d be at the computer pounding away and [...]

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