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How do you tell a stroke apart from heart attack?

Symptoms?

These are 2 very different issues with their own sets of signs and symptoms.

Stroke or CVA
- Blurred Vision
- 1 sided weakness and drooping (unable to hold arm up for more than 3 secs)
- Slurred Speech
- facial drooping
- Unable to answer basic questions (unable to tell you if you're hold a pen)
- Inappropriate words when speaking


Heart Attack or Myocardial Infarction (MI)
- Midline substernal crushing chest pain
- Radiating into neck, left arm and/or back
- Shortness of Breath
- feeling of "dread" (Person will feel like they are dying)
- Severe Nausea sometimes with vomtting.

Although those are the "text book" symptoms for an MI many will not present like this.
Women very rarely have the "normal" symptoms of an MI if any symptoms at all.

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