A nurse has gone public to issue a warning to other women after she suffered a heart attack and mistakenly thought it was simply a “muscle strain.”

A Twitter user named @gwheezie took to Twitter to tell her story earlier this week.

“I want to warn women our heart attacks feel different,” she began. “Last Sunday I had a heart attack. … I’m alive because I called 911. I never had chest pain. It wasn’t what you read in pamphlets. I had it off & on for weeks.”

I want to warn women our heart attacks feel different. Last Sunday I had a heart attack. I had a 95% block in my left anterior descending artery. I’m alive because I called 911. I never had chest pain. It wasn’t what you read in pamphlets. I had it off & on for weeks.

— gwheezie (@geewheezie) December 9, 2018

“The pain ran across my upper back, shoulder blades & equally down both arms,” she continued. “It felt like burning & aching. I actually thought it was muscle strain. It wasn’t until I broke into drenching sweat & started vomiting that I called 911.”

She described herself as an “older woman,” choosing not to reveal her age. She was helping a friend clean out her barn when she first started to feel what she thought was muscle pain, so she took a Motrin. When the pain got worse, she went to the emergency room and was treated with four stents, small tubes used to prop open blocked arteries, and later discharged.

“I was lucky, I had no idea what hospital to go to, the female medics who picked me up took me to a hospital that does cardiac caths, i had 4 stents placed an hour after I got to the er,” she concluded. “That was Sunday. I was discharged thurs & at my daughters house & back to tweeting.”

Her posts have since gone viral, as others have had the same experience.

“Same thing happened to me,” one social media user wrote. “Symptoms felt like constant indigestion, for weeks. I went into urgent care asking for a Tums the size of a Volkswagen but they wisely did an EKG and sent me to ER.”

“I’m a healthy 31 year old, mom of 3. Had a heart attack just over a year ago,” added another. “I didn’t go to the hospital for over a week — I had such bad upper back pain, also thought it was a pulled muscle. I went to my primary care doctor 4 times before she finally sent me to the ER.”

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