12 Warning Signs easily over-looked

If you have experienced these symptoms, either while driving, during your sleep or even while walking, please check your cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar levels immediately. You may have just experienced your first mild stroke or heart attack and have just damaged some brain cells and heart muscles.

1. Numbness, weakness, pain or paralysis of the face, shoulder, jaw, arm or leg, typically on one side of the body

2. Vision problems in one or both eyes, dimness, blurring, double vision or loss of vision

3. Confusion, trouble speaking or understanding

4. Trouble walking, loss of balance or coordination

5. Severe headache

6. Angina: Chest pain or discomfort in the center of the chest; also described as a heaviness, tightness, pressure, aching, burning, numbness, fullness or squeezing feeling that lasts for more than a few minutes or goes away and comes back.

7. Difficulty breathing, shortness of breath

8. Sweating or “cold sweat”

9. Fullness, indigestion, or choking feeling (may feel like “heartburn”) . May confuse with gastric pains too.

10. Nausea or vomiting

11. Light-headedness, dizziness

12. Extreme weakness or anxiety Rapid or irregular heart beats

Do your cholesterol test today, because you can prevent your first and most times fatal heart attack and stroke.