Surprise triple!

[outofwhack]

Hi I'm Andrew, 54, in October 2019 I had what I thought was heartburn over 3 evenings, dialled 111 and came out of hospital with a triple bypass!

[Hidden]

Must have been bad heartburn for you to call 111

[outofwhack in reply to Hidden]

Not really. Just couldn't shift it with Gaviscon and rang 111 to make my mother happy! They asked me if I had chest pain on scale 1 to 10 and I said 1 and they said an ambulance is on the way!

[Manhattan1 in reply to outofwhack]

your pain was on a scale of 1? was the pain constant or did it come and go?

[outofwhack in reply to Manhattan1]

On a scale of 1-10 where 10 is the worst pain imaginable I said it was 1 or 2. It felt like heartburn after all. It did come and go over 3 days. Im left wondering if it was really a heart attack or angina but my records show I had an NSTEMI HA. Afaik only the troponin level (180?) showed it as a HA.

[Manhattan1 in reply to outofwhack]

wow!.. i suppose that’s a lesson to all of us.. never ignore chest pain.. which i’m sure a lot of us do..i think a lot of that has to do with being reticent to call 111 or 999 because we think we’re wasting their time.. i’m so glad you’re all fixed up👍

[Hidden]

Just as well they found out you needed the triple B.

[HectorsDad]

Yup, very similar to me. My wife was away, but bullied me to A&E when she got back. Turns out I drove 32 miles in mid heart attack, at 1 Rennie per mile 😀

[Shoshov in reply to HectorsDad]

yeah i was the same. not quiet as bad as you only about 12 miles. someone was watching over us❤️

[Gail1967]

I ate a burger trying to shift what I thought was heart burn last April- it didn’t work but the quadruple bypass a few days later did!!!!

[Shoshov in reply to Gail1967]

well done gail ❤️

[Janma123]

It’s nearly 2 years since hubby was “not quite right”. He kept feeling as if he had a flu - like infection - a bit chesty, no energy, no appetite. We were going to move a tractor about 30 miles and he decided he didn’t feel up to it. To cut a long story short, saw the GP, sent to hospital for a blood test and came home a month later having had a quadruple bypass!

Doing OK now!