Angina pain conundrum

[Manhattan1]

ok.. went for a walk approx 3.5 km today.. very very slight chest discomfort.. honestly was expecting worse! lol.. but sometimes things like using a hairdryer.. changing bedclothes or even walking from one room to another can bring on more severe angina pain... does anyone else experience this anomoly? thanks

[Sunnie2day]

I've done a morning walk, come in feeling great. Then two hours later have angina pain doing what I would consider a nothing - putting books back on the bookshelves, running the vacuum...I've discovered it only happens that way when the humidity is higher than 50% inside the house. I think using my GTN before I walk helps no matter what the humidity is out there but if I go without it, or if the humidity indoors is high, I do have angina pain during the walk or moving around the house.

I highly recommend having hygrometers in every room of the house - mine are 'cheap' digital ones (Amazon) and record the room temperature and the percentage of humidity. I have one in the living room that also tells time and date.

If you have one (or more) be sure to check the room humidity level when you're having angina pain 'just' puttering around the house.

[Manhattan1 in reply to Sunnie2day]

thanks for that.. but i don’t think humidity is the problem for me..think the angina likes to lull me into a feeling of false security... then WHAM.. gotcha!! lol

[Sunnie2day in reply to Manhattan1]

I'd 'lol' about that but it does seem certain types of angina have 'a mind of their own'.

[Milkfairy Heart Star]

My Vasospastic angina pain often hits out of no where no rhyme or reason.

Yet last year I manage to walk up Haystacks in the Lake District......go figure ?

[Manhattan1]

Cardiologist is due to call me on Friday.. will ask him if there’s any rhyme or reason why this sometimes happens. have a feeling he’ll probably say .. there isn’t really an answer to that question lol

[AndyM69]

Hi there

It might not be the case but my experience of angina was that it was far more likely to occur if I had eaten a meal and then started to do something energetic, mopping a floor, walking upstairs etc.

Doing those things having not had a meal didn’t cause my angina to occur.

Hope you get an answer from your cardiologist.

[Ninjanoo]

Hi Manhattan1,

Mine can trigger like yours changing the bed sheets, hoovering, making the evening meal (have to start making it about 2 or 3pm so it'll b done in time to allow for rests in between!). Washing up usually has to be done in two halves. Although hoovered the other day nothing happened until I went to bed and chest went really tight but soon went after taking spray whereas this usually happens straightaway.

I can walk for about 15 minutes some days a bit longer but that's on the flat and usually have to stop and take a breather and a couple of sprays GTN. Throw in an incline then I'm usually messed up for rest of day. Before all this started in March this year was walking for an hour sometimes an hour and a half twice a day as we have a dog. And I'm definitely not walking at my usual speed - nowhere near!

GP told me to stop taking the Tildiem tablets yesterday as I'm having some sort of reaction to them so just relying on the Chemydur which I already know isn't enough . So back to the drawing board!

It is so up and down you just don't know how you're going to be from one day to the next. Guess that's why GP told me take things day by day!

Hope my ramble made some kind of sense!

Take care 😊

[Manhattan1 in reply to Ninjanoo]

makes a lot of sense!... inclines are my worse nightmare

[Ninjanoo]

Yup where I live I have two steep roads either side (live in a cul-de-sac) one is the slightly lesser of the two evils so if I have to I walk up that one but because this brings on a severe attack (i.e. takes me a good day to recover) my poor husband actually drives me somewhere where we can take the dog that's flat for me to walk!

[Manhattan1 in reply to Ninjanoo]

we’ve either got a steep hill or 41 steps lol

[Dempo]

I think my angina is sometimes stress related, and I wonder if, on occasions when doing a seemingly mindless task like hoovering, you actually are allowing your brain to dwell on something that is worrying or bothering you, which raises stress levels and brings on the attack? I can guarantee that I will have an attack just before Christmas, as my stress levels go sky high then, even if I am just writing out cards!

[Manhattan1 in reply to Dempo]

sometimes i can hoover without a problem .. other times it’s a case of... oh oh here we go again lol

[Ninjanoo in reply to Manhattan1]

....or maybe we're all allergic to hoovering!!

[Milkfairy Heart Star in reply to Ninjanoo]

I am definitely allergic to hoovering 😂

[Manhattan1]

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