Heart attack I didn’t know about?

[Jako999]

I’ve just come back from seeing my cardiologist who said I’m doing pretty well following my quadruple CABG 6 weeks ago but wants me to do some stress tests because I’ve used my gtn a couple of time since.

The big thing is now we had time to chat as my surgery was pushed through really quickly following my angiogram he informed me that I’d had a mild heart attack some weeks prior to my angiogram, another shock to deal with but I think I know when. We were in America prior to the angiogram and at an all you can eat buffet I thought I’d got bad indigestion from overdoing the food. It all makes a bit more sense now they all said I was lucky to be alive and it was a miracle I made it back from American. My body really did want to kill me but just another thing now in my head.

The main thing at this point is I’m pretty much on track😁👍

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Good to hear your on track that’s most important, your body may have wanted to kill you but other parts wanted to live. The head maybe overruled your heart! 😊

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Dear Jako999

Its odd isn’t it and they are called Silent Heart Attacks so my Cardiologist informs me.

I was in a similar situation and after all the tests that they needed to do { we know them all } I sat waiting for my turn in the Cardiologists waiting area.

A complete stranger came up to me and ask if I was in fact who I was, when I said yes he seemed a little flustered and asked me to excuse him and off he went.

A nurse told me that he was the cardiologist that I was to see, long story short when I got into his room he said that after seeing the damage that had been done by my heart attack that he thought that I was on the ward or at the very lest in a wheelchair!

I promise you that I had no recollection of anything other than the shortness of breath.

It is a story that is repeated often on here and a lot of heart attacks are not like there portrayed in early films that I was brought up on.

Glad that your here to tell us your story

Take care.

[Lizy76]

Hello! I also was told I had a heart attack which I didn't know about although they said it was very mild, so mild it didn't show on my angiogram but did show on my heart MRI. Strange . I also think I might know when it was, back in February this year I had not long had dinner but rushed upstairs for something. That's when I got this really strange feeling in my throat and soon after a pain in my left arm. At no point did I get a chest pains though so I put it down to indigestion and went up to bed! The next day I still had an ache iny arm but went to work as usual! I wasn't sure the arm pain would of lasted so long but they have since said it's quite likely that's when my heart attack was. So there we are! X

[Tugger1]

Wow just 6 weeks ago that makes it all still very fresh and new but you have come through and survived that is the main thing. Just getting used to a raft of forever drugs from now on and live life to the full, take the whole thing as a warning and cherish every day you wake up from now on. I went through the exact same thing Jan 20 out of the blue imploded my world and changed me for ever, 2 at the time unknown heart attacks 3rd one would have got me within months. One of the main signs is indigestion / heartburn living on Gaviscon or Rennies. Well I am here to tell you that exercise of any form is a winner winner chicken dinner - the heart is a muscle and needs exercising like anything else. I took part in the 2 x 3mnth rehab schemes offered by the hospital and then continued up to this day at my local gym. I do cardio and resistance machines and free weights 2 hrs a day 6 days a week and 1hr Pilates on a Sunday morning. I found the best machines for time and effort efficiency are the erg rower & ellyptical cross trainer but started on the bike and treadmill. Not everyone likes the gym I get that, but a nice long 1hr walk at a brisk pace is good also 8,000steps in one go is the target goal doing the same steps just throughout the day does not count at all my physio used to tell me.

[Qualipop]

The only symptom I had was two days of terrible indigestion before a tingling pain started up my neck and down my arm. That was when I rang 999. Eventhe nurse who triaged me thought it w as not a heart attack and left me on the corridor forhours.

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Hello

I wonder how many might be walking about having had a mild heart attack and not realising ?

I to am one that when I had what I thought was my first heart attack was told I had a mild one at some time before

I think I know when it could have been when I had double pneumonia I was in so much pain in my arms , chest and back I would have never known but I cannot prove that either

But we are the lucky ones and you are right you are on track now x

[Jako999]

You are so right, it makes me wonder if I’ve had even more over the years? When you think about that bit of indigestion, shortness of breath or a bit of chest or arm pain because the bag was to heavy, or was it.