Heart attack

[Rickstarr]

Hi all,New to this I found it last night, comforting to know we are all out there and things in common, I had a heart attack on good Friday, had 3 stents, felt no different before of after my HA in fact I feel better now, on the usual meds and doing my rehab. The scary thing was not knowing I had a HA only with sight pain like idejestion, I'm a HGV driver as well but still recovering well and waiting for my treadmill test, just like to thank the NHS for detecting this I had only finished work 2 hours

before, who knows what could have happened

[Zed1063]

Hi Rickstarr

I too had a HA on Good Friday! I just got sweaty with mine then had a back ache! seems so strange when you hear about this acute chest pain etc and then nothing or very little. Glad you are on the mend.

[Rickstarr in reply to Zed1063]

Hi Zed nice to hear from you, hope you are on the mend as well, did you have any stents and were or are still working?

[Zed1063 in reply to Rickstarr]

Hi Yes 2 stents and I am now back at work but my life has change so much! I am much slower than I was and don't do half what I did. Mentally fried!

[Rickstarr in reply to Zed1063]

Hi sorry for the delay in replying, I'm pleased your slowly getting back on track it certainly isn't easy, I'm OK physically but I do get a few mood swings and get a bit more irritable than I was before don't need the stress especially that I'm getting from work , ie me trying to sort all the paperwork and problems myself.

[Lowerfield_no_more]

Join the heart attack club. A club no-one want to join! Its fortunate that your HA didn't happen whilst you were out on the road. Good to hear you haven't felt much difference before and after, I was pretty much the same. Sadly there are many who feel the after effects both physically and emotionally for some time after. And its also good to hear you have already started rehab, although you haven't said whether that's personal or attending a course organised by your local hospital, but either way take the advice online and/or from the cardio health professionals about lifestyle measures for good heart health which covers diet, exercise, body weight management, smoking and alcohol, and together with the medication package, some of which will be for life, you will reduce your future heart health risk. Hope your recovery goes well.

[Hidden]

Welcome to the club no one asks to be a member of but we are a good bunch.

It's great to hear you feel good, keep it up.

Heart attacks are funny buggers, nothing like the movie heart attacks, one thing we all learn.

You seem to be doing good so I will give one piece of advice, make sure you do cardio rehabilitation when offered it.

It's so important, best thing to recover well.

You know the rest.... no smoking, eat healthy, keep beer levels sensible and excercise.

wish you the best

[Rickstarr in reply to Hidden]

Hi nice to hear from you, as you say not a club we like to be in, but the one thing we all have in common is we've had a chance and can learn and live with it, unlike my brother who I lost last September who passed away in his sleep with no chance.

[Hidden in reply to Rickstarr]

So Sorry to hear that, we were lucky and got a second chance, do the best you can with it and honour your brother 🙏

[Qualipop]

I joined for the same reason as you. 3 days of dreadful indigestion then a slight tingling in my arm and neck which was the only thing that prompted me to ring 999. 2 stents next morning. It's a tremendous shock when it comes without warning or any previous problems. This forum has been a godsend especially when I had bad reactions to most of the meds. That will be 6 years ago next month. I'm so grateful it was a warning and not worse.

[DWizza]

Welcome aboard Rickstarr. My membership was through “trapped wind” pain 🤦🏼. 13th July 2023 aged 61. I felt very strange after a yoga class , my wife and I put it down to not having any breakfast , then the pain kicked in, right on the middle of my chest . I really though it was trapped wind, I wanted some lemonade to help me burp 🤦🏼. It got so painful that my wife called 111. I started to get a bit sweaty and nauseous but no other “typical” heart attack symptoms. All good when the paramedics checked me out on ECG, everything fine. However, they really wanted me to to hospital for a blood test but said they couldn’t make me. I thought it was very sensible . Thank the Lord I did and that the doctor did 2 tests (took all day in A& E 🤦🏼🤦🏼13:00-23:15 sitting in the corridor ) first tropinin test came back 74 pretty insignificant for a cardiac event apparently, so he did a second test that came back 402! I ended up with quadruple bypass surgery on 25th July 2023. Rehabbing very well 👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻. Loving my rebirth

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