could it have been a heart attack?

[hazmatrec]

hi there!

I have vasospastic angina, raynauds, slightly high bad cholesterol (darn the cheese! ), I get smacked with vasovagal syncope on occasion, and then also inflammatory arthritis and cauda equina syndrome and some altered body sensation, bile salt malabsorption and neuropathic digestion problems, and fatigue. lots of day to day management. so tired. 🎻

about three weeks ago, tho, it started to feel like I couldn't manage. so many dizzy. usually it's my lower gut that's bad but my upper gut was hurting. no appetite, very thirsty, but full after just a few sips. eh, I have tinnitus too, and it was doing the pulsatile beat. and I couldn't manage the fatigue. I was falling asleep in the middle of conversation. I stopped trying to email because I wrote some very strange things, and didn't want to be sending weird stuff.

I muscles through a bit, but mentioned to my blood monitoring nurse (I get some blood tests every three months because of a medicine I'm on) that is been having a rough time and fevers up and down since that really rough three/ four days. she noted it down. my blood were kind of okay, except my c-reactive protein, they test to measure for inflammation or infection, was up at 39. not running rampant, but the range for me is up to ten, and I'd had a three three months ago.

ack, this is taking long. basically I read about silent heart attacks and wondered if anyone has had one that didn't get checked at the time, and if so, how did you find out about it. what I'd been told to look out for as the child of a father who died of a pain related heart attack and a mother who died of metastatic cancer is uncertain test results and fatigue, and apparently crp being mildly high is something that happens after a heart attack?

right now with the stress and the lack of sleep, I'm both exhausted and insomniacal.

any knowledge from folks about "silent" attacks and or the relation of the crp test, would be greatly apreciado!

kind regards

cath tyler

[fishonabike]

A "silent heart attack" is one without symptoms, you clearly had unusual symptoms - as you have vasospastic angina and other conditions I feel you should seek medical advice if this happens again, if your GP is not available try 111 or 999

This could have been a Takotsubo episode or a particularly bad vasospasm, see takotsubo.net/information/a..., either way I feel it needs attention if it happens again

[hazmatrec in reply to fishonabike]

heh. I was feeling loud symptoms of something, but didn't really think heart attack till the crp was up mildly. usually I'm either okay or battling something fiercely. and what was happening was either worsening of what already happens in my corpuscular chaos, or slight modification. I often am told when the unknown hits, "you have a lot going on, this could be anyone of a number of things. we've already got (1, 2, 3...) things under investigation, let's just watch and see".

your advice seems good, if something similar starts up again, I will go big. I'm also wondering if I should keep saying it happened to my health carers (rheumy done, but gp, the neuro, the ot also in the next month or so) in case one of them makes a connection. and this seemed a right place to ask.

thanks for reading and for the tips! interesting, the takotsubo. someone was pondering how much of what goes on with me being mis fired nerves.

kind regards

cath tyler