Having a heart attack? And you're alone? Now What?

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I’ve read a lot of your posts, and know that that question was just to stir the pot.
 
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Happened to me. August 2010. Sunday, wife went out with friends, I was heading to bar to watch NASCAR race. Stopped at 7-11. Got in car, woke up soaked in sweat, with my car on other side of parking lot. Somehow it drifted across without hitting anything, I dont remember squat. Drove home (was just around the corner) called wife, she called her friend a nurse, described symptoms, nurse/friend said I just had a HA. Over my objections, wife called 911, who showed up and promptly took me to hospital where I spend the next 3 days.
I was dam lucky because 5 minutes after leaving the 7-11 I would have been on I95 doing about 65mph when I would have passed out.
Now I eat 3 pills a day, and see my cardiologist twice a year, and last EKG said I doing real good, no HA symptoms. and i quit smoking.
They say there are 2 kinds of HA. The big one that takes you out immediately, you hit the ground dead before you know it. And the mild ones, that you recover from, eat the pills rest of your life, and hopfully live a long time after. I got lucky, I had the second.
And with all respect to GFC in first post, I had no symptoms, no pain, just instantly passed out. dont remember a dam thing until I woke up soaked in sweat on other side of parking lot. To this day, I dont have a clue how long I was out for. Could have been a minute or 3 hours, no idea.
 
Pirate Lady said:
Happened to me. August 2010. Sunday, wife went out with friends, I was heading to bar to watch NASCAR race. Stopped at 7-11. Got in car, woke up soaked in sweat, with my car on other side of parking lot. Somehow it drifted across without hitting anything, I dont remember squat. Drove home (was just around the corner) called wife, she called her friend a nurse, described symptoms, nurse/friend said I just had a HA. Over my objections, wife called 911, who showed up and promptly took me to hospital where I spend the next 3 days.
I was dam lucky because 5 minutes after leaving the 7-11 I would have been on I95 doing about 65mph when I would have passed out.
Now I eat 3 pills a day, and see my cardiologist twice a year, and last EKG said I doing real good, no HA symptoms. and i quit smoking.
They say there are 2 kinds of HA. The big one that takes you out immediately, you hit the ground dead before you know it. And the mild ones, that you recover from, eat the pills rest of your life, and hopfully live a long time after. I got lucky, I had the second.
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Scary stuff.....glad you are still with us.
 
mrsrobinson said:
My mom was in the hospital recovering from a severe ankle fracture surgery when she had a heart attack. She had to argue, yes argue, with the nurses for 1/2 the morning telling them something was not right. They kept telling her it was gas. They finally put an EKG on her and sure enough, she was having a heart attack. Triple bypass surgery the next morning.
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That "something was not right" line caught my attention. When I had my "event", that 'something not right' feeling, was my most pronounced symptom. There was none of this falling to the ground and clutching at my chest. Just an odd feeling of indigestion and a pronounced feeling of dread. I ignored it for a couple of days as the "indigestion" continued to worsen. Finally went to the hospital were they discovered a 97% blockage. (how they measure that I have no clue).

The moral of this story is that if you even think you think something ain't right, get it checked out. Our sub-conscience can be a powerful alarm system, if you are listening.
 
Yep, mine started with an asthma attack that wouldn't resolve with my rescue inhaler. Or so I thought. That asthma attack triggered an MI. And me not being able to breath was more MI than asthma. Still upright though. Cardiac cath revealed 0 blockage of any arteries.
 
highslice said:
Yep, mine started with an asthma attack that wouldn't resolve with my rescue inhaler. Or so I thought. That asthma attack triggered an MI. And me not being able to breath was more MI than asthma. Still upright though. Cardiac cath revealed 0 blockage of any arteries.
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No blockage. Same here, 3 days of tests and they never did find a cause of the HA. No blockage anywhere.
 
Hope your mother is ok . That's scary shit
 
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