Have I had a mild heart attack?

I'm only 32. I've no family history of early heart disease and otherwise well. I guess I'm just worrying. It was quite a frightening experience being ushered into resus and the defib pads slapped on my chest with the nurse saying here's a little aspirin. I was having ectopics back to back and the palpitations were about every 30seconds to a minute for the full 12 hours.

God why did they put defib pads on ??

They said it was to monitor me but I'm not so convinced. It felt like they were preparing just in case.

OK maybe before they knew what was going on. How long were you in for and I know the echo would show any damage left from a MI even and old one, it leaves scars

Thanks that's really reassuring to hear. I was only in for the day. Unfortunately there was an issue with inpatient beds so I lay in resus all day and they arranged for my echo to be done before I left and sent me home with a 48hour tape.

And what meds did they put you on

Nothing regular but he has asked the GP to give me bisoprolol to have at home incase I become symptomatic.

There a safe med, also used for anxiety as well, usually these are given to take regularly.

Have you seen cardiologist yet

yeah its been the consultant cardiologist I've saw all through apart from the initial A&E doc. He said i could take the meds regularly but his feelings were that this wouldn't give me any trouble so if I was happy he would just write to gp to give me some to keep handy incase I experienced frequent palpitations or dizziness. I think I'm ok with that but it's just this chest pain I had that last worrying me. He didn't seem as concerned about it as the initial A&E doctor did and hasn't really mentioned it since.

Remember that the Dr you see at the beginning of your visit to A&E is just a registrar, he is not a consultant he is not specific in any field yet.

Please go with your consultant he is the expert and to be honest I think he is treating you for anxiety not a heart attack.

I'm sure that what you suffered was a massive panic attack, what were your other symptoms other than pain

I only experienced the pain last Thursday and didn't think anything of it other than it was possibly reflux . On Tuesday when I was admitted there was no pain and I haven't had any since. It was the ongoing palpitations that took me round to A&E. i work in the hospital and my colleagues urged me to go round to get a quick ecg. I feel ok now after the palpitations stopped after about 12 hours except. I truly think this has all been brought on by a build up of stress over the past few months. Your comments are really reassuring and I think is just need to build my confidence up again after the fright I got.

Fear is a massive wake up call, it can completely take us from being a rational human being to someone who literally fears for there life.

I'm sure that once you have lowered your adrenaline levels you will find your palps and flutters will stop.

Not saying they will never come back but when they do you will be able to calm your heart.

Check out square breathing on Google and think of taking up yoga or another relaxation technique

Thanks so much for your advice. It has helped a lot

Thanks. I wondered if there was a time whereby your bloods would return to normal i.e. x amount of days after a cardiac event making it difficult to say really. The first doctor seemed convinced the pains I had were cardiac. I think I may need to give the cons a call and clear it all up. I'm not very clued up about cardiology tbh but I'd imagine the CT Angio would possibly diagnose any disease within the vessels i.e. Thickening.

I always imagine cardiac pain different which is why I thought mine was reflux. What was you pain like? Was it quite sharp?

I'm sorry you have both had to go through this, yes it will show if you have any blocked arteries and anything else untoward.

I'm surprised they haven't done an echo though.