Hi, I have just been let out of hospital and have been t...
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Hi, I have just been let out of hospital and have been told I have unstable angina, and I have had a silent heart attack ?? I find this so hard to believe, after one hour in the emergency unit, I was fine and was wanting to go home.
My story is, I came home for lunch from work and went to make a cup of tea when I felt an ache in my left shoulder, I knew I also had heart burn as I suffer from it and took some antacids but then my neck and jaw felt very tight and I felt light headed, then felt sick. This took a step up 3 times over 15mins until I felt very sick and felt my jaw and neck was in a head lock and so asked my husband to take me to the emergency hospital. In the hospital my heart rate was fine but my blood pressure was slightly up, they took a blood test and said they would keep me over night and take more blood which they did, they told me my first blood test was normal but the next showed enzimes consistant with a heart injury, they then asked me if it was ok to tell my mother who had phoned that I had had a heart attack??? I was shocked? no one said I had had a heart attack, I had no chest pain at all???
I am 44yrs old and awaiting an angiogram. This is so unreal I feel so well, I was in hospital 3 days and went back to work straight away as I am a self employed hairdresser and xmas is such a busy time, I carry my spray for under my tongue. I feel a fake & think my doctors are wrong I never took drugs before, now I must rattle with them.
Is there anyone who can identify with me .. I am told this is denial.. I feel really well... I smoked up to 30 a day.. now down to 4 or 5 a day, I know I must stop smoking but I'm so stressed out. my mum runs the rehab unit for heart patients, she has had 3 heart attacks and I won't go, she also is the secretary for the heart support unit and I won't go. I am really trying to give up the smoking but it's so hard because it's all so unreal..
Is there anyone who has had like me above who I could confide in and know what I am going through??
juls.
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I can relate with what you are saying,i am 43yrs of age and a self employed electrician.Back in august 2005 i had very bad chest pain and my left arm was painful, i ignored it at first and put it down to muscle pain due to my work.But with my family nagging me i went to hospital and was kept in for 1 night.They told me i had suffered a very bad angina attack and sent me home with spray and all the tablets.I to found this hard to believe that it was happing to me and went back to work but stopped smoking.Two weeks being back at work i suffered another bad attack and was back in hospital where they kept me in to do the angiogram test where they found 4 blockages 3 were 90% blocked 3 stents were put in i was then released from hospital and gave up work for now so i can come to terms with what has happened to me and the fact i am still getting chest pain due to the last blockage and may have to go back in for that to be done.I have now resigned my self to the fact i had to change my life style which i have now done after a lot of thought and upset.The main thing is you and i are still here to tell the story.BE strong and you will get there in the end in your own time.
Billy
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Thanks Billy or replying
I had my angiogram yesterday 19th jan 06 and I have moderate heart disease.. I do not need a stent etc only drugs?
It still seems unreal except I had an attack on the table during the test and needed 3 sprays of GTN and then 2 more attacks while lying flat afterwards ... the heart specialist said my heart didn't like the dye?
Hope you are ok and thanks for your response, if you need to chat I am here.
Julie Williams
From Chester England uk.
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I am glad to hear you are ok, and that you did not have to have stents put in because it is not very pleasant to have done.I am like you and still finding it hard to believe it is happening and not being allowed to do the things i used to do like working but for now i have to do as i am told as i am waiting for another test because i am still getting bad angina pains.One thing we have got to do is to slow down our pace because i still find my self rushing around like i used to don,t know if your the same.The main thing is we are here to tell the tail so keep that thought in the back of your head as i do and you will feel better each day.And i will not say give up the fags as you are probley sick of hering that one.
Hope to speak soon and good luck
Billy Mitchell
Sale, Cheshire
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porsha
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i have had alveolitis for 1 year and have now just found out i have angina as well, i went to the docs today as the pain was so bad last night, the pain startes in my chest then goes up my neck,down my arm and into my back, like you have pulled a mussel well im in such shock as im only 43 i smoke 15-20 a day and have tried so many ways to give up and cant, i feel a compleat loser, and im in such shock i just cant belive it, im now on the spray but no tablets i just wish there was someone to chat to.
hope your ok and well done for not smoking
porsha
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Well, I had the procedure on Monday and got home yesterday and went for a walk today with absolutely no chest pain. The worst pain now is from the Angio-Seal that went into my leg to seal the femoral artery. Boy did that smart when it was deployed into my leg.
I gotta say that I could not have hoped for better treatment from the NHS in Aberdeen a fantastic bunch of people who could not have been more professional or cared more if they had tried. I'll be on the Plavix for a year and Aspirin for life but the one I am really looking forward to quitting is IMDUR which gives me such bad headaches.
I'm not sure what I am trying to say here other than to celebrate my own success which is perhaps a wee bit selfish but to also tell you that it does happen to us young ones and that there is real hope out there. The cardiologists in the UK are amongst the best in the world.
Have faith and take each day as it comes !
valerie
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I originally went to GP complaining of fast and sometimes irregular heartbeat. Apparently I may have angina. I have had no pain but a little chest tightness at times, nothing too uncomfortable though. I have cut out coffee which has all but stopped the palpitations and cut out the fags which also causes the papitation as I can tell if i just have the odd puff now and then.
The trouble is while I am waiting for the echo test I am getting all sorts of pains that I wasn't getting before. The problem is that I have bulging discsin my neck which cause all kinds of chest and shoulder pains, so How am I to know which is which? I'm a very sprightly 59.
Pru
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