A heart attack experience

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Originally Posted by ptc

Ray
could your recent attack have been in any way brought about by your recent
trip to Oz
D V T long flight trips.
Peter.

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Peter correction Ray should read jow104?

As regards flight I shall never know.?

but

The first leg of the flight this year was awful. an allergy started about 2 hours into the flight (streaming nose like hay fever, never been a sufferer before) and only stopped on flight change at Tokio. There were two or three other sufferers as well. At the time I though it might be some debugging divice :(

I did have another trip booked for this year but the travel insurance has now imposed heart treatment conditions or giving me a full refund of any bookings I had made. Not bad after only $300 paid a month ago????????

Welcome to the club.

Had my first MCI at 45 with one stent inserted, Two more within a week 18 months later with a further 2 stents. That was January 1999.

Every day now is brighter than the last even though I went through a depressive episode afterwards - useless mortal stuff. :o

Someone else mows the lawn and cuts hedges now, between fishing woodworking and tinkering here and there I'm buggered if I know how I ever had time to go to work. :p

Good health and wealth to you and the future.

Jamie

Woody

I just caught up with your post. I hijacked a post with some pictures of Queensland along the lines of what you have just gone through but I ended up having a quadruple bypass which is just a little more painfull than stents and hopefully will be going home this weekend.

Here is the Hijack. http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...light=Ipswitch

and here is the result.

http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...ad.php?t=18587

All the best Woody Like me you need to take it easy.

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Had my first MCI at 45

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I went to bed last night and something I ate must've disagreed with me. Shortly after I lay down, I started getting a pain in the top end of my gut. I lay there for awhile thinking about this thread and maybe this is it, I'm a gonner at 39. I got up, had an Alka Seltzer, went back to bed and slept like a baby. I had the ticker checked out a few years ago as part of a health thing and there was no sign of any problems. Maybe I should book in for another look see...

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Originally Posted by silentC

:eek:

I went to bed last night and something I ate must've disagreed with me. Shortly after I lay down, I started getting a pain in the top end of my gut. I lay there for awhile thinking about this thread and maybe this is it, I'm a gonner at 39. I got up, had an Alka Seltzer, went back to bed and slept like a baby. I had the ticker checked out a few years ago as part of a health thing and there was no sign of any problems. Maybe I should book in for another look see...

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The interesting thing is in this country if you go into any hospital emergency ward with chest pain they always take it seriously and will give you a thorough check up and not make you feel embarrased if it is only indigestion.

It is all the better if you go in at 3am in the morning as you will certainly be at the head of the queue.DAMHIK.

One of the questions they ask us is how bad the pain is on a level of 1 to 10.
I said how do I know what a 10 is and they said a 10 is equivelent to an elephant sitting on your chest. Mine was about a 5 to 6 and they and they took that very seriously. I am glad they did.

I wonder if it's the same for a 30 something year old? Never had that experience thankfully but if it's anything like women and breast cancer, young people might have trouble convincing a doctor there is something wrong with them. Although I suppose that perception is changing.

I went to the doctor several years ago because I noticed I had what they call an ectopic beat. It's basically a double beat every now and then. First I had to convince the doctor that it was even there, she thought I was a hypochondriac. Eventually she relented and sent me to a cardiologist. They hooked me up to the machine that goes bing and managed to capture one of them on tape. Then I had the interview with the cardiologist, who was probably 10 years younger than me. Reading between the lines, although he said there was no sign of heart disease, I got the impression that he thought it was a waste of his time owning to my age. He even used the phrase "at your age" a couple of times. Then I read about people dropping dead at 35!!

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Originally Posted by silentC

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I went to bed last night and something I ate must've disagreed with me. Shortly after I lay down, I started getting a pain in the top end of my gut. I lay there for awhile thinking about this thread and maybe this is it, I'm a gonner at 39. I got up, had an Alka Seltzer, went back to bed and slept like a baby. I had the ticker checked out a few years ago as part of a health thing and there was no sign of any problems. Maybe I should book in for another look see...

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Can I suggest that next time you're seeing the quack, see what he thinks about having a scan for gallstones. 3 of us in the family (SWMBO, daughter & I) have all had similar symptoms, with the same result.

I'm starting to think the gall bladder is the new appendix. :rolleyes:

Mum had one of them. Size of a tom bowler. Had the whole gall bladder removed. People used to say she had a lot of gall. Not any more :D