Silent Heart Attacks

• By TigerWiger
• Reply 3395712
• September 21, 2012 at 8:03 pm
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My mother began waking up in the middle of the night and after naps, having shortness of breath and chest pain. For 3 years doctors diagnosed this as panic attacks, due to depression over my Dad's death. All EKGs and blood work came back fine.

The last time this happened, by the time my sister got her to ER, she was turning blue. At ER, she went code blue 3 times and had to have her heart shocked. Finally, someone thought to do chest imaging, which showed that she had a blood clot in her right artery, which had grown big enough to completely block off her right artery, thus restricting blood flow to her heart.

I, myself, was diagnosed for 6 months as having anxiety, given xanax, atavan, and sent home from ER, until finally, I insisted on a chemical stress test. This resulted in getting an angiogram, which showed a lesion in my left anterior descending artery (also called the Widow Maker), which was blocking 99% of the artery. All my EKGs and blood work came out fine, as did a CT.

So, I would recommend an angiogram.

• By junebug50 (Inactive)
• Reply 3395808
• September 21, 2012 at 8:48 pm
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After countless trips to ER..over night stay with stress tests, cts, etc.sent home time and time again with diagnosis of anxiety and panic attack I was repeatedly
Told had a perfect heart. I researched myself got a cardiologist BEGGED him to give me a heart cath and 4 weeks ago had a
CABGx2..so its possible your body is trying to talk to you. This site has empowered me..I will forever be grateful