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TLDR: I had an actual heart attack for 16 hours, it wasnāt my doing and Iām absolutely fine.
Iām not one for posting personal stuff BUT if anyone gets a whiff of what happened without full context it could sound pretty whacky or alarming. So hereās the full and mostly uninteresting story of how this apparently perfect 32 year old specimen (doctorās words, not mine) had a heart attack.
On Wednesday night I was putting up some lights in the kitchen and dining room. Once I got the kitchen set up I started feeling a bit off. I was light headed and felt like someone was bear hugging me. I had to put some effort into taking a full breath. I called it quits and didnāt finish putting the lights up in the dining room (another job unfinished, typical).
I jumped in the shower for a lukewarm warm wash to calm me down, but was becoming a little dizzy, but pushed through. Once out of the shower as I was bending to dry my feet, the head spinning was getting pretty gnarly. I was overcome with cold sweats and basically had to dry myself again. I didnāt want to bend down anymore so opted for the fan drying experience. Thatās a fan that blows air btw, and not a fan of my content drying me off.
I went and flopped onto my bed with the fan on max. I had some pins and needles and felt a little faint. I wasnāt in any pain but I felt rather off. I googled ātight chestā and everything was either panic attack or heart attack, which OBVIOUSLY it wasnāt a heart attack, right?
Having never had a panic attack before, I figured this unfamiliar sensation was that. I did all of the ādeep breathesā remedies for a panic attack, which didnāt help at all. Funny that. Also why would I be having a panic attack? The lights in the kitchen looked great.
Maybe I had an infection, maybe I had low blood sugar? Dehydrated? I took some pain killers, ate some food, drank some water and figured Iād sleep off what ever this was.
Come about 7am Thursday morning and a whole night of shitty sleep. The tight chest had turned to every full breath hurt. On a scale of 1-10 of āI need medical assistanceā it was probably a 2 or a 3. BUT I was reminded of my good friend George @0period who had a chest pain, got it checked out and thank god he did, as it was cancer causing his chest pain (which he has talked about publicly, and from which he has fully recovered and is fine and dandy.. and very handsome).
So I thought ahhh fine, just in the off chance itās a George situation Iāll go to the emergency room. So up I went.
I arrived at about 7:30am. There were about 20 people in the waiting room. I went to the front desk and gave them my symptoms, sat down and the next name called was mine (I guess describing the symptoms of a heart attack lets you jump the queue). The nurse took me into a room, extracted a whole bunch of my blood and took my blood pressure. Then they took it again. Looking bemused they took it again on the other arm. Then they asked me to go back to the waiting room.
The second my ass hit the seat a doctor (or trainee, not sure what his role was but he was dressed differently to the nurses, his name is Christian) came out and called my name. He took me into a room and looked me up and down, poked and prodded, asked a million questions. I told him I felt okayish, and the primary ongoing symptom was that it hurt to breathe all the way in, like someone was standing on my chest. I explained how I didnāt feel deathly but also didnāt want to be that dude that doesnāt feel deathly and just dies at home randomly, hence me coming into emergency. He said I looked a lot worse than how I described I was feeling. He got my chest x-rayed to look for an infection near the heart, and asked me to wait in the waiting room until the blood work came back. He also said if I started feeling any worse to let a nurse know immediately.
After sitting in the waiting room for about 5 minutes boy oh boy did I start feeling worse. Nauseous, head spinning, cold sweats. I let the nurse known and she sat me down, gave me some water, took my blood pressure and said something in medical lingo ( you know like āhis OMB is under the PLS limitā, some shit like that) to another nurse with an alarmed tone in her voice that made the other nurses stand up.
They put me in a wheel chair and wheeled me into some back room full of arm chairs and people with IV drips. They hooked me up to an IV and Christian reappeared. He put me onto a blood pressure machine and said āI thought you looked worse than you felt. Remember you said you didnāt want to be that guy that dies randomly at home, well I am very glad you came in. Youāre going to be staying the night so cancel any plans you haveā. He and the nurse sat there waiting for my blood pressure result and then he said āhis blood pressure is 70/45, letās get him to the resuscitation unit immediatelyā. Not at all ominous š
In all honesty I wasnāt worried because if anything were to go wrong Iād be in the exact spot I needed to be. On top of that for the most part I felt pretty okay. Breathing was a bit of a struggle and hurt a bit, but meh.
SO I get zoomed to the RESUSCITATION UNIT, which my ADHD fantasy brain had me expecting to meet with a coven of necromancers. But no, there was Christian, about 12 nurses, doctors zipping in and out introducing themselves and giving me pills, needles, more IV bags, pain killers, antibiotics, anti inflammatories, the whole alchemy shop.
Iām certain Dracula was in the building because Iām pretty sure they took 80% of the blood in my body. They gave me an ultrasound which showed absolutely nothing amiss. A crack team of cardiologists came down and performed an echocardiogram, which as far as I can tell is like a super specific high res ultrasound for the heart. I asked ācan you see anything interestingā?The head cardiologist replied āYour heart looks worryingly perfect. There is something very wrong and itās not showingā.
The x-ray showed nothing
The ultra sound showed nothing
The echocardiogram showed nothing
Bloodwork was perfect
I had half the cardiologists in Sydney standing around me in the resuscitation unit scratching their heads.
So the next step was to undergo an angiogram. I signed 50 piece of paper and Christian said āI canāt come with you, so this is probably the last time Iāll see youā and gave me a fist bump, before I was hurriedly carted away to the Theatre of Blood (I made that name up) where the angiogram would take place.
This is a procedure in which they enter the body via either the artery in the wrist or groin, release some kind of dye that shows up on X-rays and will give them a full view of my circulatory system. Thank the gods they went in via the artery in the wrist as Iāll explain later.
Within In minutes they could see my entire right carotid artery was 100% blocked. The medical report actually says ā100% blockedā. They put a stent in which immediately alleviated all of my troubles. I had no chest pain, I could breathe fully, it was instant relief (and remains so). It was a success. I went from heart attack to feeling 100% healthy in a literal second.
The rest of my stay in the hospital was very boring. It was literally just 4 days of monitoring. The second the stent went in I felt healthier than ever. I did not feel like I needed to be bed bound - therefor having to lie down for 4 days was Ssssoooooo booorrriinnggg.
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