Silent Heart Attacks
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Stress causes heart attacks. Spending a bunch if time worrying about whether or not youve had a phantom heart attack could just induce one lol
No need to stress. Just ask your doctor to run a test (or tests) and you'll know either way. I think the gold standard test is the ECK.
"Silent" or unnoticed heart attacks are a thing. I had an irregular ECG a few years ago and my doctor believed that I had had a mild coronary for a few seconds without noticing it. My dad died of a coronary at a very young age. And so I was packed off for multiple tests at the Hospital.
Fortunately the concerning ECG read turned out to be erroneous and I emerged with a clear record of heart functioning.
Fortunately the concerning ECG read turned out to be erroneous and I emerged with a clear record of heart functioning.
Damn typo. Ok, ECG it is. Ok, but I knew there is a "K" somewhere.
Electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) - Mayo Clinic
I did have a “mild” heart attack, none are actually mild! Felt like a twinge in my chest and ache in my left arm, lasted a few seconds. Was going to wave it off but was at an event and went to on site medics to get checked out and was sent to hospital right away! Ended up with 3 partially blocked arteries. 3 stents later out the door good to go!
I've never heard of that. When one has a heart attack, heart muscle has died due to a lack of oxygen. I'm not sure how dying heart muscle can be unnoticed. Having said that, there are some references to it but IMO, it is more a factor of denial by the patient. They don't want to admit that they're having pain.
What I have heard of is if someone is a silent ischemic. Ischemia is inadequate oxygen being delivered to the heart muscle. The pain from angina is also due to heart muscle not getting enough oxygen due to poor perfusion usually due to clogged arteries. In a way it is a precursor to a heart attack, a warning sign, per se. So silent ischemia is when the heart muscle is not receiving adequate blood/oxygen but it is not enough for the individual to feel pain. This is much more common than a "silent heart attack".
The medical term for a heart attack is a myocardial infarct or MI.
There's a lot of material on the web. Just type in "silent heart attack" in a search engine.
Silent Heart Attack: Causes, Symptoms and Treatment (clevelandclinic.org)
haha I honestly thought was s*x thing. I wanted to learn more so I kept reading forums.
so it sounds like they were largely unaffected and it wouldnt have made much of a difference in their quality of life whether they knew or not
My heart attack was later re-diagnosed as a hyper-tension attack.
Two blood pressure meds have kept me at 120/80 for 4 years now.
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