I remember one night in the midst of a pub crawl my friend Vito felt something weird in his heart. So he put down his bacon cheese burger and beer and went to the emergency room on Atlantic Avenue. Everything was fine but we never stopped giving him shit about it.
You see that was in 1985. We weren't thirty yet.
It is a good idea to get checked out.
But one suggestion. Give up rooting for the Packers.
It will be much better for your heart. Just sayn'
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Your beatin' heart
Will make you weep
Back home. Everything checked out a-ok, except for the things that didn't, and those got repaired. Thanks for the kind words.
Modern medicine is a miracle. Truly, it is.
Unlike the Giants.
Glad you're okay, Michael.
Way to be, Haz. Stay well - it beats the alternative.
Haz. Check out my response about your heart issue on the previous thread where you originally posted.
Glad you are doing well.
Thanks everyone. I really appreciate your thoughtful comments.
DBQ - That was one of the items checked, and it was negative.
The frustrating part of the adventure is the outcome. Everything was thoroughly investigated, including a MRI from my nuts up to my chin. All negative.
Stress test with my heart at 155 bpm and my cardiologist standing next to me reading the EKG, negative. Coronary arteries wide open, negative. Heck my total cholesterol is only 110!
Blood work, negative. Ultrasound, negative.
The final answer is that scar tissue in my chest from previous heart surgery is impacting a nerve or nerves whenever I sleep in the wrong position, or move the wrong way, and causes pain that mimics a heart attack. As I sit here now it is clobbering me again. I'll seek referral to a physical therapist.
That was too much information, I'm sure. Big thanks to you all.
Err...by "negative", I meant negative cause.
I was going to mention that - I had my mitral valve repaired a bit over 7 years ago and as it turns out there is no way to work on said valve without cutting some of the stuff in the way.
Cutting, even well done cutting, leaves scars and the pains I get, while greatly diminished since '05 are frequently in previously disturbed tissues.
I had dye injected into my coronary arteries and back then they were clear. No idea how they look now, and given how expensive and painful the dye test is, I am willing to let it go for now. With Obamacare all I get is a death panel, anyway, so this evening, to celebrate the sale of my other house I had a bit of beef, a Cohiba and will have a shot of whiskey - life's short, well, at least from my perspective.
Hang in their dude, and remember, I don't even play a doctor on tv - YMMV.
*there, not their. English - I love it!
Get better Haz...
Hugs.
When I was still in my 20s I had anxiety attacks. I would lie there in bed, wondering if this is what a heart attack feels like and if I was dying. I never woke up my wife or called 911. Just laid there and pondered my pain. I guess I figured I was to young for a heart attack, so I didn't panic (ironic, eh?).
A guy I know went to the ER with chest pains, so they were going to airlift him out. Turns out he had gas from some Mexican he had eaten. Another friend had some trouble last year, so I pulled him aside and asked him how bad it has to hurt to call 911 or go to the ER. I mean, I don't want to show up and be told I ate too much Thai or something. He told me, "You'll know."
Michael, glad you're OK. Total cholesterol is only 110?
Amazing, I didn't know it went that low. I passed 170 years ago, and am trying to get under 200.
BTW, I had a co-worker years ago who had chest pains and didn't want to "Make a fuss". She insisted on driving to the Hospital and didn't make it. Finally, ended up calling 911 from the side of the road, and then died in the Hospital a day later.
It's good Haz is okay. Real good.
My heart is weird. It doesn't have an arrhythmia but when I just attained majority, my somewhat histrionic MD demanded I get all kinds of tests.
At the end of which, he told me I had whatever the condition was and said something to the effect that it was somewhat correlated with potential problems late in life (like 70s and 80s).
Thanks, doc.
I don't go to him anymore.
At the M-house we finally landed on "good to know" as a way to view and categorize info and experiences which don't necessarily lead to expected conclusions or complete understanding.
It sounds as if the ticker tests and serious observations yielded some good to know results.
I love the feeling that accompanies walking out of a hospital in relative peace and health. For me, it involves a mix of freedom, relief, gratitude, awe and joyful/sad awareness. Sprung from one way of being to return to another. Both our boys had serious brushes with death when they were little and I remember the sensation of walking out with each of them alive when it was over. I was also at the hospital with both my dad and brother on the days when their lives unexpectedly ended. One had experienced head trauma and the other, an embolism. Since both had entered the hospital the day they died, going to be with them in the hope they would pull through and walking away with the grief of permanent loss was heart wrenching.
All of which leads me to regard any return home as special. I'm glad you're back home M Haz! SixtyG selling his house is good news too. Another weight off the chest and divestiture of goods for mutual benefit!
Glad to hear everything is ok, Michael.
Stay well, paisan.
Many thanks! I'm back at work and the pressure is having no noticable...arrrggghhh....*thud*
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