Originally Posted by kane

I haven't but a friend of mine did while she was at work. She is in her late 30's and was just standing at a counter at work when suddenly she felt very weak then she said she felt like someone punch her in the ribs next to her heart. She collapsed onto the floor, but never lost consciousness. She had trouble catching her breath and said she felt a lot of pressure in her chest. They called the paramedics and they took her to the hospital.

At the hospital they ended up determining that it was a mild heart attack and they put a stent in the main artery leading into her heart. She is overweight so they told her to eat a healthy diet and lose weight or she will likely have another heart attack.

She changed her eating habits for about 3-4 months then went right back to how she was eating before so I have a bad feeling another is on the horizon.

Originally Posted by wehateporn

NEVER TAKE IBUPROFEN

Originally Posted by Tam

I started having issues with my heart in my early to mid 20s and they tested me for heart attacks, anxiety and everything in between and one Dr finally found that I have a Mitral Valve Prolapse, which has now gone into a Mitral Valve Regurgitation - it is where my Mitral Valve doesn't open and close right and it will pump my blood back into my lungs, especially when I lay down - and that causes a very heavy feeling in my chest and makes me feel very congested - it's not fun at all and can be extremely deadly - I have to follow so many precautions to just keep my ass alive - if I bleed and infection sets in my blood stream I could be dead in a matter of seconds, my heart will race and all of those other heart attack little symptom ways - so I DO get a lot of the same feelings, my situation just isn't a weak heart, but weak valves that go to and from my heart... and NO surgery can fix it, all they can do is put a stint in, but not even that will "fix it".

I also have Diabetes Type 2 - Asthma - a few other things - but you know? What doesn't kill you - allows you to live another day!! I don't say stronger - just lets you live. :D

Good luck to you, Harmon, I hope you get this sorted and live a long and happy life - just look after it, be conscious of it and know your body, that is the very best advice I can give you - being someone that battles heart issues with each waking moment, that's all you can really do! Oh and avoid stress (like that's going to happen - but I try). Past that, there isn't much else you can do, just learn your body's warning signs and stay conscious of them!

Originally Posted by Luscious Media

I never knew about this one until it happened to me. 1 stent, quit smoking, more exercise and life is good.

Originally Posted by Brian837

I had a minor one the doctor said and it was 15 minutes after super severe stress that pissed me off more then anything ever. The whole right side of my body went numb, even my face.
It took about 5 minutes to come back to normal.

Originally Posted by VikingMan

I had a heat attack scare two years ago when I was in family court. Being a man in front of a judge who is a Marxist indoctrinated biased child abusing hatemonger is very stressful. I felt a tingling in my hand at the same time my chest started feeling really tight and my arm went numb. Someone called 911 and I was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance. They gave me like a dozen shots of morphine over the next several hours. I was in heaven.

Originally Posted by Sunny Day

Diet & exercise are very important. Eliminate any serious stresses in your life.

But they are not the Holy Grail. Nothing is. James Fix wrote a book about how jogging/running would give you maximum life expectancy, only to soon die while jogging on the beach in Hawaii.

See a heart specialist to determine if you're at risk. Big clue is how your family members died.

You might have just had a stress issue which can seem like a heart attack.

Originally Posted by Nasty

I'm 58, in February I was having trouble breathing, figured I had the flu but it kept getting worse. After a few weeks of this and trying different cures for chest congestion and breathing troubles I passed out and was rushed to the hospital. Turns out I had cardiac pulmonary edema, my lungs had filled with fluid do to a heart malfunction. I spend 7 weeks in a coma and 6 weeks learning how to walk again, your body doesn't take sleeping for 2 months very well lol

This was 100% caused by sitting on my ass, smoking, eating shitty food and not exercising. I lost 100 pounds while in a coma, I can barely talk due to damage the life support hoses caused to my vocal cords and they still might need to operate. I just went in for an echo and go back to the heart specialist in a week to discuss the echo.

I quit smoking, am very careful what I eat and go to the gym 3-4 times a week, I feel better than I have in years. Its real easy to sit in front of a computer 10-12 hours a day, but it will kill you if you don't take care of yourself.

Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam