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• adhocfungus@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Heartburn is a type of pain usually caused by acid reflux, but can be mimicked by a heart attack.

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  • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Well that’s fucking terrifying

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    • WhySoSalty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      If you’re a woman the symptoms for a heart attack are different than a man’s and are often missed.

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  • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Wait, it’s possible to have a heart attack for 5 days? I thought a heart attack means your heart stops and you pass out?

    Reading these comments is exposing how little I really know how cardiology. This is what it feels like to be on the first peak of the Dunning-Kruger curve.

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    • adhocfungus@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      A heart attack is a damaging lack of blood flow to the heart. This is very often caused by your heart beating wrong (or not at all) but can have many other causes. It’s also important to note that the heart largely does not receive oxygen from the blood inside it; it has its own set of blood vessels on the outside feeding it. Therefore you can have a heart attack even though the pumping portions are completely clear.

      It’s possible for the blood flow to be slowed so far by blockages that your heart starts taking damage, yet still struggles on for five days. Definitely not a common scenario, but it does highlight just how varied and uneven heart attack symptoms are. Which just makes the whole thing that much scarier in my opinion.

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      • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        That seems to be a common theme in medicine. You have a super common symptom that is usually caused by something completely harmless, but there’s also a non-zero chance that you’re absolutely screwed.

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    • jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      My heart actually did stop in the hospital… after the 2nd heart attack. I was asleep and had no clue until the nurse came in the room.

      6AM, wake up, waiting on a stent, fiddling around on my phone. Nurse comes in.

      “Were you asleep about an hour ago?”

      “Yeah, why?”

      “Your heart stopped for 8 seconds.”

      “Ummm… thank you? I don’t know how to respond to that.”

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      • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Wow. That’s amazing. And terrifying. I hope you’re doing better now.

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• XTL@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Both are a kind of chest pain. It doesn’t really get felt in a single spot.

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