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Could this have been a heart attack?
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<blockquote data-quote="Shari" data-source="post: 358575" data-attributes="member: 1848"><p>About 6 years ago, husband and I got a babysitter and went to the demo derby at the local county fair.</p><p>***</p><p>Sitting in the stands, laughing my butt off, I suddenly got insanely hot and started sweating profusely, my entire chest cramped and I felt short of breath. My arms both felt heavy and pain shot into my shoulders and hips. I could feel my heart beating irregularly in my chest - fast fast fast fast fast ......nothing.....then fast fast fast fast. I made my way out of the stands without saying anything to husband or anyone else and sat against the far side of the cook shack for close to 30 minutes before it started to let up.</p><p>***</p><p>Later that night, tho I felt better, I still knew something wasn't right, and my pulse confirmed that my heart rhythm was still off. I finally told husband and we went to the ER.</p><p>***</p><p>They confirmed a very irregular heartbeat, but aren't sure beyond that what was going on. Some suggested a panic attack but I've never had anything even remotely similar happen since (and I've had lots of chance to have one! lol) Occasionally my heart skips a beat, and I feel it most of the time (at least I think its most of the time) but its never been like that night since.</p><p>***</p><p>I guess what I'm saying is, I look back on that now, and it still scares me. I was stupid to go it alone and walk out of the stands like I did. I don't know that I had a heart attack or anything, but I know what happened was very wrong. You know they say you have that "sense of impending doom" when you have a heart attack? Well, I look back on that night and feel that "doom", tho I didn't at the time. Every fiber of my being says whatever it was, was bad. I won't take that chance again. </p><p>***</p><p>Three years later, I lost my dad - tho he also had evidence of unknown heart attacks, they determined it was a bout of uncorrected irregular beats that, this time, didn't correct themselves, that took him.</p><p>***</p><p>Don't mess around with your heart.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shari, post: 358575, member: 1848"] About 6 years ago, husband and I got a babysitter and went to the demo derby at the local county fair. *** Sitting in the stands, laughing my butt off, I suddenly got insanely hot and started sweating profusely, my entire chest cramped and I felt short of breath. My arms both felt heavy and pain shot into my shoulders and hips. I could feel my heart beating irregularly in my chest - fast fast fast fast fast ......nothing.....then fast fast fast fast. I made my way out of the stands without saying anything to husband or anyone else and sat against the far side of the cook shack for close to 30 minutes before it started to let up. *** Later that night, tho I felt better, I still knew something wasn't right, and my pulse confirmed that my heart rhythm was still off. I finally told husband and we went to the ER. *** They confirmed a very irregular heartbeat, but aren't sure beyond that what was going on. Some suggested a panic attack but I've never had anything even remotely similar happen since (and I've had lots of chance to have one! lol) Occasionally my heart skips a beat, and I feel it most of the time (at least I think its most of the time) but its never been like that night since. *** I guess what I'm saying is, I look back on that now, and it still scares me. I was stupid to go it alone and walk out of the stands like I did. I don't know that I had a heart attack or anything, but I know what happened was very wrong. You know they say you have that "sense of impending doom" when you have a heart attack? Well, I look back on that night and feel that "doom", tho I didn't at the time. Every fiber of my being says whatever it was, was bad. I won't take that chance again. *** Three years later, I lost my dad - tho he also had evidence of unknown heart attacks, they determined it was a bout of uncorrected irregular beats that, this time, didn't correct themselves, that took him. *** Don't mess around with your heart. [/QUOTE]
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