wow. Well, I’m glad it took and you’re with us now. That must have been pretty scary for you, tho. I think I’ve mentioned before, my DH had a stent placed Dec 26 after faceplanting Christmas eve. No warning, just a little dizzy then, down and out. Same artery, 95% blockage. He’s had a bit of trouble with dexterity (writing mostly) but it is coming back slowly. Did you experience that with your MI ? I worry about my guy - he thinks he’s still 30 and ten-foot-tall.
During my first MI, which happened at age 39 as a result of a 100% occluded RCA, what I experienced was unusual sort of low grade pain in both arms that compelled me to hold and stretch them above my head as I sat.
This lasted for about four hours when I then noticed an unusual pain in the left chest. It was kind of a burning, sharp pain, but not all that intense of a pain. Then the pain suddenly traveled down in a spiral. I could feel it like a hot coal moving through. Never felt anything like that before, I went to the ER with my friend right away and was in the hospital for 5 days in New Orleans.
My second MI, which occurred at the age of 45 while I was inline skating, was different. On the 14th lap, a blood clot moved into my stent and caused a stenty (nurses call it that). They say these are deadly. The reason the blood clot occurred is because I was being a cheap skate and not buying or taking my statins. My natural LDL level is around 186. On statins it’s between 75-85. Genetically high LDL inherited from dad.
Anyway, the second felt like a fizzing can of soda in the center of my chest. Very unusual sensation, not painful. I figured if I just finished my last four laps, a mile, it would stop. It did not stop.
When I finished, I walked home and took some outdated, bunk nitro. It didn’t work. The fizzy sensation in my chest seemed to intensify, I called 911, and during this conversation, I began to be unable to answer simple questions. I couldn’t think of any answers.
I waited outside for the ambulance in a chair so my dogs would not eat the EMTs. I got into the stretcher on my own, and once inside, after being sort of stabilized, we left for the hospital. I was fading in and out for most of the ride, but they gave me some good nitro, oxygen and fentanyl, which all seemed to have a positive effect, and I was mostly conscious from this point until my next Catheter surgery, which put a drug eluting stent inside my original bare metal stent.
The most visible outward sign that something was very wrong with me was that I was sweating profusely, all over my body for seemingly no reason. The EMT had to towel me off considerably before applying any tape pr electrodes. I was in very good physical shape at the time, so the sweat was not a result of my recent exercise.