as someone who’s had two open heart surgeries due to a malformed from birth LAD I can tell ya:
if you think it’s a problem with the heart, then get to an emergency room even if you have to drive yourself at 2AM in the snow like I did with my wife on my cell phone with me till I got there
it can save you.....if you’re wrong you feel great...a bit silly but still smelling the roses
if you see dark gloomy peripheral stuff and a little voice that sounds like God telling you to get a move then do.....I stood in kitchen and took my BP and it was high ..150/100....never been high before and I remember my inner voice telling me to get help...i had no chest pain or pressure just a dull pain in my armpit where I had already had two motorcycle surgeries but nevertheless I listened
I was a bit yellow too ...sorta mottled looking
* they did threads on me here...i won’t bore anymore
Most hearty agreement from this quarter. LOL
I was looking for a heart attack, since most of my maternal uncles were already dead from ages 38 to 50 from coronaries. When mine came, at the end of an aerobics class I had attended for a couple of years (!), I knew it was for real within 30 seconds. Blue lips really don't look very healthy, dontcha know.
Five minutes later I was on the way to the hospital. Five minutes later I arrived in ER, and 15 minutes later they were shooting me up with one of those clot-buster drugs. Twenty minutes after that, the pain melted away over a period of about 15 seconds (I was watching the clock while waiting in ICU to see what was gonna happen).
Angioplasty followed. Ninety days later, one of those whiz-bang heart scans showed no heart damage at all. My doc had earlier told me that the CPK level had barely bumped up.
The point: get to the ER fast. My internist had another chap my age, a week later, get the same heart attack I had. But, he waited 12 hours to seek help. By that time, he'd lost significant coronary function, and today he's still alive but on permanent disability.