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Richard301
In 1999, I was at work as a bingo caller. When
home late at night while having sex with my wife,
I felt something in my chest that felt like I had just come in from a long run.
When I rolled over the feeling went away. It scared me but I didn't do anything
about it. About two months went by and it was still occurring. The next time it
wasn't the same feeling it was a mild heart attack. I had a fear of getting my
blood pressure taken, and had never had it done. I finally went to the doctors
and he tried to take my blood pressure and I guess I kinda went nuts, anyway my
blood pressure was 240 over 180. They gave me nitro and another pill. I was told
I should go get checked out at the hospital. Not me, oh no, I said it must be a
panic attack. The cardiologist sent me to a mental doctor who gave me over ten
different pills for mental conditions. I had multiple heart attacks after that,
but I kept going back to the "QUACK." I was at work sweating bullets and the
pain was unbelievable. By now it had been four months since the first sign
something was wrong. My boss got on the microphone and jokingly told everyone
that I was having a "panic attack" but I still hung in there. This "QUACK" give
me a paper bag to breath into, he said I was hyperventilating. I breathed all
night in this bag and getting worse. Finally the next day I went for a stress
test and before I could even start the doctor told me to get to the hospital and
that I had had multiple heart attacks. So I took my bag to the hospital still
hoping
that maybe it would just go away. I ended up having a triple bypass, but the
thing is I only have 35% of my heart working. The doctors could not believe I
was not dead. I now have to live with heart disease. Two weeks ago after working
in the yard in the heat for a few days my usually high blood pressure dropped to
101 over 56. It appears to stay there now for over a week. I'm now 58 yrs old.
Please, if you read this don't do what I did, be smart and go to the hospital
ASAP.
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