I was having small chest pains for a week , I thought was heartburn , I had a headache for 2 weeks , I couldn't get rid of.
Then one day I was pumping diesel in the skid steer, boom, I woke up in an ambulance.
Common symptoms are chest pains but not always. Some just feel lousy that won't stop.
Severe headache that won't go away left shoulder pain.
Don't. Wait . Every minute counts.
Jim
It's been about 6 years since I last had my heart checked ( 2 days in hospital, they did every test known to mankind) , and they found nothing. No blockage, no nothing. My psychiatrist at the time told me "if you have chest pain or any other weird symptoms, take an anxiety pill ( xanax) and wait at least half an hour before you do anything. If it gets better, it is not a heart attack. If it doesn't , go to hospital. Anxiety issues run in my family, so do heart problems. My dad has a genetic one, not clogged arteries. After 2 days and stress in the hospital, I stopped going to any doctor period. Once I quit my job and moved to our farm, my anxiety went completely away. I didn't take a pill ( except for flying once) in about 3 years until my accident in 2018, and it's been getting worse since then, once ******* problem after another that causes me stress. Finally last September I had another full blown attack ( or maybe it was a heart problem), heart racing like crazy , felt weak, and lightheaded. I took a pill and laid down, it went away after about an hour or less. But weird symptoms have been coming up on and off. Been fine for about 2 weeks, but this morning I was cleaning the barn and my heart started skipping a beat, doing weird crap again plus felt pressure in my head and chest pain. Husband made me go to the house. I took a shower, and a pill. Ok now . I don't know how long it takes to develop a heart problem, but I should probably get it checked again, but I don't want to. I dont have a real doctor, I don't have time for this, my animals need me, plus I really don't want to catch covid at the doctors or the hospital they will send me to. Everytime I go see a doctor for this sort of thing, they send me to the hospital for tests. Trying to wait at least until spring, but I am about out of my 2 year old anxiety pills, so might become unavoidable. Husband thinks I should just not take a pill and see what happens, but I have tried that, and the symptoms just don't go away and I am just over the top miserable and can't function. SO there you have it.
One more thing, for those of you that have never experienced it, panic attacks and anxiety issues might me all in your head, but the symptoms can be very very physically real. Full blown attack, I have chest pain, feels like an elephant is sitting on it, can't swallow, can't breathe well, my arms have gone numb, my stomach can hurt, my hands and feet turn like ice, lightheaded, or pressure in head, it's really aweful.
