Thank you everyone!!
I had another heart attack and they placed another stent. I had quadruple bypass in '98 and had a lot of heart damage, but I am still standing here! I was too young to have a heart attack and thought it was all indigestion. In 2009 2 of my grafts were blocked and I had several more heart attacks and more damage, again thinking it was indigestion, my doctor was giving me prescriptions for it. this time I knew it was not indigestion another of my grafts is blocked luckily I grew some new collateral arteries and they were able to stent it.
This is the most common problem especially with women. Our chest pain feels like indigestion. I would take Pepto Bismol and it would help, the reason is ... it contains aspirin. To every woman and man out here, if you have indigestion and you take medicine whether it is Tums or Pepcid if that pain doesn't go away it is not indigestion!!!! I can't stress this enough! Indigestion should have some relief after you take any kind of meds for it, again if it doesn't [COLOR=FF0000]take 2 aspirins (not 1) and GO TO THE HOSPITAL![/COLOR]
Both myself and my husband had the jaw pain and blamed it on a tooth thinking we needed some dental work. We blamed the arm pain on what we had been doing. He plays guitar and was in a band and played solo so he thought that was causing him the pain. He thought the smoke in the clubs was causing his heavy chest, With both of us, we found there excuses for everything. We never felt out of breath, never has nausea, never felt sweaty.
Don't make the same mistakes and excuses that we did. No one wants to go to the emergency room and be sent home because it was indigestion. I wish we would have.
I hope someone reads this, remembers it and if they have a problem, they go to the hospital I will feel good about sharing our story.