Dr. Ronald Wharton is from Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York. He shares with you an interesting and instructive case. "Which artery is blocked?”
Hi. I had shortness of breath for too long. Almost 2 years. Actually I was just feeling heaviness in the chest like a big weight. I went to see cardiologists backthen and they told me it was due to anxiety. But that was nothing like anxiety or panic attack. I suddenly woke one day with heaviness in the chest. I was fighting up to take a deep breath when I needed it. I was unable to so I was making movements to exercise the muscles around my heart so I could take the breath I needed. I also had constant palpitations. All kind of different pains in the chest. I was unable to control my heart rate and rhythm. My heart rate was not up because I was getting tired or because of anxiety. It was up on its own and it was down on its own I had no control over this. It could not be due to anxiety because I couldn't feel like I have any communication with my heart's muscle. I was waking up in the middle of the night my heart was racing and I didn't cause this, it can't be anxiety. I was sleeping on my chest instead of my back and the heart rate was going down but not normally down. I can't even tell you what my normal rate is because when all this happened, it is the only time I started checking my paulses and I became obsessed with it. Yes I became obsessed because it was the first time I was feeling my heart pounding in my chest. I don't exercise but I knew this pound is happening only when we exercise. It was not normal but nobody was listening to me. They thought I was hypochondriac. My heart was worst when sleeping but I have a habit of rubing my feet until I fall asleep. Probably I was doing this so I don't feel the symptoms, it was a nervous reaction. Recently I had the worst symptoms that awakened me but still I don't know what that is. The last month I started exercising and making movements so I release my chest from all that pressure. I also had this lucky idea to put a hot water bottle on my chest and keep in there. I started having symptoms of a flu or like an allergy. But finally all those bad symptoms went away. I am released. The heaviness in the chest does not exist. The palpitations stopped. I still feel my chest but not the way I was feeling it before. The arrhythmias are not the way they were. I feel like I control my paulse and that the ups and downs of my paulse are caused by normal causes like getting tired after exercise or getting anxious about something. This is normal. But what I had was not normal and it was not due to anxiety. But I am still scared. I feel so released and sometimes I feel like my heart is weakened, like all this pressure, this thing that was there whatever it was, like it damaged something. I don't know. I am still afraid to sleep. Because I don't know what that was and I don't know what the new situation might mean. If anyone has any idea what anything from what I described might be it would be very helpful because I can't go to the doctors. For my own reasons.
There's a stint that can be implanted, angioplasty is also available. Altering dietary habits to include less sodium, increasing fiber intake are probably the best remedies.
These test suck for blocked artery! Dad had this done then had a major heart attack after being negative. Mother in-law blockage was missed and so was mine. Ether these test are garbage for blocks or people that work for multi care have no clue how to use them.
