What is known about men's premonitions of heart attack death?
the same thing happened with my grandpa. One day he go up too quickly and got dizzy, so a friend helped him sit down again and asked him if he was ok. he said 'you know, i dont think i'm going to be around much longer' and the very next morning he had a stroke and died. in his case, he probably knew that he was just old, and that it was his time. he was a quiet man, enjoyed a simple life and didnt like to be fussed over. i dont think he wanted to go to the hospital, he didnt want to drag it out and be miserable and make us all worry. if you knew you were going to die, and thought it was your time, would you rather spend it with family, being happy, or laying in a hospital bed, waiting for the inevitable and making your loved ones worry.? I cant speak for your father, but I bet thats what my grandpa thought. Just be thankful he didnt suffer, and be happy that your last visit was so wonderful. he obviously loved you a lot. you're so lucky to have such a great father. (i say 'have' not 'had' because he's still your father. i hate using the past tense) i still believe i have the greatest grandpa in the world. :0) nothing will ever change that.
Is it possible that my husband has suffered a heart attack and does not know?
It is not only possible; but it is probable that your husband has had a silent heart attack, if he is over 50, or he has worked hard all his life. This is because the human gene for making vitamin C in the human liver is badly mutated and does not work at all. Almost everyone is deficient in vitamin C. Vitamin C is necessary for making strong collagen, which is what holds everything together in the body, including arteries. When the coronary arteries start to tear, the body patches them with cholesterol and calcium to keep them from leaking blood. This works good for 20 or 30 years, until they get completely plugged up with cholesterol, and the victim dies from a heart attack. If the victim is still alive, he can solve this problem by taking 1 or 2 thousand milligrams of vitamin C every day, half in the morning and half in the evening, but it is a slow process of over a year or more. Don’t take 3,000 mgs or it will cause diarrhea. You can usually buy vitamin C in 1,000 mg timed release tabs in a bottle of 100 for $5, or 5 cents per tab in walmart, except when they run out. You, yourself, should also take at least a thousand mgs every day. Read more on the Internet at “Why animals don’t get heart attacks; but people do”. Hint: Animals make vitamin C in their livers.
What does a heart attack feel like?
I had a major heart attack in 2014, and here is my story:I woke up not feeling well - I couldn’t explain it… I just didn’t feel well.Around 9am, my mother and father stopped by; they had gone to the stations of the cross at the church right down the road. I began feeling a pain in my right arm, but I tried to ignore it. My mother looked at me and said that I didn’t look well, but I told her I was fine, so her and my father left.So, it was just me and my 23 year old son. He saw me rubbing my arm and asked me what was wrong. I told him I wasn’t sure - that it was like a pressure pain that was moving up my arm. He said it sounded like a heart attack, and I laughed because I thought that I was too young for a heart attack. In 2014 I was going to be 43, I believe.Anyhow, I told him that I was going to take a hot shower and put the water on my arm but that I was going to leave the door open in case I needed him to call someone. I got in the shower. At that point, the pain was in my upper arm and neck. I stood under the hot water and aimed on my neck, but it did not help. I was uncomfortable, but I managed to get out and get dressed.I then told my son that maybe a nap would make me feel better, but after just two minutes of lying down, I was too uncomfortable to bear it. I thought that I would do a breathing treatment to make myself feel better. To this day, I still wonder why in the world I thought that a breathing treatment would be effective even though I was breathing just fine and the pain was in my arm and neck.Anyway, I took out my nebulizer and albuterol and started the machine. I took one deep breath and the pain shot up from about a 5 to past a 10. I cried for my son to call 911.I made it to the local hospital, and they performed many tests and gave by nitro glycerin four times. They then stabilized me so that I could fly in the Flight for Life helicopter into the city for emergency surgery. In the city, I had a stent put in. That night, the nurse accidentally opened up my surgical site and blood splattered everywhere, making me lose so much blood that I needed two transfusions.I was told that I was lucky to be alive, and that I should have come in to the hospital when I first felt the pain in my arm and neck, and that that would have saved me a lot of trouble. I also suffered a mild brain injury because I didn’t have enough oxygen going to my head.
Would you rather die from a heart attack or cancer?
Simply put. after 11 years as an EMT. Cancer. I’ll gladly take cancer over a heart attack. Why? Simple….When my dad was alive he always told my mom that he wanted a “good, clean heart attack.” Well… he had a good heart attack….clean? notsomuch….. (oh yeah… photos taken from google search)side note… he ALWAYS yelled at us to clean up our mess, and here he leaves a massive mess across I-94….Granted. I realize that he had an accident following that. But from witness statements and everything else we had gathered that it was quite likely he died from a massive heart attack where he was pretty much fine one second and dead the next.So why do I want cancer instead of that? Because I’ve seen cardiac arrest. I know its not clean, we tend to leave a mess of wrappers and cases strewn around a 5 foot circle with the patient in the center. Cleaning up AFTER tends to take 10 to 20 minutes in and of itself.But cancer…. cancer gives you time. You have time to catch it. You have time to treat it, time to fight it, and then at the end of it all…. time to accept and reflect. You get to tell all the people you want goodbye, you get to tell them you love them one more time. You have time to cross off as many things from that bucket list as you want.So yeah, dad had his heart attack, I’ll take cancer.Follow-up Edit: There were many MANY comments stating “Cancer is no picnic either.”I fully realize its not a picnic, actually this question me and my childhood best friend could probably go back and forth over for at least an hour. His mother died after about a decade of breast cancer that had metastasized and spread throughout her, mine from a massive heart attack. With her they had time to say their goodbyes to her and she time to get things in order. Even to her last year she seemed to be still in command of everything. Granted, at the end of it all she was probably doped up to the point she wouldn’t even remember her name.Remember, this question is 98% opinion; there are no positives to either option and everyone is going to have different reasons for their answer. These are just mine.
Will every person who has had a bypass surgery get a heart attack in the future?
I can only tell you my husband's experience. He had a heart attack when he was 51 years old. He had open heart bypass surgery when he was 52. That was in 1982. He started having chest pains again in 1989 and had open heart bypass for the second time. He was a smoker and had adult respiratory distress syndrome post-op but he survived to come home and a few weeks later he had a stroke that took his speech. He coped amazingly with his speech disability and enjoyed Hobbies and watching sports on television. And he lived to the age of 75 when in 2005 he had another heart attack at the same time that he had a bowel abscess. During all that time he was never able to give up smoking. However he still had a positive attitude and enjoyed life and was on hospice the last two years of his life for advanced coronary disease and he required Morphine by mouth for the pain which was intermittent. He was 51 in 1981 when he had his first heart attack and he lived until the age of 75 2005
What is the survival rate for “widowmaker” heart attacks?
Short answer: Without emergency revascularisation treatment survival is near zero, after emergency angioplasty + stent if no cardiogenic shock 30 days mortality is around 27%, but for those in cardiogenic shock 30 days mortality is shockingly high 70%, see below.Long answer: a “widowmaker heart attack” is one due to an acute thrombosis causing total occlusion of the left main coronary artery, so called unprotected main left stem occlusion ULMLSO (as opposed to one where the LMS = left main stem is still partly open)which through its two large branches the left anterior descending coronary artery and the circumflex coronary artery feeds most of the left ventricular heart muscle, which because of the total lack of oxygen carrying blood is severely damaged, often causing Cardiogenic Shock, which is correlated with a worse outcome - since cardiogenic shock reflects the loss of heart muscle - needing lots of support among others Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump Therapy: Helping Your Heart to get them through the emergency percutaneous coronary intervention (angioplasty, followed by stenting, or later on by coronary bypass surgery).If one is lucky, and lives near (reachable within <2 hours) a high tech cath lab offering 24/7 emergency coronary angiographic services including angioplasty and stenting, and further support systems to keep one alive during the intervention if one was in shock the chances are better, especially for those not in cardiogenic shock (abbreviated as CS in the graph), from this 2014 paper Outcomes After Emergency Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Patients With Unprotected Left Main Stem Occlusion: The BCIS National Audit of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention 6-Year Experience - ScienceDirectMortality Plot Landmark Analyses of Patients Undergoing PPCI for ULMSO Versus Nonocclusive LMS Disease Stratified by Periprocedural CS(A) The 30-day mortality of patients undergoing primary PCI for unprotected LMS occlusion versus nonocclusive LMS disease divided by the presence or absence of periprocedural CS is shown. (B) The mortality plot of 30-day survivors and (C) the mortality of 1-year survivors are shown