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Originally Posted by dre
A family friend almost died of a heart attack. Luckily he was already in the hospital.
He said he remembers having it and telling the nurse. The scary part he said was when everything went black.
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About 10 years ago, I started hearing my heart beat in my head, really loudly and it didn't sound right, it would race, pause, race, slowdown, it was all over the map.
Of course I thought its nothing heartburn whatever, my arms not in pain I'm good.
The next day I went to work, and a workmate noticed that my lips were blue. my vision went down to pinpricks, and I had the cold sweat going, so in the Captains brilliance, I hopped in my car refusing a ride, and drove through downtown to the foothills hospital with pinprick vision and the beginning of some real chest pain.
I made my way to the emergency room, and the nurse took my pulse and rushed me to a bed where they started giving me Nitro. They gave me an ultra sound took several gallons of blood, and everytime I sat up I fainted.
Not a heart attack, not angina, but I had developed an irregular heartbeat.
Going back to the drug link the first question they asked me "Do you or have you used steroids", or course just as I was admitting that I used steroids in high school my folks walked in and heard the whole thing.
After a perscription for beta blockers almost killed me, they put me on Calcium channel blockers. If those didn't work, it was the surgery option where they ram a cathetor up to your heart through your groin and start cauterizing parts of the nerve harness that are attached to your heart.
Lesson learned, Steroids are bad.