On Christmas Day 2021, I thought I had a heart attack. It was Christmas night actually, maybe even the early hours of Boxing Day and I was woken up by one of the worst pains I have ever experienced. It felt like a metal clamp had locked around my heart and was squeezing it to the point of bursting. The pain radiated into my left arm and down into my hand, and my hand and lower arm were tingling and sort of numb. My chest was tight, it felt like I had a weight on it and I felt like I was struggling to get enough oxygen in.

I still don’t know if I had a heart attack that night. My body and mind tells me it was, but at this stage, I’ll never really know – because I didn’t call an ambulance.

Yes. I know it was stupid, and I regret the decision now, but there was a reason.

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Show notes

Podcast episodes

https://www.theendobellycoach.com/podcast/endometriosis-and-ehlers-danlos-syndrome?rq=postural

Angina

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/angina/

https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/heart-attack/angina-chest-pain

https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/heart-attack/angina-chest-pain/prinzmetals-or-prinzmetal-angina-variant-angina-and-angina-inversa

Kounis syndrome

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22050066/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4462222/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6636655/

https://cdt.amegroups.com/article/view/1609/2259

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/cclm-2016-0010/html?lang=en

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6791094/

Women and heart disease

https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/medical/women/misdiagnosis-of-heart-attacks-in-women

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/causesofdeath/articles/leadingcausesofdeathuk/2001to2018

https://www.henryford.com/blog/2017/04/women-ignore-signs-heart-attack

https://mcpress.mayoclinic.org/women-health/part-1-heart-disease-in-women-unsuspected-overlooked-ignored/

https://www.cdc.gov/healthequity/features/heartdisease/index.html