Just thought i would post this up as a reminder of how lucky some of us are.......

On Monday night i felt rather rough and went to bed about 9pm...I couldnt sleep at all through out the night and felt like someone had been standing on my chest all night....
Anyway got up and went to work on the Tuesday...Struggled to walk up the stairs at the station and felt really rough...
My boss came in about 10am and we jokingly said i must be having a heart attack..about an hour later i said i really need to get this looked at as felt no better.
So off i went to the Drop in Centre locally...

Met the triage nurse and had an ECG, she left the room and came back with 2 doctors and said we need to put you in an Ambulance NOW and straight to hospital. to say i was shtting my self is an understatment.
They gave me a GTD tablet that slows your heart and thins your blood, put me on oxygen and off i went....
Had 4 blood samples taken for tests in the ambulance and 2 more ECGS. Which showed it wasnt as bad as the nurse thought as she had the sensors out a tiny bit but still had a minor heart attack not a Major one that she shit the life out of me with.

Had further chest x rays and CT scans which later showed up i had a small blood clot on my lungs which cuased my heart to have issues.
So after a night in hospital and various blood thinin injections the clot has nwo gone and i am back to work....

But just makes you think that a heathly 26 yo who plays football 4 days a week could never have anything like that.
Really should stop partying as hard as i do

Anyway scare over and i am back in the game but if anyone has any chest pains i strongly recommend getting it looked at and dont be a hero

 

Mate holly fuck what caused this & is it going to come back or you to go for further treatment! just shows you glad your ok

 

Lucky some of us are?

Sounds as though you were well lucky that you went when you did - could have been a lot worse.

Glad everythings Ok now.

 

time to hang up the class a's mate!

 

The doctors said it could just be one of those things....which doesnt help me BUT my lifestyle definately didnt help...so need to sort it out lol.....
and no further treatment needed as the clot has gone but if i notice any change i need to go A+E straight away.

 

They wont be helping

 

thats really not good mate, glad to hear ur ok now, lets hope it doesnt happen again ay,

well some arnt so lucky, a girl died the other night whilst out on bank holiday sunday, her heart just stopped, was ment to have happend before but cpr sorted it that time, but not this time


but anyway once again glad ur all good buddy

 

Fuckin hell mate glad your ok my mates sister had a heart attack at 14, she was not so lucky though, the autopsy said she was probably dead before she hit the ground and she never had any health problems, just goes to show when your times up it's up.

 

Not so much that Dave....the fact i regularly go out all night and play football saturday and sunday mornings

 

Dan as I said hope all is cool now, think of it as a warning mate! Maybe you need to change certain aspects of your life.

 

Yeah Cheers Si....no more nights at O Neils for me

 

So you go on a bender then play football with no sleep prob with a little bit of class A's as well how do you manage that i would be too rough/tired to play football

 

Your lucky mate, maybe a change in lifestyle could help. I know a lad who had a stroke two weeks ago and he is 23. Scared the life out of me, glad your better and hopefully you`ll be with us a while longer

 

I used to play saturday & sunday football, untill I had half my left thigh removed due to skin cancer!

when I was on top form, it killed my nights out as I never wanted to be hung over / knackered for a match!

 

I do it most weekends mate.....2 weeks ago i was in Leeds was drinking from 2pm till 6.30am then went and played a whole days football tournament for 4 hours!!!!
And the weekend before that had an 18 hour drinking session in Brighton then played a match at 12pm

 

Fackin ell geez!

You've got to look after your ticker (I said Ticker)

I'm glad you're alright mate

 

Kin el m8,heed the warning.

 

Dan have you taken Meouw Meouw? thats what my friends son took and had a heart attack aged 16!

 

a mate of mine had a heart attack at 29 - and he is still doing all the bad shit he was doing before

defo a wake up call

 

Indeed i have mate wont be anymore i assure you..will be purely giving that to my plants in the future

 

Bloody hell Dan


Shit i've never seen you mention that before! Scary stuff!

 

The human body isn't as strong as people think.
Friend of mine has had 2 heart attacks, one aged 20 and another at 22. He's always kick the shit out of it though, binge drinking, coffee, red bull and smoking.
When you're young you sometimes feel invincible, but the truth is far from it.

Glad you're ok though, never a nice feeling when the docs make urgent calls to the ambulance. Time to make some changes now you have your second chance.

 

Time to calm down, lol! Least it was minor and you'll fully recover.

Benni.

 

fks sake dan!! i get pains in my chest sometimes, used to get tehm really quite regularly, hardly ever get them now but when i got them they used to floor me!

 

I would defo get them looked at mate..just go into a walk in centre and they will strap an ECG machine to you and knwo in seconds

 

Dan, how much M cat have you been takin mate?

 

1 Gram over a 4 day period mate...not much at all

 

glad to hear ur ok mate..

need to take it easy for a bit

 

the amount is not the problem, it's the 4 days of your heart at higher BPM.

did you sleep during those 4 days ?

 

damn.

think its time for you to chill for a bit!

rest up and get better soon!

 

glad to hear you've recovered

 

glad to heat your okay now

 

never tried m cat.. is it really, similar to coke?

 

Dan,

Glad you are still with us mate You obviosuly know you need to calm it down and i'm sure you will

 

kin hell dan, not good mate, just goes to show though, doesnt matter how fit, or what age, it can happen. pleased your ok buddy.

 

Yeah i did Johnny..I did alot of research before i used it so knew the limits...Yeah i did sleep granted not like 8 hours per night but i did sleep every night.

 

Bloody hell mate!
glad you're feling a bit better!
must be the season for it.. a good friend of mine had a minor heart attack on Tuesday morning (although I suspect that WAS too much class A's!) and is waiting to be released from the London c hest hospital as I type this!

definitely makes you think!

 

.....break it to him gently mate.

Glad you're alright though, scary stuff at any age I'm sure!!


Cheers,
Grant

 

Cheers everyone else...Yeah it was definately the shock i probably needed..the ambulance medic said most people have that 'one' shock and this was mine....

defo going to slow things down for a bit

 

fucking hell!! not good!!