Doctors of reddit, what was a symptom a patient didn’t mention that was really important?

I was 34 when I had a heart attack. I was in a job that was very stressful, working 12hrs/day, and ate like shit at like 11 at night. On a day off, I felt like I had acid reflux (I’d never had it before) and my jaw was hurting. Not hurting, but like I had to stretch it out (can’t explain it better). Felt like I had to burp with the acid reflux, but I couldn’t. Felt like all I had to do was to burp and I’d be ok, but still the jaw thing kept bothering me. Late that night, I felt a sense of foreboding (it’s a thing, like something was very wrong), I drove to the hospital. Once I was there, chest pains. But not like the crushing pains you see in movies. I told the ER nurse, and they admitted me right away. Took my BP, I was like 285 over 90, I think. Took me to cath, put a stint in my vein, or artery, I forget. Moral of the story: left arm pain isn’t the only sign that something is wrong. Also, it can happen to anyone. The jaw thing, I found, is def a sign. Also, there’s a ‘widowmaker’ vein in your neck that gets clogged. BTW, I’m fine now. No scarring on my heart. But something like that really changes you. You always think things like that happens to other people. Like cancer. Depression usually follows. I turned into a hypochondriac after that, every little pain I thought ‘this is it’. I’m not good at advice, so please forgive me.

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