All About Massive Heart Attack
What Is Massive Heart attack?
Heart attack occurs when the blood supply to any part of the heart is interrupted causing some heart cells to die. This happens most commonly due to occlusion or blockage of a coronary artery. Restriction in blood supply causing Oxygen shortage causes an exorbitant damage or death called infarction in the heart muscle tissues (myocardium), leading subsequently to massive heart attack.
Massive heart attack in men causes a sudden pain in their chest, extending to the left arm or left side of the neck. Complication in taking breath, suffocation, nausea, vomiting, fast palpitations, sweating, and anxiety are the vivid signs of person’s getting victimized of massive heart attack. While the women may experience some typical symptoms than men, most commonly shortness of breath, weakness, a feeling of indigestion, and fatigue.
Maximum number of people die due to massive heart attack in the world. Though there is a notion that only after some specific age does the heart attack occur, the fact reveals that heart attack affects the men over 40 and women over 50 by their respective age.
If you feel any of the above mentioned complications, seek the medical help before the condition gets deteriorated further. If not treated on time, heart attack results into untimely death of the heart patient.
Symptom Of Heart Attack
- Excessive perspiration.
- Obfuscation.
- Breath problem.
- Pain in the chest.
- Weakness leading to fall on the ground.
Precautionary Steps To Be Taken By Patient
- Remain tension free.
- Avoid cholesterol based foods.
- Do not smoke.
- Do not sex with you partner rapidly.
- Avoid heavy works.
- Take maximum rest.
- Sleep for maximum hours.
- Go for early morning walk.
- Avid noise.
- Watch TV or listen radio at lower volume.
- Abstain from participating in public functions.
- Use only fresh green vegetables and fruits.
- Drink fruit juice.
- Avoid sunshine. (If not possible, cover up your entire exposed body with cotton sheets while going out.)
- Listen light musics.
- Avoid crowded market.
Causes of Massive Heart Attack
Excessive smoking, mental tension, intemperance in consumption and cholesterol blocking the artery of blood are the major causes of heart attack. Some of the major factors causing sudden heart attack and leading oftentimes to death are being given over here.
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Teeth Fillings-Though this is not a common cause of massive heart attack, it contributes to a great extent in causing the heart ailments. Those who get the cavity of their teeth filled with fillers like silver invite involuntarily a heart attack. Teeth fillers are made of about 50% mercury which has proved to be a deadly metal poison for the heart patient. This mercury leaks out of your teeth penetrating into your blood, thus causing a massive heart disease.
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Arrhythmia or Ventricular Fibrillation-Irregular heartbeat is recognized as arrhythmia or fibrillation. Be whatever it may, the reason of yours getting scared or upset, increases the heartbeat too fast, which oftentimes gets irregular. Such irregular heart beat leads to a massive heart attack. Immediate cure is required to be administered to the patient in a from of Defibrillation. It can be accomplished with defibrillator, a devise to be placed on the chest of patient, which controls the excessive palpitation of heart, making the patient relaxed.
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Coronary Artery Disease-High cholesterol, cigarette smoking, high blood pressure, and a host of other risk factors cause coronary artery disease. Coronary artery disease can eventually lead to gangrene, heart failure, heart attacks, and abnormal heart beat. This information on coronary artery disease will help you build a foundation to your understanding of how heart attacks occur. The actual disease process or atherosclerosis is a chronic or progressive process. A myocardial infarction can be a result of an arterial blockage. A myocardial infarction means heart attack.
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Susceptibility Of Heart Muscle To The Damage- The Heart attack occurs whenever the immunity of heart’s eternal muscles weaken. So if any individual survives the heart attack, it happens only because of less severity of heart attack. In other words, some of the eternal muscles of heart get damaged with the passage of time. And a natural process of resuscitating of such damaged muscles requires shifting of the surroundings of healthy muscles inside the heart to remodel the damaged muscles, which contracts the heart as a result. Such sudden contraction causes a massive heart attack.
Tests To Be Conducted
- Looking into the history by electrocardiogram and ascertain cardiac markers, blood tests and heart muscle cell damage.
- A coronary angiogram to see the obstructions on the heart vessels.
- Chest radiograph and routine blood tests reveal the complications.
- Echocardiogram.
- Technetium-99m 2-methoxyisobutylisonitrile (Tc99m MIBI).
Physical examination
A patient suffering from heart ailment can be detected from the following symptoms.
- Restlessness and severe distress with increased respiratory rate.
- A cool and pale skin depicting vasoconstriction.
- Low fever (38–39 °C).
- Increased or decreased blood pressure.
- Irregular pulse.
- Hepatojugular reflux.
- Swelled legs.
- Swelled Cardiac.
- Auscultation.
Tips To Prevent The Massive Heart Attack
If you fear of getting victimized of massive heart attack any time in your life, you should follow some of the specific suggestions in order to prevent the heart attack from hitting upon you. In order to prevent the risk of recurrence of myocardial infarction, you will have to bid a farewell to yours smoking and drinking habits. You will have to consume cholesterol free foods only and avoid general tension of routine life. There are a few conspicuous tips being given over here to help you cope with the massive heart attack problem.
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Anti Platelet Therapy-To reduce the cardiovascular risk anti platelet therapy can be applied. Anti platelet therapy separates those fat particles which play their significant role in causing a clotting inside the heart, which in turn causes a massive heart attack in the individual. For using such therapy the aspirin is administered to the heart ailment patient mixing with clopidogrel. Before going for anti platelet therapeutic treatment the patient should consult the doctor and discuss its feasibility, as it happens to be risky for a few patients susceptible to different diseases.
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Beta Blocker Therapy-This is a therapy used to supply the clotted heart with blood to put the disordered function of the heart onto its natural track. It is used specially on high risk-prone heart attack patients such as those with left ventricular dysfunction and continuing cardiac ischaemia.
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ACE Inhibitor Therapy-This therapy is used on those patients, who, following a massive heart attack seem to die any moment. It reduces the heart failure and decreases ventricular remodelling. It should be applied on patient with in minimum 24 hours and maximum 48 hours of the massive heart attack.
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Statin Therapy-It is used to reduce the chances of massive heart attack leading to morbidity and death following the heart failure.
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Omega-3 Fatty Acids-It is commonly found in fish reduces the chances of death following a massive heart attack. It decreases the chances of fatal arrhythmias.
Major Risk Factors Of Massive Heart Attack
- Any person who has suffered a previous heart attack is prone to high risk of massive heart attack. Those who have been suffering from cardiovascular disease earlier become vulnerable to a massive heart attack leading often to death, if timely not controlled.
- Men over 40 and women over 50 are susceptible to massive heart attack.
- High levels of certain blood constituting fats cause massive heart attack.
- Low levels of high density lipoprotein.
- High blood pressure.
- Obesity.
- Chronic kidney disease.
- Excessive alcohol consumption.
- Drug addiction.
- Chronic Anxiety.
- Older age.
- Tobacco smoking.
- Hypercholesterolemia.
- Hyperhomocysteinemia.
- Diabetes.
- Stress.
Remedial Treatment
- Oxygen.
- Aspirin.
- Nitroglycerin or NTG.
- Pain Killers like morphine sulfate.
Devises To Be Used On Heart Patient
- Electrocardiogram (ECG, EKG).
- Chest X-ray.
- Blood tests to detect heart muscle damage.
- Defibrillator.
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hi my dad died of a massive heart attack we no one of his arteries around his heart was blocked but doctors said the other side was still pumping the blood so he could live with it he died in his sleep i would like to no would he have feeling any pain would he of been woken with the pain id be greatful if you could email me thank you
My mother passed on July 25th of a sudden and massive heart attack and it was said that she was not in any pain when she went.
Ps: My condolences
My dad passed away May 22nd of a massive heart attack and said he had absolutely no chest pain- he was asked twice, when he started to “feel funny:”. He only complained of being dizzy before he passed out.
On the way to the hospital while having a herat attack my father smoked a cigarette. Do you think this is what killed him. i cant help m,yself but to hink if his girl friend had stopped him he may be alive.
Amber I cant say for sure cause I am not a Dr, But I do believe that smoking could of made it come on a bit stronger and faster, Since everything I have read lately says that smoking tightens you areteries so if he already had something going on then and he smoked it cigarett I believe it sure could of made it worse. My mom passed away Oct 31 from a massive heart attack, she was smoking a cigarett when she passed and I believe that is what pushed her over the edge also. So my advise to anyone that smokes is to quit for your self..
No, the damage was already done. Sorry
No, the girlfriend stopping him from that last cig wouldn’t have stopped the heart attack. She probably couldn’t have stopped him from smoking it anyway. I have just been released from the hospital from having a massive heart attack, shouldn’t be alive, and I have always said I would die with a cig in my mouth. I did. Now I never want to see another one of them. Don’t blame the girlfriend for the bad habit your father had. It was his fault, not hers.
my friend, 33 years old, died 2 days ago of a massive heart attack, in his sleep…..how is that possible!!! 2 days before he went to a heart doctor who said that his heart is fine, and he might want to check his stomach…???!!!
I am trying to find out what is the technical name for a massive heart attack is it amyocardial infarction thrombosis? that is what is listed as my fathers cause of death the 6th of Aug. He has never had heart problems before and when he went to heart dr . last said he was fine… but trying to put some closure to all this and needed some answers … email would be great
Hi so sorry to hear about this, my mum had a massive heart attack 1 year ago, she is looking great and she is out more than ever as a matter of fact she looks fantastic, this was due to a small blood clot near her heart, my father was diagnosed with gullet cancer 2 days after this happened to my mother, I would say due to stress that my mother had the massive heart attack mainly caused by worrying about my dad because he would not go near a Dr although he was losing weight and would not be persuaded, so 2 factors, stress and small blood clot, my mother had only chest pains like indegestion for about 1 hr before I phoned ambulance and she had a stent put in within an hour and was fully waken throughout the process,stayed in hospital for about 1 week readmitted with angina within 2wks but doing well now. My Dad died within 5mths.
Myocardial Infarction is a heart attack. Thrombosis is another term for clot and what it means is that a clot plugged up an artery in the heart causing a massive heart attack and heart death in the area of the heart that that artery feeds.
Mycardal infarction thrombosis is a blood clot blocking a coronary artery causing heart attack.
My father in law passed yesterday from this. I was looking up the words MASSIVE HEART ATTACK to better understand why this man was gone. Seems unreal to suddenly just be gone. He, too , had JUST been told by his doctor he was “doing great” and his cholesterol was good, sugar was good…It is hard to understand. I am sad to read the posts ~ so many young people~ mine was just 62 and had retired recently. Had begun enjoying it! Boating, fishing, hunting~ luckily, he was home that day as was his wife who was with him. He died before the paramedics came, she thinks. His was fast, came in, said take me to the hospital~ then said, no call paramedics. While she was calling or dressing, she heard him cry out and fall. When she came in the room, he was already turning blue and unresponsive. Very sad.
I am glad he was not alone, or driving, or fishing. Life changes in an instant.
We are not ever ready, are we?
My best wishes to all who have some to this site, and prayers going up to those who have passed away too soon. Thanks~
Sorry to hear about your father in law. My father died at age 37 from his second heart attack. I have just survived my second (I am 54). I thought I was safe because I don’t smoke like he did. But, diet and stress almost did me in. There are numerous outstanding books that I have now read on preventing heart disease. I was shocked to learn how prevetable most heart attacks are. Have changed my lifestyle dramatically these past two months since my most recent “event”. Please read up on these dramatic effects of diet, exercise and stress. this stuff should be taught in schools. Too many people are unaware of just how preventable thsi is. In many cultures around the world heart disease does not even exist, until those people migrate to a wester culture and pick up our bad habbits and then become at risk themselves. Good luck to you.
My father passed away suddenly Wednesday November 11th around 7:30 am of a heart attack. My mother found him lying on the floor of the bedroom and tried CPR but had no idea how long he had been there. He apparently fell getting out of bed and had a bruise on his face. The thought of him lying there in pain is absolutely crushing me, I am heartbroken and really looking for answers. When the paramedics arrived they worked on him for 45 minutes between the ride to the hospital and actually at the hospital so I guess it is my hope he wasn’t lying there very long. My real question is, after you have a massive heart attack like this and fall, do you pass out right away?
Heartbroken in Ohio
My Dad just passed away Friday November 20,2009 with a Massive Heart Attack. He was at his sister’s after going to a follow up for his eye surgery.He was complaining of shortness of breath. My uncle popped the air down and put a fan on him and gave him his inhaler.He told my uncle he felt better;then my uncle went to take his medications and less than a few minutes my Dad died.No noise from him at all.He was sitting in a chair.He had high blood pressure, high cholesterol, over weight,and was diabetic,lung problems. The main thing was he did not take care of himself like the doctor had told him.When a doctor tells you to walk for a few minutes a day,loose weight and watch your diet;take heed and do it. The doctor told my brother that our Dad did not suffer during the attack.He did not complain of chest pains or pains down the arm.
I know that our days are numbered and only God knows how long we have on this planet and we need to live our lives as pure as possible.
May everyone who is the surviving family have peace knowing that our loved ones are not suffering anymore with the ailments of which lead up to the attack.
Surreal in TEXAS
Please accept my most heartfelt sympathy to you and your family. Having lost my dad just 9 days before you I feel as though we are both probably in the same place right about now. My dad’s doctor told him to get a defibulator but my dad refused, thought he could beat it on his own. I was just upstairs with my mother who is now staying with us telling her over and over again that it’s not her fault he would not follow the doctors orders. She somehow blames herself and believes that if she nagged him enough he would finally give in. Two days before this happened he told me she was driving him crazy with all the nagging. Bottom line, do whatever is necessary to keep yourself healthy. Stay strong and know complete strangers are praying for you!
Hello All,
My Dad was diagnosed with Congestive Heart Failure last January. After being in the hospital for a week…he was showing progress and was allowed to come home. His doctors said that he wasn’t a candidate for a heart attack. The news scared all of us and my Pops started eating better and living a healthy lifestyle. He lost his battle and suddenly passed away on October 5th, 2009 around 10:28pm in his car in the parking lot of his job. I had just talked to him at 10:20 and he told me he was on his way home from work. From the moment we said goodbye he died minutes later. I’m only 29 and I feel cheated. My Dad will never get to give me away at my wedding or see his grandchildren. I miss my Dad so much. I don’t know how I’m going to get through the holidays. Next week is Christmas and I don’t feel like celebrating. I am so sorry for everyone else’s loss…let’s all stay strong.
Also Heartbroken in Ohio,
Robin
Robin,
I know exactly how you feel. My father (he was 54) passed away December 3rd of a heart attack. I am only 21 years old. After it sunk in I began crying to my mother about how he won’t be able to see me on my wedding day or see his grandchildren. My father didn’t know he had a heart condition so when I got this horrible news it was the biggest shock of my life. I will keep you in my prayers. Keep your head up, I’m sure your daddy wouldn’t want to see you cry.
Sincerely,
Vanessa
Robin,
Since you’re from Ohio as well you may relate to this. I live near the Cleveland area and find it especially troublesome that my dad died of a heart attack so near to the worlds #1 hear care center. The Cleveland Clinic treats patients from all over the world and I just feel like we should have done more to get him back to see his doctor. I guess it’s a bit of remorse but he made up his mind that he did not want a defibulator. However, I still have guilty feelings of not pushing harder. I do understand you feeling cheated, you’re young and have a lot of life experiences ahead of you. Keep your dad in your thoughts and carry a picture with you, this way he’s never far from your heart.
I am a funeral director and had an attack myself. Yes they do pass out often before they hit the floor. I have witness death in this way. The pain is for seconds then they are gone. He will be in a better place, safe and watching you so be at peace about it. God bless X
My gran found my grandad lying on the bedroom floor too. The doctor said he died of massive heart attack at approx 1.30am, she found him at 7.10am(they slept in seperate rooms) he was already cold and blue. I saw him before the undertakers took him away. I keep going over the circumstances (he was 76 but relatively healthy) as I was meant to stay at thier house that nyt and didnt. I ask myself if it would have been different i may have heard him or it myt not have happened. I can relate to the pain you are going through its killing me thinking of him lying there all nyt waiting to be found, I pray it was quick and he was not crying out for help and no one heard him. My gran is in a retched state she cannot get the image of him lying there out of her head. I wish you all the best and its a comfort to know there are others all over the world with the same questions i am xx
I want to begin by saying I am so sorry for all of your losses.
My Mother died unexpectedly on Jan. 25, 2010 two days after walking through Tower City in Downtown Cleveland looking better than she had ever looked pushing her great-grandson in a stroller. I found her Monday afternoon face down on her bedroom floor. Face down and her face was purple. She lived with me for 6 months. I did not hear her fall. I too cannot get the scene out of my mind and all of the what ifs. She complained about having food poisioning the evening before and I asked her if she wanted to go to the hospital. She said no and I wish I would have MADE HER.
She was only 75. She did make a comment at Christmas that it may be her last and I yelled at her…and it was. Women have such different symptoms then men. feeling sick is one and she had all of the symptoms and I was too stupid to pick up on them. I wore a heart monitor for 30 days over the fall because I thought I was having heart problems…I read up on it but mine was only stress. I should have known. The only comfort I have is that she is now with the love of her life who she missed terribly. He passed away 4 years ago this April. Again I am so sorry for all of you that have lost. I understand.
I felt very weak and felt like passing out, I vomitted, and just had no strenghth. I would come in and out of it, through out everything, so there is a lot I do not remember but, if it is any consolation, the rememberence of the pain in minimal. I am not sure, but with a fall, the paaing out could very well have happened quicker.
Hi Michelle,
My father passed away suddenly of a massive heart attack on 2/4/10. He was only 62 years old as well. I am in complete shock and heart broken. I spoke with him at 4pm and by 7:53pm he was pronounced dead. He was scheduled to have a heart scan on 2/23. Never made it. He had been to the hospital recently complaining of chest pains and they found nothing wrong. I am sorry to all those on this site who have lost their loved ones. God bless each of you while you grieve.
Deanna
John 3:16
Thank you so much for your post my father past away suddenly while working on a tile job at the age of 63. He smoked but just had been to the doctor and had gotten a clean bill of health he had no heart conditions but was warned to stop smoking my Daddy was a wonderful and kind man and me and my husband and children and family will miss him words cannot describe. He was doing tile work in a house and the owners had to leave when they returned after 7:00 PM they found my dad still in a work work position on his knees with a tool in his hands with his head bent. I have to beleive that God took him swiftly with no pain. The police officer said he did not have a look of pain to his face but rather peaceful. My heart is broken to think that he died alone and nobody there to help him I keep on saying if only someone was there he would still be there but I believe it was so fast that even if someone was there they would have not been able to do anything. My prayers are with you also it never is easy and they say it will get better but I have an irreplacable hole in my heart that will never be filled. God Bless you
Thionil
I lost my husband, age 59. of almost 25 years on April 30. He was healthly, full of energy. He had complained for a couple of months about not being able to “burp”. I tried to get him to go to the doctor,he told me it was just where he was drinking too much coffee and diet cokes. He went for a week that he didn’t take the coffee to work with it and the problem went away.He was careful when he cooked, yes he smoked and we loved our beer, but it was like a couple at a time. We had flown to ky to see my dad becuase he was having heart problems. We lived in florida. We hadn’t even been back home 72 hours when my Mike had his massive heart attack. I was in the dining room with him, and he was backed up to the corner of a wall, rubbing his back like he normally did, so he could burp. He told me all he needed was one more good one…he stepped away from the wall and said “awwwwwwww” and we laughed and talked about it. I went into our bathroom, just a few feet away, to get ready for work.. i was only in there 1-2 minutes, I heard a sound like he was snoring ( he always snored LOUD). then i heard the sound a second time and wondered how he had gone to sleep so fast. I came around the corner asking him what he was doing..the last thing I expected was to find him laying on the floor. He had taken about 20 steps from the croner of the wall to the fridge and maybe 10 steps back, and fell. i watched him turn purple right in front of me while one of our friends did cpr on him. The EMT’s finally got there, but I knew he was gone. He had only taken like 2 more deep gasps, or that was what i thought they were, the neighbor told me later that he had done mouth to mouth even though 911 said not to. The neighbor said the “gasps” i heard was the air just coming back out. Mike didn’t call out or anything. But a lot of all the post on here has answered a lot of questions for me. Mike went the way he wanted,he always said he wanted to go fast. So for some of you…please know nothing probably could have been done even if someone HAD been with them, or if you Had stayed the night, or Had heard them fall. Mike died on our dining room floor, with our neighbor/his friend giving him every heart compression he could do. I didn’t know it at the time, that after we got back from the emergency room, I cleanded up what I thought was water off the florr, but it was where Mike urninated when he left this world for a better place..and yes I cry every day and night..God got His angel back that day that he loaned me for 25 wonderful,loving years.
Michelle,
In same position, my father in law passed on yesterday, much to the shock of the rest of the family. Like yours, he had also just retired. My only regret is not having to show more concern to him by asking about his health but they were so healthy up to the day they leave us.
my husband to be in september had a massive heart attack yesterday in the garden had no signes at all and he had just been to the doctore a few days before i carnt believe it dont seem reall i miss him so much it hurts
My father (57) also passed away from a “massive heart attack” on June 19th. it’s been 4 months and it still doesnt make sense. what do you mean, he’s dead? i too have the question of – did he feel any pain? was it quick? he had been out golfing for the day and was at a restaurant with friends afterwards when it happened. he went outside to call my mother actually to let her know where he was and it happened when he was on the phone with her. aweful. i dont know if he died instantly or what. i hate not knowing. he certainly did not lead the healthiest lifestyle. he was a 2pack a day smoker for 30+ years and ate takeout a lot. so who knows. its just frustrating knowing this could have been prevented if he took better care of himself. when does it get easier??
My dad’s wife of 22 days passed away on October 26 of a massive heart attack she was only 47. . They had only been together for 5 months. There was no history of her having any heart problems. We as a family are just trying to understand why/how could this happen??
Main thing is that there is no symptom of this attack. How can one know that he/she can die today because of this problem..? Does anyone know the answer? I have seen health conscious person dying at not so old age beacuse of MASSIVE HEART ATTACK.
My 32 year old brother in law had a massive heart attack a couple of days ago. Thanks to the Dr’s and Nurses and his will to stay alive for his pregnant wife he survived. Turned out he had a Coronary Heart Disease that didnt know he had. This can happen at any age people.. Make every day count
My father died of a massive heart attack, so we think, on April 24,2009. My mother found him lying on the kitchen floor already gone. We don’t know how long he was lying there but it looked like he hit the ground hard and I guess I want to know for myself if he may have felt any pain before he went. His dad (my grandfather) also died from a heart attack when he was 39 and my dad was 2 years old. I know it’s hereditary so should I be concerned? I am still struggling to cope with losing him so suddenly not being able to say anything or see him before he died. Any encouraging words?
Sounds like our situations are very similar. What is helping me right now is that my dad knew I loved him. We spent a lot of time together alone, and as an entire family. I saw him Sunday night for dinner and he passed when I was out of town for work on Wednesday. I would say to you to know that your father loved you and that he knew you too loved him. From what I understand a person passes out from a massive heart attack and then falls if they were standing. There is no pain after passing out, much like there is no pain after receiving anesthesia for surgery. Still, it pains me to know my father fell and how long he was actually alive while lying there. If you have any early grief stage advice for me I certainly welcome it. Stay strong and live for today. A passge I’ve liked since high school and it certainly has even more meaning to me now.
The clock of life is wound but once
And no man has the power
To tell just where the hands will stop,
At late or early hour.
To lose one’s wealth is sad indeed,
To lose one’s health is more.
To lose one’s soul is such a loss
As no man can restore.
The present only is our own.
Live, love, toil with a will.
Place no faith in ‘tomorrow’
For the clock may then be still.
Robert H Smith
Dan, I wish I could offer u some early grieving advice, but I believe we all find our best way to grieve a loved one, I lost my sister in Dec of 2004 and now I lost my mom Oct 31 2009 to a missive heart attack, and like u have lots of questions and I just pray that my mom didnt lay their and suffer, but what kills me the most is that she was alone dead on her floor for like 18hrs that tears me up. I pray she didnt suffer at any during that time and I have not yet found peace in my self about that. I do believe with heart attacks like that they go fast and with my mom u could tell she had. but even though her body didnt move after she fell I dont know what her brain was doing:( and that troubles me. I just try my best to rest in the fact that she is in a better place now. I would like to be able to talk to people more I think talking about it helps and having people who understand what you are going through. ANd just rember would your dad want u to be sad and depressed? Or would he want u to rember the good things and have a smile on your face?
I am with you Kendra I lost my mom on Halloween night, she was on the computer with me and all of a sudden didn’t answer my im’s and I thought maybe she got distracted but suddenly found out the next day that she had passed around 6:30 the night before and after putting things together realized she had passed while on the computer with me, It hit her so sudden that she just fell to the ground next to the comptuer and she was face down, I believe she was gettin up to answer the door for trick or treaters, and just so happens she was smoking a cigarett at the same time, so after lots of research and talking to people I believe that smoking can cause a massive coronary heart attack which is what my mom suffered from at 58 yo. it came as a major surprise since she was otherwise healthy was just up in ak a coupel mo’s ago hiking with me and looked great and hiked weekly there in Co. An now im worried becuase it is hereditary .It is very hard to just accept it that they are gone when there was nothing apparetnly wrong with them, but I try and look at it as if she was to survie the heart attack but was limited and had bodily problems as a result of it, wasn’t how my mom would of liked to live, and I am pretty sure being in the medical field that it’s a very instant death and I dont believe they feel any pain at all. ” if that is any confort to either of you Kendera or Dan. It is still very new for me and very painful but like u guys I want answers WHY. She was’nt ill..
Angie/Kendra,
I too am willing to talk at any time as it seems to help quite a bit. I am having extreme feelings of guilt right now. I have been worried about my father dying since I was about 14, I am now 40. I guess this si the time when I began to realize that people I love would eventually die and leave me. The problem right now is this, I always figured that this event would hit me harder than any of my three siblings. Right now I feel emotionless, sad, but no crying. For the first 3-4 days I cried a lot and I guess somehow equate crying with true grief. My brother asked me this, “what is the first thing you think of when you wake up in the morning?” I told him dad. He said we all grieve in our own way and there is no right or wrong course to take. I suppose he is right but it doesn’t seem to make me feel any better. What are you both experiencing? How are your emotions? Hopefully you both have a strong network of family or friends to help see you through this life changing event. The world just seems colder now to me. Are either of you feeling any sort of guilt or remorse?
Dan,
I am with u I cried alot probly the fist coupel of weeks and now I believe I am in the denial stage, cause I dont want to believe it. But then I have days like yesterday when I really needed someone to talk to and I wanted to just pick up the phone and talk to my mom and she wasn’t there:( I feel so bad for my dad, he is just 49yo and now he is left all alone in the big house she set all up so everywhere he turns there is a constant memory of my mom, Not that its a bad thing but It can bring things all back up and how can he move on like that. I have 100′s of questions that will never be answered. I would love to chat but its probly much easeir if you just straight e-mail me I forget to get on here qtrhrsluvr2000@yahoo.com is my e-mail. I believe talking about your feelings is the key to making it through this, and rembering your dad wouldn’t want to see you sad and depressed all the time, he would want you to rember the good times and smile when you think of them and him. I know its hard with the holidays approaching and in 1994 I lost my sister Dec 16th so that’s another hard day approaching:( I always talk to my mom, I know it sounds funny but I think she can hear me, so when u wake up in the am and think about your dad, talk to him even if it’s silent thought he still hears them:) go ahead and e-mail me if you like..Hope you have a great week.
Do you think yoga helps to avoid sudden cardiac death?
Depends on family history, lifestyle, diet, pre existing injury and the extent of the cardiovascular exercise you are deriving from the yoga. The heart is a muscle and needs to be exercised like any other muscle, isn’t yoga mostly stretching?
It’s all about heredity, diet, exercise, previous injury and overall lifestyle. The heart is a muscle and like any other needs to be exercised through cardiovascular exercise. Isn’t yoga mostly stretching?
HI IM JUSTING WRITING TO LET EVERYONE KNOW THAT THIS IS A VERY SERIOUS DISEASE! I JUST LOST MY BROTHER-IN-LAW A FEW MONTHS AGO WHO WAS 45 YEARS OLD IN GOOD SHAPE AND HAD MORE ENERGY THAN ME AND HIS BROTHER. WE HAD NO IDEA OF HIM EVER BEING SICK OR DID HE. HE LIVED WITH US FOR 9 YEARS WITH NO COMPLICATIONS. ALSO A 1 YEAR FROM NOW I LOST MY MOTHER DUE TO THE SAME DISEASE.BUT SHE DID HAVE ALOT OF MEDICAL PROBLEMS AD SHE WAS ONLY 55 WHEN SHE DIED. I STILL SIT HERE AND WONDER IF THERE WAS ANYTHING I COULD HAVE DONE BECAUSE HE PAST AWAY IN HIS SLEEP AND I FOUND HIM JUST LAYING THERE. THE PARAMEDICS TOLD ME IT WAS MASSIVE HE WENT FAST I JUST WONDER IF HE FELT ANY PAIN AND IF ONE US WOULD HAVE BEEN AROUND IF HE WOULD STILL BE HERE TODAY!
Hi Dan, I lost my beloved Father (Age 64) to a Massive Heart Attack Dec 27, 2008. I am still absolutely devastated and the silent tears still fall down my face. I miss him more than ever and long to hear his laugh. The one year anniversary is approaching fast and I can tell you that time seems to just keep going and I feel like I am just standing still. At this point (nearly one year on) I can also tell you that I still desperately grieve, however instead of surviving minute to minute and hour to hour, I now can live my life day to day and sometimes even go three days without tears or possible depression. I have only recently began to talk about it and try to speak to my children about their Poppa so that he lives on through us all. I will never understand the ‘God deciding it is our time to go’ theory and really have no interest whatsoever in the whole thing. Having lost a sister who was 6 years old and suffered from immense pain prior to this how could it possibly be her time to go, why would he have created her in the first place! Anyway I was 8 at the time and made my mind up way back then. I just know that losing a loved one is the hardest thing in the world but I am hoping that talking is a possible way of learning to cope with it all.
I do wish you peace, especially this time of year. I am mostly worried for my mother who has not made much progress at all. It has only been 5 weeks and they were married for 49 years so I beleive that is somewhat normal but she keeps saying she cannot go on, and she is only 69. We are going to try to get her to go and talk to a grief counsleor. Virginia, I hope you take comfort in knowing that your dad made such an impression in your life and obviously touched you deeply. he knows you loved him and for a father, what else can you ask for? I will keep you in my prayers during this difficult time and hope the future brings you some comfort and peace.
I find talking about it seems to help at times, and then sometimes i don’t want to talk at all. I guess I still really dont beleive it has happened and that i will never see him again. I just told my wife yesterday that the hardest thing for me to cope with is the thought that I can live another 50 years and still never see my dad again.
I lost my husband due to a massive heart attack on December 7th, 2009. I am still in shock. He was only 37 years old. What shocks me still is that when we made it to the hospital via ambulance he was stable but complaining that he was having trouible breating. Just before the medical staff got him ready for the cath lab to determine the exact location of the blocakage they lost his pulse and was never able to get it back. He was gone that fast. Please pray for me and my 8 year old son who misses his dad so much..
Winifred,
I cannot imagine the pain you must be feeling right now. I am absolutely heartbroken to hear an 8 year old boy lost his dad. I know how hard it is for me right now and I am 40 with lots of fond memories to look back on. I will include you and your son in my prayers and hope you find peace.
Winifred, I have a 16 year old at home and also lost my husband last February. I am still in shock. I feel for you. I couldn’t celebrate christmas. My son didn’t want to either. One thing no one mentions here is vomiting. When I found my hisband and tried cpr I couldn’t clear his air ways due to vomit. He fell in the yard minutes after I walked away from him to go in the house. I went looking for him 45 minutes later and it was clear he hit the ground hard. His back that morning was ice cold and I told him it concerned me… but he shrugged it off. He seemed fine otherwise. Both my son and I tried to revive him for a good 20 minutes when paramedics arrived. But I knew somehow he was gone. Hospital said he’d been gone 45 minutes when I found him. The exact time I walked away to go in the house earlier. Devastating is the only word I can come up with. The love of my life and my best friend gone in a flash. My dad died when I was 14 on February 7th on a saturday. My husband died Feb 1st on a sunday. I pray for you and all here. If you need to talk or need a shoulder write me at suzec@cox.net. I’ve had no family or support system here, and I wouldn’t wish that on anyone. Friends left me high and dry not wanting to deal with the weight of this loss. It scares people I guess. Not very good friends. It’s been a devastating year. I hope you survive this with more moral, financial and family support than you can stand. Ultimately though I think you feel alone no matter whose around. It leaves quite a void.
Shame on the people that claimed to be your friends, to abandon you in such a manner. You are right, though, not many speak of vomitting. Nasea is a factor in a heart attack and there are many other symptoms we should all look at adn study. The big one can be avoided if we just try.
My dad just died from a massive heart attack I was told, he had blood coming out his noise and mouth is that one of the signs for a massive heart attack?
Travis, that actually sounds like another organ failing, like liver failure. I don’t think its a sign for MHA but it could MHA could definately preceed that.
My Dad had the same thing happening except he was in the hospital and they said it was from all of the blood thinners. He was 64 and left me on May, 21, 2010 at 11:27 pm.
hi. i lost my dad at age 48 – january 25, 1995 . he had a massive heart attack at home. he woke up saying his cheat was hurting at 4am and then he went to the bathroom and threw up and i heard a loud noise and he fell. i heard him fall 2 times. the ambulance took forever to get here. it really sucks losing a loved one that way and it’s very scary. since i have to take beta blockers now since 2006 cause i had what they call svt and i get skipped beats and palpitations. why do they say they are not dangerous.? can’t they cause this too?
SVT is often caused by an underlying heart condition. Although SVT is generally not life-threatening in an otherwise normal heart. So I’ve been told. But I’m beginning to question how on the ball doctors are. I have both the tricusip and mitral valves prolapsed with sometimes severe symptoms and they tell me it’s not a big deal. Always question what you’re told. It never hurts to get a second opinion. I don’t know your age but I would google it.
A close family friend died on Saturday January 16, 2010 from a massive heart attack.
He was on a hunting trip with some friends when he suddenly fell to the ground. His friend did CPR but no response so they took him to a hospital. But he had died when he hit the ground. My daughter and son went to school and church with this young man. My son worked with him for about 7 years. He was 41 years old. Our family feels so bad for his family. His daughter is a high school senior and he will not be at her graduation. This young man did not smoke or drink. He wasn’t overweight and lived a healthy lifestyle. His sister said he had high cholestrol and so does she. She is underweight and doesn’t smoke and rarely drinks. So living the healthy lifestyle isn’t always enough.
I can feel everyones pain from losing their loved ones. My mother died of brain cancer and it was really bad but we had the chance to say our good-byes and to spend some time together. We went on 2 long trips and put 20 years of living into 10 months. But she suffered a lot in those last few months.
God bless everyone.
hello,
my mom was suddenly attack in heart disease,when we take him to a doctor,he said yr mom affected into massive heart disease by some test.now mom is somewhat well,u pray for my mom.
All, I have just yesterday been released from the hospital. I was resting on the couch after a half hour of shoveling snow. About fifteen minuets into the rest I started to have a lot of pressure in the chest area. I knew this was the initial stage of a heart attact, I started to drive myself to the hospital, a 10 Minuet drive. I started to get a lot o pain in my chest, neck and left arm. I lost control of my car about 100 yards from the hospital and was stuck in the snow. I knew I had to get to the hospital and because of the recent snow there was no person around. I opened the car door and struggled out to the road. I kept thinking God please let me live to see my children and family again. The pain got worse and I struggled to stay on my feet. My steps were very slow now and the paid got worse. I saw a car coming and stood in the middle of the road. A black man was driving and I struggled to let him know I needed the emergency room. He helped me into the car and in a few minuets nurses in the ER had me hooked with tubes and iv’s. In just a few minuets the pain was diminished and I started to feel a lot better. I remember telling the nurse Sharon, you saved my life and she responded I just did my job. The following day I was transferred to another hospital for a catheazation. My doctor found only a very small blockage in an area that he said he could take care of with medication. He could find no damage or other problems in the heart. Now I am left to wonder did he miss something? How could I have had so much pain, almost crippling and still no sign of a heart attack? The pain was almost unbearable but he said there is nothing to worry about? I don’t know what to think..I am worried now that there will be a next time soon and I don’t know what to do..Do I need to change Dr’s?…..
i lost my father on 14th jan 2010. 7th jan i came back home and was surprised to see my dad in a miserable state. he was having gastric trouble. so he called a doctor up who suggested medicine for his stomach pain. it dint work. then he called another doctor who suggested another medicine and asked us to watch for 2 hrs, and it dint work. None of us through this ordeal understood that it was a heart attack, finally he was admitted in the hospital after about 4 hrs . next day he seemed much better to us. but then on 8th night he was put into CCU. multiple organs of his were damaged, with lungs filled with fluid. so no surgery could be performed till he recovered. on 14th jan he had recovered quite well and surgery could be performed after a few hours, and there i was talkin with him and he suddenly said giddiness and then stopped talkin, when i asked him whether he was feeling weak he could just nod. and the doctors tried to revive him, but failed and the unthinkable happened. he was just 54 and i am 24. i still dont understand why all this happened. i had never imagined my dad could get a heart attack. it has shattered me. i have seen my dad die in front of me. Untimely death is a curse.
I am Grace I lost my husband on the 12th of August 2011. On the 8th of August my husband had the same gastric symptoms like your father. We called the doctor he came as suggested some tablets and some medicine for my husband high blood pressure. Than after an hour the chest pain started we called the doctor and took my husbnad to the hospital where he was diognised with a heart attack. He reached the hospital and he was in the instensive care for three days during which they found that he had two vessels damaged. One blocked 90% and need 2 stents and the other needs medicine. Unfortunetly he had a fever and the doctors said they cannot put the stempt until he recovers from fever. On Friday 12th August he was sitting in the hospital room and was in a very good condition. The temperature started to go down and I was talking to him when he had a severe heart attack that stopped him from breathing and I lost him at the age of 52. I am suffering a lot of his death with my 20 years and 17 years old boys. I am still wondering why they have not put the stents for him only because of the fever they could have saved his life. Pray with us please and if someone has any explanation pls. share it with me.
i had a close cousin die feb.6 we dont know what it was from but some people say it was a heart attack but he had thrown up a lot of brown stuff is that a heart attack?
please if you get the answer to that let me know…….My heart is forever broken
My finance just died March 7, 2010 practically in my arms of a massive heart attack at the age of 43 we were to get married July 25,2010 his birthday is June 8…I am completely in shock and pray that he was not in pain. I don’t wish to reveal how it all happen cause its a memory on my head that I wish to forget. They meaning medical examiner said his hear was so bad and that he died along with an anorizim.. it;s just a nightmare wish I had answers cause just like above there was absolutely no clue to this..All of a sudden
Barbara
I do hope this is not you and just someone who shares your name?
If this is Barbara from Vandon House old days, please get in touch.
I was only looking for old names in search engine, as I had just got in touch with Tom for the first time in ages.
Barbara, you must be devastated. I am so so sorry for your loss.
I am here if you need a chat. I still have my old mobile number.
Take care
Much love
Terri
I just lost my father in law two weeks ago to a massive heart attack at the age of 63. He was a very active man who worked two jobs. He did smoke 3 or 4 packs of cigaretts per day, drank coffee and pepsi all the time. He was not a complainer and if he would have been sick, he wouldn’t have mentioned it. That is the sad part. My husband talked to him the night before and said he sounded tired, but didn’t think anything about it. He got up on Sunday morning, had his smoke, coffee and morning talk with my mother in law. He was a real estate agent and had to show property around 12:30 on sunday. He was at the office alone when this happened. He had printed off his listings at 11:00 and he was on his cell phone at 11:15, after that there were missed calls. He wasn’t found until around 1:00. He was laying face down on the floor with his hand clenched to his chest, he had his reading glasses on and during the fall, the glasses broke and cut his face pretty bad and he had a big knot on his head.
We live 2 hours away from him and he and his wife were suppposed to have came to our house on Sat. before his death on Sunday. They didn’t make it due to unexpected work they had to get done. Our daughters birthday was just one week to the day and may have been just the same time of his death. She was born at 12:28. That we will never know. Her last request before his death was to be able to dance with him on her 5th birthday, we had the stomach flu on her birthday and was unable to have her party. It stinks that things happened the way they did. We have 3 children, my husband is a twin and has an older brother with 2 children of his own. Our daughter is the only girl and her paw paw always said that she was “the apple of his eye”….. Although he loved us all and all the grandchildren more than words can say. This man was always smiling, laughing, worked hard, raised 3 amazing boys, loved his wife of 36 years and never failed to tell us how much he loved us and would do anything for us.
I will never forget the phone call my husband got the day his father died. It was horrible, he was my husbands best friend. He knew everything, he was the one my husband called for any advice, he knew how to do everything and if he didnt, he would find someone that did…. The world lost a GREAT MAN when my father in law passed away. This was our first loss in our family and I never knew how much it would change someones life. It has brought us closer together, that is for sure. We are moving those 2 hours away to be where we belong.
My question,just as i have read in most of everyones blogs is: Did he suffer, did he feel pain, did he have time to think about us before he passed, i wonder if he tried to call or reached for his phone and could we have saved him if we had just been there with him. All of these questions will more than likely remain unanswered. But it would be so nice to know.
I firmly believe that he is living thru my baby boy who will be 2 the last day of March. My son was standing in my father in laws kitchen the day before the funeral, looking out the window, it was dark and nobody was outside. My mother in law was watching my son and all of a sudden his face lit up and he smiled, pointed to the window and said “theres paw paw, he said don’t cry”~ That my friend is the holy spirit and was the only thing that made us smile and believe that his spirit still remains. I have always been reluctant to believe in things like that, but I do now.
My husband is so very upset and depressed, the bad thing is that we will never see paw paw again. I can’t quit thinking about all the jokes he told, the laughter we shared, his funny personality and how can that be taken away so quick? Its not fair, its just not fair……. Why do we have to die? Why do we have to lose the ones we love so much?
my father passed away at the age of 29 because of the massive heart attack a per the doctors and i was just one and half year old. he was quite healthy and he didnt use to smoke or drink alcohol.what reason could be possible for the heart attack at such a young age..If anyone knows, please let me know bcoz i was so young at the time of my fathers death, i don’t know exactly what happened at that time…
Hello. My dad died of a massive heart attack 5 years ago. He was only 47. He was asleep in his bed and as far as I know felt fine before he went to sleep. There was someone at home with him.(The person that found him.) I have thought long and hard about this and even have dreams about it. Although my father was a smoker, and a drinker, myself along with a few other family members have question whether or not fowl play was involved. Are there any meds of any sort that enough of it could cause a heart attack? Or something else that I could look into? Please let me know…
AudFC heart attack is EVIL. the questions you are having about your dad are the questions i also had about my dad, but as time flies by we are forced to come in grip with the cruel reality, that he is physically no more, and heart attacks are sudden and take everything away from us, we should just live with this fact
. The foul player here is the FATE and in some cases an unhealthy lifestyle where we take good health for granted, but i wish God would just warn us in difficult ways instead of just destroying our fates like this.
i am sorry for your loss. as i am writing this reply i am just saying you the feelings i harbour for my dad’s death. i deeply empathise with u. hope our dad’s are our guardian angels.
I felt the same way about fowl play. My father died on May, 21, 2010. I know the blame and anger are a part of the grief. I wish I didn’t have those feelings though. Maybe they will go away some day.
Hello everyone. I would first like to say to you all that my heart goes out to you all. Ive lost my mom and dad . My daddy had a heart attact (massive) 1 week before Christmas of 1963. I had talked with him the Friday before, he sounded wonderful. But i knew he was sick. He had had 2 other heart attacks before the Big one. I miss him with all my being, and i do know i”ll see him again 1 day, because he is in a much better place. But its a terrible thing to have to face. My momma passed 2 years ago, they said she had heart problems, and thats what caused her death , but I dont believe what all ive heard about her death. She was my ROSE. She was my everything, I cant bring her back, or go to see her, But shes in my heart until we meet again. It didnt help that my Step Brother , whom she trusted had taken her away and moved her to Tn. and promised her the world. She didnt know what to do, and was scared to death of him and his wife. She and I talked every day. He put her in a nursing home, and for got about her and took everything she had. Well, I guess I got carried away , because this is all about heart desease, I have pac, pvcs, and palpatations at leat 30 tms aday, but my heart doc says im Ok.. My Love and Prayers go out to all of you, and find a good doctor, and live like its your last day every day.
Blessings and Love,
Sandy
Got carried away while typeing as usually. My daddy passed away in 1983 , not 1963. He was walking me to elementry school way back then ! Oh those were the good days, if only we could go back in time. He was the Best !
If anyone whats to leave any suggestions or replys to anything ive written I would love to hear from any of you all. I love people and love to chat and talk. Especially when it can help someones heart and soul , with feeling and Love.
Take care and I do believe we have Garidian Angels, and maybe they are our parents or maybe granpa, or grandma or a child that we may have lost.
Blessing, and Prayers,
Sandy
my dad passed away dec 5th 2009. i found it odd how my mom just sold his car and i saw it driving away and now something is telling me to look up major heart attacks NOW.
but anyway. my dad never had heart problems before this. but he had high cholosterol and he was close to being diabetic, his dad died of a heart at age 63 (close around there lol) he would never take any of his medicines. even when the paramedics came to take him to the ER he hesitated to take 3 aspirin pills. they told us his condition, he wouldve died if no one came earlier. but he died 7 days afterward anyway. they said all his arteries were clogged except one. i remember seeing him in the hospital tied up to all those tubes in the ICU. he was there for 7 days heavily sedated because if he werent he’d be screaming wanting to go home and hed be screaming from the major pain. i still wish i couldve spent more time with him….. at the hospital. even if he didnt respond. he was 56 years old. i miss him terribly. i asked myself why i deserved this…. im 15 and i lost my father.
life does change in an instant.
i dont want to end up like him.
My Dad just passed away a few weeks ago on June 25,2010 of a masssive Heart attack
He was doing what he loved to do, he was golfing with one of his good friends. They were just driving up to the green on the 17th hole to putt and my Dad slumped over onto his friend. His friend drove him up to the club house where 2 of the workers started CPR while waiting for E-unit to get there. They said he never had a pulse. When
I got there they where still working on him. All I could do was scream for them to not stop working on my Dad. My 19 year old son and husband were with me also. its a vision i wish i could remove from my son having to see and to hear me screaming.By the time my mom and sister got there they had pulled th sheet over his face and would not let them see him. It killed me to hear the pain of my mothers screams and watching someone hold her back from my dad. it was such a shock he wasnt sick didnt smoke or drink but did have a few extra pounds on the belly. I cry many times a day. morning and nite are the worst. We were very close, I was Daddys girl. I always knew where he was it was a big joke to him i would always hunt him down and he would laugh and tell me he was 74 years old and he could go where ever he wanted to then laugh and say what do ya need darlin. always happy and with a big smile. We are all in shock. my mom is in a daze. they have been together since she was 14 and my dad 16 i need answers, it doesnt make any since there wasny any pain he felt fine his friend said. he didnt grab his chest or say anything. I know it wont change anything to talk to his Dr. about his last check up. but i feel i just need to talk to someone. To all of you that have lost a loved one my thoughts and prayers go out to you and your familys. I” keep saying to myself over and over I cant believe he is gone, it just doesnt seem real, it just cant be.
Hi Angie,
I am sorry to hear about the loss of your dad. I just lost my dad to a massive heart attack this month on July 4th. I saw that you wanted to contact his doctor, I, too want to contact my dad’s doctor just to see what he has to say, but I don’t know if it will truly answer my questions. I understand your need to have someone to talk to. I feel the same way. I have so many questions and it doesn’t seem like I can find any answers. Think of positive memories and remember the good times.
Hello to everyone who lost someone dear to them:
As I read all the posts my heart goes out to everyone and their families, they are in my prayers. On August 18th while at the shore, my husband received a text message telling him to get over to his boat that there was a big problem. It was raining so hard that day, he immediately dropped what he was doing and ran for the door. It was 3PM. At 3:20PM I started to panic, I changed my clothes, grabbed my pocketbook and suddenly the phone rang. I picked up the phone thinking it was him, it was a nurse from ER. She just said, “hurry over, it’s looks bad, he had a heart attack, we’re getting ready to transport”. I ran for my car and got there as fast as I could, 10 minutes. They kept me in a room until the dr came to talk to me, minutes. All I wanted to do was go to him. He told me that they had brought him back twice and they were currently working on him, it didn’t look good. I immediately went to him along with the doctor. What I saw was approx. 10 nurses,drs and the paramedic standing outside the curtain while there was a room full of more nurses, drs standing next to him. I thank God that I had a few more minutes with him before he passed. What I don’t know is that he heard me talking to him, stroking his face and looking into his eyes while I spoke to him. He was just staring without seeing. He was 62 years old. He had suffered in the past with his health, bad heart but took care of himself as best as he could, meds, dr’s visits, tests, keeping active and still working part-time. I was told by someone who was there that when he got there, what he saw was his boat almost under water, bilge pump clogged, he got so excited, started bailing the water out then just fell over. He started cpr, his wife called 911, paramedics arrived and took over. I was told that it was a massive heart attack. I just wanted to know that he did not experience severe pain, was he conscious and aware?. All I do know for sure is that it appeared he just passed out. My faith tells me he is with God in heaven. I am lost without my husband. He was a great husband, great father, grandfather, and friend to all. He was my rock with a heart of gold. He also had hands of gold. He could do anything. He helped everyone without ever wanting anything back. I told him the day before that I loved him more than anything in the world, hugged and kissed him before he left for work. The next day, the day he died, we had a nice breakfast and lunch…again for everyone who has questions about their loved ones, what they experienced when they died, the only thing we can do is love them with all our hearts and let them know it while they are here on this earth. We will all be together again some day. My prayers are with you
Omg, my heart goes out to you, I just lost my dad 2 weeks ago to a heartattack, suddenly, and i still cant believe it or want to. I too was daddy’s little girl. It’s a pain that cannot be described, its unbelievable and cannot believe that they can just be here one min and gone the next. I feel for you and your mum, my parent to were together from a young age. All the best and take care, day by day xx
I came across this page because my mom too passed away on June 17th 2010 to a massive heart attack. This has been so difficult for me to deal with. Never thought in my life that i would have my mom pass away at 61, im 32. I noticed the other day while at my dads house after reading my moms death cert that she had Coronary heart disease (CHD) for years. I did not know this, but i do know that i always yelled at her for not taking care of herself, no exercise and bad eating habits. I myself have always lived a heathly life style by eating good and hitting the gym 5-6 days a week. Since june 17 i have fallen into a downward spiral of smoking , drinking and eating just about anything. I can go on and on about this, but i just curious to know if she really suffered. My dad called me in panic at 10pm that mom is having a heart attack, nothing i could do being that i live over an hour away, he called 911 and by 10:44pm she had passed away at the hospital in NY. My dad and brother said the cops and medics worked so hard to revive her. She was actually going to see a new heart doctor the next day from what a friend of hers told me at the wake. Was her current doc to blame or was it her bad habits? Or a combo of both? This has all just been a nightmare for me and after reading many of these posts i know im not the only one dealing with this. My dad actually does smoke and has bad eating habits as well, now how do i handle that? Hes stubborn just like my mom was. I dont want to go through this anytime soon! Help!
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Hello All,
the next day we were hanging out watching the Bears lose, and he said im gonna go switch the laundry. No big deal he always did laundry on sundays. He was gone for about ten minuets and I went to go check on him cause he did not answer when I called for him a few times, and he was dead…I screamed and we called 911 I tried to do CPR but I knew he was dead not passed out, it was so scary and hard to even accept that I will not see him again, he was my hero, my friend, my mentor, my buddy, I just adored my dad..I know it sucks and its so hard to understand it but Im also so happy he died the way he did. My dad asked to die that way, I know he wanted it to be fast, painless and in our own home..thats what he got( maybe a lil sooner than expected) but maybe if he lived longer he would have wound up getting a disease that caused him to suffer? IDK but all I know is I totally understand everyones questions and thoughts and feelings about this, I can tell you that no need to worry about them (they are fine now) dont look back and think man i should have or would have or wished I could have, its over. The way it happened was supposed to be that way, death is not something to fear! its hard to deal with it but you can and will 
we will all get through this and I hope my story helped a little
All these stories are very similar in the sense that the truth is the loved one did not suffer..My Dad just passed away Sept 19th 2010. 61 years old of a Massive Heart Attack.My Dad had not been to a Dr. since I think I was a baby im 25 now..He wasnt the healthiest eater, not a lot of exercise, and drank coffee that looked like mud. He was a very happy man though, he enjoyed life the way he wanted to. He did not fear death eather. He feared sickness, he feared hospitals and medicine that had worse side effects than the illness you have! He feared suffering most of all though. The night before my dad passed away he took our whole family to the Toby Keith concert, his favorite concert to see! We had a BLAST. he was so happy
My heart goes out to all of you, losing your dad, a loved one is so hard, very hard, never to be seen again. My thoughts are with you all and reading these sad stories just breaks my heart. Time will heal, I have heard, but i really cannot feel that at the moment. Your dad passed 3 days before mine, how are you feeling?? They are missing so much of our lives now, so sad, so sad. Take care xx
Hello Maddie
How are you and your family going? They say time heals but seriously I am still having bad days as by now i would have had contact with my dad and now there is nothing. How is your mum going? I cant get over the fact that they are gone and never to be seen again. My thoughts are with you and your family. Take care xx
Hi i also lost my dad to a massive heart attack on june 30 2009 he was 40 years old it shocked all of us he was a block layer but also a heavy smoker,and he did not eat very well and he never rested.I am only 25 years old a smoker as well this is something thats gonna always be with me,i am sorry for all of your loses my condolences to each and every one of you
hello everyone i lost my dad on june 30th of 2009 to a massive heart attack he was at work when it happened he was a block layer they found him laying over bricks he was 40 years old the doctors tried to save him but he wouldnt respond to anything they did i seen him laying there that will always be with me that was the hardest thing to see,he was a heavy smoker he didnt eat very well he worked to hard he will be missed dearly.condolences to everyone for your loses its very hard to deal with and they will always be in your hearts
I just lost my dad Wed 22nd September 2010, age 59 of a heart attack, here one min and gone the next, still very hard to believe. I was up with my husband and children visiting my mum and dad on the school holidays. I can still see the visions of my dad lying on the floor in pain and then taking his last painfull breath and gone. I can’t believe it, don’t want to believe it, very sad- devastating. We were very close and he had a lot to do with his 3 grandchildren whom are now very heart broken. My dad. Rest In Peace Dad, I love you and miss you!! It makes you you look at your life very differently
I can’t believe how many people have lost loved ones to a massive heart attack. My dad died in 2007 of one aged 57. He never drank alcohol, was physically very fit and active with a healthy diet however, he was extremely stressed at work for a number of years. I was pregnant at the time and to say he was excited at the prospect of his first grandchild is an understatement! His father had survived a heart attack in his 50′s – so was this hereditery or due to stress alone? How is it possible to go to work one day and never to return? Years later these are the questions still going round in my head. On the day he died he complained of indigestion which seems a common symptom. We are the ones left to mourne such a huge loss but I feel more sorry for my dad as he is missing so much! Best wishes to all of you and you will definitely get the strength from somewhere – be strong. x
Hi All,
My heart goes out to all of you. It’s so very hard to come to any sort of understanding,
when a loved one dies, especially if they are taken suddenly.
Without any warning, April 21, 2009, I received a call with just terrifying news.
My little sister, age 33, was in hospital on life support. She had a heart attack.
When her husband had called from work to find out what she wanted to do for dinner,
her 4 year old son answered the phone. “Where’s Mommy?” Daddy asked.
“On the floor, Daddy. She won’t wake up” replied the little boy.
When I arrived at the hospital, they were still working on stabilizing her. They had chemically paralyzed my sister, so that they could allow her body a chance to heal.
My sister thought she was fat. At least, her man thought so. She gave birth to
several children, was 5 feet and 3 inches, weighed only 130 pounds. He had seen
a little roundness to her belly and thought that she was fat.
To please her husband, she went on a crash diet, not eating any solids, taking diet
pills and drinking energy drinks and being active with the kids. I don’t know if she
had any prior heart problems before this. Even if she didn’t, all that caffeine from the
diet pills and energy drinks as well as not eating solids for 2 or 3 days can do terrible
things to a healthy heart. Add a prescription painkiller for back pain …….
The doctors and nurses were amazing, keeping us informed of each step. I drove back and forth every day for almost 2 weeks before the doctors determined that there was nothing else to do, my sister was brain dead. She had been without oxygen for too long
before help arrived. I watched as the nurse removed the tubes and shut the machine off.
I cried as the life left my little sister’s body. That moment will be forever in my mind.
I, too, hope and pray that my sister did not suffer. It’s a comfort reading your stories, and I thank you for sharing them. My prayers are with you all.
Today was not my day I woke up with body pain arthritis and took motrin to feel better. Anyway, I was returning a seal a meal that I borrowed from my neighbor. Karin and I were chatting, her husband Bill came in see what going on! I was telling him that I am going to take home those yummy crab legs. With out any warnings from where Bill was standing, he collapsed, I told his wife Karin to call 911 and I started CPR which seems like forever for the paramedic to arrive. With those paramedics still preforming CPR I felt that I didn’t do my best!
When Karin came home bravely she told me that Bill had 95% blockages in his upper left heart chamber and because of what I did for Bill his Dr says that I gave him a better chance and its all up to him and GOD.
To answer to some of your questions, I don’t think they feel any pain as to what his Dr. said that his brain shuts down after his heart quivered that is why people collapsed brain is not working. I feel better knowing that I did best as I could saving Bill’s life but the idea of him collapsing in front me and his wife was surreal.
Hi All,
I extend my sincere sympathies to all of you. My Dad died of a massive heart attack at age 79 on Oct 12, 2010. After dinner my Mom heard a crash and ran into the dining room and he was on the floor. The paramedics worked on him for a long time but could not save him. He had some health issues, but was doing well and had recently received a great report from his cardiologist.
I too was concerned about whether he suffered and felt pain before he died. After reading these posts I do feel better knowing he probably didn’t feel any pain, however, I am still very sad. Not being able to say goodbye to my Dad is the hardest thing to accept. I did write him a goodbye letter and told him all the things I would have liked to tell him in person. Putting my words into a letter seemed to help.
I pray for all of you that you will find peace. I am just taking it day by day. I know it is even harder on my Mom since they had been married for 50+ years. I try to keep busy and pray alot to try to ease the pain. I also have put pics of my Dad in each of my rooms and talk to him when I look at the pics.
My grandmother 60 years old at the time SURVIED a Massisve heart attack, Dr.’s said 70% of her heart was dead and only 30% was pumping. This was the result after a 2 part, 2day major spinal back surgery took place. The Dr.’s said the surgery was to much strain for her heart and fell vicitm exactly 1 week later after the surgery. She had no prior history of Blood pressure, cholesterol, any diseases, non smoking she was a very healthy woman up until the massive heart attack. Iam very thankful to have her and I am very sorry for anyones loss due to a massive heart attack. Just remember CPR!
My dad just died Jan 31st, 2011 @ 4:26 a.m. He died in his sleep and they say he died from a massive heart attack. I had an autopsy report done because he had no signs of any heart problems. His girlfriend woke up and tried to wake him up and he was apparently unresponsive. She was taking his blood pressure while he was unresponsive and then she said he suddenly took what seems to be his last breath. Apparently the day before he passed he complained that he thought that he had pneumonia and that he just didn’t feel well. I wish that he had called me and told me, maybe I would have thought to take him in. Maybe I could have saved him. I hope that he wasn’t in any pain. This is so painful. My dad was only 48. I’m only 23 years old and I have my second child on the way and my dad will never get to see him. It breaks my heart. I miss my dad so much. I stay up nights worrying if this is what killed my dad because he had NO signs of any heart problems.
ps. He was going to the doctor a lot with pneumonia… Are pneumonia and massive heart attacks connected in any way?? Any other family members that had pneumonia as well that died from massive heart attacks?
My brother just died from a massive heart attack on January 28, 2011. He was 41. He had just been at the doctors 2 weeks before and had ekg, stress tests, blood work. They found him to have high cholesterol and put him on a statin. Told him everything else was ok. I ask myself how can this happen, but in reading the posts it appears to happen a lot. My brother was shoveling the snow off the roof when he started to get pains in his arms. The friend he was with said he knew a heart attack was coming, though he never had a problem with his heart before. Luckily they got him off the roof, he passed out as he was being bought down. They said he had the attack in the ambulance. They couldnt bring him back. My brother had been diagnosed as having panic attacks, I wonder if they were really angina attacks misdiagnosed. Has anybody else ever had a loved one with panic attacks that turned out to be angina/heart attack? Please email me.
Lost without him!
my brother who was aged just 27 years old,, was died suddenly with massive heart attack , at 3.30 pm in the afternoon.i was shocked by hearing this but iam unable to beleive what doctor said as i dont have idea about the massive heart attack.
My Mother died from a massive heart attack on 22nd January 2011. Her Doctor said she would not have felt any pain, but I find that hard to believe. Surely if it was so severe to kill her she would have felt it?
I really miss her and feel tortured believing she suffered pain in her final minutes.
My father left us on 14th march 2011 because of massive heart attack. My uncle told that he hasnt experinced more pain, who was with my dad at his last minute. But i feel that my dad defnitely had severe pain when he died. Instead of all this my dad has good health. The only bad habit in him is smoking. Is this the only reason for my dad’s death? We are missing him very much.