Re: Heart attack help ASAP please
Okay, you need to place your fears in perspective to the account you mention. The young individual you spoke of most likely suffered from familial hypercholesterolemia, which causes an extreme acceleration of the kind of conditions seen in older persons which suffer heart attacks. The condition is extremely rare and other symptoms are present long before the cardiac event actually occurs.
Chronic coughing can be a sign of congestive heart failure, not heart attack. It's important for you to remember as you surf the internet looking for symptoms which match your own, that you're trying to diagnose yourself in the absence of the requisite medical education and training necessary to accurately do so.
In your case, the constant cough is more likely due to post-nasal drip secondary to vasomotor rhinitis, a very common presentation in persons with anxiety. The shortness of breath in your instance is more the case of diaphragmatic spasm, which often prevents the lungs from achieving the deep inspirational breath which produces relaxation. When persons detect this restriction or inability, they begin trying to force a deep breath to occur, which under voluntary action, rarely takes place. People usually try to yawn repeatedly in order to induce the deep breath to occur.
Your description strongly suggests that you're suffering from the physical symptoms of anxiety and nothing more.
You'll be fine. At your young age, you need to be out running after boys rather than worrying about having a heart attack of all things.
Best regards,
Rutheford Rane, MD (ret.)
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