Heartburn Heart Attack
Q: My wife recently had a heart attack caused by angina. She is fine now
and taking a medicine to help her angina. Also she carries nitro tablets
if she has an angina attack.
Since she has an hiatal hernia she gets heart burn occasionally. She is very
concerned that she cannot tell the difference between heart burn pain and
angina pain. She is also affraid if she miss interprets the heart burn pain
and goes to the hospital complaining of angina. She will be embarrassed and
feels it is a waste of everybody's time and money.
How can she reliably tell the difference between heart burn and angina?
can anyone in the group help me please?
A:I don't know. Since angina symptoms manifest so differently how could
anyone determine the difference for sure without going to the ER and
checking it out. Even if she pigged out on food that was sure to give her
heartburn, why would she risk being wrong and possibly dead? If she went
to the ER ten different times with the same symptoms and nine ended up
being heartburn and only one ended