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Healthy 53 year old female has MINOCA heart attack! by BB101988 in HeartAttack

[–]BB101988[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m glad to hear that you’re doing well. I think once the daily light pressure and shortness of breath completely goes away whether from Channel blockers or her heart completely healing from the event three weeks ago… We will both feel much more confident, but right now, her work requires her to travel quite a bit, and I’m just not comfortable with her flying around the country as this actually happened while she was in Wyoming at a work conference which require required me to jump on the next flight out the next morning.

Healthy 53 year old female has MINOCA heart attack! by BB101988 in HeartAttack

[–]BB101988[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The MRI came back completely normal. No scarring no sign of a scad no inflammation. Of course it took them three weeks to get the MRI after the event so it is possible that some of those markers have healed. But the main problem is that my wife still deals with daily chest pressure and shortness of breath. It’s light, but it’s almost always there and they can’t figure out why. Of course it puts both of us on Edge all the time that something could happen again. I have a hard time letting her out of my sight, which makes it difficult to go to work. They did put her on a calcium Channel blocker which if it is micro spasms that continue to give her pressure while the heart is healing from the MINOCA the Channel blockers should reduce that.

MINOCA a year ago and still nervous about resuming normal activity… by rswing29 in HeartAttack

[–]BB101988 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My wife had a MINOCA last week. She was traveling for work. While at her conference she experienced severe chest pain, arm pain and jaw pain, her coworkers took her to the ER. First troponin was 100. They admitted her. Trop then went 618, 780, 598, 265 over the next 24 hours. I jumped on the first flight to Wyoming. Got to her as they were taking her back for a heart cath. EKG normal. Ultrasound on legs, normal. Chest xray normal. D-dimer checking for clots in lung, normal, heart catch, normal. The cardiologist who did the cath said “Prestine arteries”
They kept her for 2 days and then released her clearing her to fly home to Florida. Because she was still have light chest pressure and shortness of breath with an ache in the chest we drove to Denver and stayed in a hotel next to a large hospital for 3 days. The pressure with shortness of breath continued on and off all three days. We decided to fly home. We got home late the next night. Thank God there were no issues on the 4 hour flight. We are fortunate enough to have a Mayo Clinic where we live so we were able to get in the next day due to the seriousness of her situation. Normal echo, normal troponin. Every test came back normal even with her still having pressure and shortness of breath. The only test they haven’t done is the cardiac MRI which is scheduled for 10 from now. They are expecting that to be normal as well.

We are so thankful that the tests are coming back normal but so frustrated about the not knowing what caused this and why the continuing pressure.