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Interview HA32  

Interview HA32

Age at Interview: 54
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 53
Background: Book-keeper; Separated, 2 grown up children
Brief outline:Heart attack July 2003, in hospital for 6 days. She declined the thrombolytic (clotbuster) drug. Current medication: ramipril, simvastatin, aspirin, metoprolol, GTN


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For the first few months she had panic attacks when she thought she was having another heart attack.

 



Well I had visitors, everybody sort of kept an eye on me without trying to be too obvious. I did have bouts of anxiety and I would go and stay with my mum. My son would take me over there and I'd stay for a few days and then I'd come back when I felt better. 

And apparently, this happens quite a lot with people who are reasonably young having a heart attack, you get these anxiety attacks, which again is this wave of feeling which is similar to the heart attack but, but not quite the same. 

And I would get it for no apparent reason; it was obvious that my brain was doing something that I wasn't really aware of. Then I would feel dreadful and I couldn't, I didn't want to be on my own, so my mum would look after me for a few days and that was nice.
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