I had a heart problem on Xmas night, I want to understand it-any Medics on?

When I say understand, I mean what I ate and drank that made it happen. My diet is not usually unhealthy. I ended up feeling a bit resentful that I had gone to my sis's and had a huge slap up dinner, because I control my diet usually.

I walked back to get exercise, and there in the morning, and was getting exercise over the Xmas period, so it is not lack of exercise.

I was in bed that night and I felt a seizing up across my upper arms, upper and upper and lower chest, like a constriction, and like people describe heart attacks, I tried to hardly move and the feeling didn't go for a long time, I think I drank water to try and help it. I stayed in bed at an angle lent a bit up, and tried not to move sharply.


I can't recall precisely how long it lasted but I must have got to sleep some hours late and then been better in the morning.


It felt pretty serious.



I will try and tell what I ate as much as I recall.


Almonds, loads.
Pecan pie
Olives.
Bit of prawn.
Beer
Coffee?
Sausage
Turkey
Cream, bacon, Chesnuts, Sprouts.
Tiramisu.
Carrots, again a lot, for the starter too.
At home, I think tow choc almond milks with supplements of vitamins and calcium
An innocent smoothie with vitamin supplements and guarana.

I Think I must have had too many of certain vitamins, if you look at the top there was tons of vitamin E, loads and loads, then vitamin A with carrots.
Loads of meat and then cream for fat.
Guarana, and lots of caffeine, plus alcohol- bad mix of stimulant and depressant?
I've also heard calcium supplements can be bad for the heart if you are not just taking milk.

So the fact of having two drinks with added calcium in, plus the other stress?

Then there is all the vitamins added up, from all the drinks plus the nuts etc.


You can't have too much D or C.


So was it too much vitamin E, A, B of a kind, the guarana and caffeine plus alcohol, the sat fat/ cholesterol, or a combination of all these?

The other thing I thought is that it might be an acid/alkaline balance thing...you might need further questions on that.

Are there any experts or med students in that could help me?

Did you enjoy your day and what were you thinking when you went to sleep/lay in bed?

Such dramatic symptoms are inconsistent with eating normal food, unless you have some sort of allergy to something (the nuts and prawns would be prime suspects here). Do you have any food allergies. Have you ever had a panic attack?

Apart from that, you seem to have lived through it. What did you feel like in the morning? And no-one's going to give you a definitive diagnosis via the internet - if you're worried you need to see your GP.

Sounds like acid reflux more than anything. Certainly nothing to do with your heart and probably has very little to do with vitamin E.

Cyanide poisoning!!!111

Nice of you.

No, no allergies, I eat virtually everything. I've eaten nuts and prawns my whole life.

I think guarana and caffeine, potent stimulants plus beer might not have helped the heart. I also forgot to add baklava, so even more nuts.
So there was masses of vitamin E, and then there was more caffeine in the choc vitamin drinks, and almond and vit E in them too.
And then calcium additions, which I heard a re bad.


I think I have more of a picture now. Masses of vitamin E plus the rest.

Is this holistic health?

I was asking about what I put in my body.

cock?

Well it could be, check your almonds.

An easily offended, thin skinned, infantile homophobe.

Is this the barometer for future generations of doctors?

No wonder this country is clueless.