Hope someone can help us figure this out. We do have a drs. appointment in a week for follow up from hospital.
My husband was rushed to hospital; sweating; no chest pain but tightness; pale as ghost and dizzy and a feeling of doom. EKG showed that he was having a heart attack and ER doctors thought so too; however the angiogram showed good heart, vessels and aorta. However, he did have complications from the angiogram that sent him to ICU but is home and doing fine. Thank Heavens for that.

I am going to try and explain his symptoms as good as I can without going into too much detail:
For a few years now, upon exertion when working in yard, etc.; usually in the heat, but not all the time, he sweats profusly, changing clothes twice sometimes. He drinks water and gatorade. He starts to feeling really bad; pale, voice even sounds strained when he trys to talk and says he hears a gurgling sound coming from his chest sometimes when he feels this way. Just totally doesn't feel well when having this reaction. He has feared it was his heart, but that has now been ruled out.

He does have a benign small nodule on his lung that drs. feel has been there for awhile. We have known it was there about 4 years and have checkups every year and no change.

I am hoping that someone would know an avenue for us to look into to see what might be causing these symptoms. He had a physical less than a year ago. The only problem he had then was blood pressure which he is now taking coreg. (However, he had these symptoms before he even had blood pressure problem)

Hope I haven't totally confused everyone; just wanting to find out what is wrong with him.

Thanks for any information you can pass along.

The Gardner.....Thanks for your reply. Yes, my husband did tell them about the gurgling and they didn't say anything. That sounds so sensible about the heart failure and all. It does sound like that could be it, but do you know, would the angiogram, echogram and all come out good if he was having heart failure? He does have high blood pressure but is trying to keep it under control with coreg and he exercises some but not like he should. He is just at wits end and is worried about himself. His doctor has put him through several test to rule out other causes for his problem, but nothing has shown up except for a bacterial infection which his is currently taking antibotics for. Maybe it was the bacterial infection????? Don't know if it could have caused such an awful episode?, plus he has had this problem off an on for a while.

He is not overweight, although he would like to lose a few pounds. he is about 260 and 6ft 4. He has sleep apnea also and doesn't do anything for it at this time. He tried the machine to sleep with......did not work for him.

I appreciate your reply.