# Death: Have you ever "missed it by that much"?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 21, 2024, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-have-you-ever-missed-it-by-that-much/1011986 "2024-12-21T19:29:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 22, 2024, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-have-you-ever-missed-it-by-that-much/1011986/24 "2024-12-22T03:26:15Z")

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I’ve mentioned before I woke up at 2 am with horrible crushing chest pain. I was sure I was having a heart attack and wouldn’t survive long enough to make an ambulance call worthwhile. I got out of bed and sat on the couch to die quietly so my gf wouldn’t wake up. I was drenched in sweat. Then the pain stopped.

Since I survived, I thought it wasn’t cardiac. A few nights later it happened again. I assumed it was GERD, so I began drinking Mylanta before bed.

I ignored the episodes for a month, then mentioned it to my gf, who freaked out and forced me to go to my doctor, who freaked out and made me see a cardiologist, who freaked out and diagnosed the episodes as unstable angina with at least one actual infarction.

He put in a stent and I was good as new.

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