[GWN7]

When is a heart attack (MI) a heart attack (MI)? And not just a "event"?

Is it because I didn't have any of the usual symptoms other than back pain that it's just a "event"?


Saturday I wake up with increased back pain and a general feeling of being unwell. Pain is about a 6. I take a T-3 half a hour later it should be a 1 but it's a 4, still feel like crap.


So I drive myself to the ER where they take my blood and a EKG. My Troponin level is 45 and I have a drooping T- wave. These get me special treatment and I get a bed in the ER where they have me hooked up and take my blood 3 more times over 12 hrs Levels drop to 34, 31 then 28 with no change in the t- wave. The attending says "I don't know what to do with you." I pointed out I was obliviously getting better not worse and I had two 100 lbs dogs at home who needed me and he could use the bed. So send me home. Which he did (I promised if I felt worse to come back).

Today I get a phone call from the head of the implant program. I'm in a study to see if pacemakers actually help and no I don't have one (Group B). She refers to this incident as a "event"

When is a MI a MI and not just a "event"?