Hi, My father is a type 2 diabetic, has been for 25 years and luckily had no issues until recently. His GP seems to know less about diabetes than we do but not an issues so far. This changed 3 weeks ago.
My dad had a massive heart attack. The reason I am telling you is because no one told us about an issue all type 2 diabetics should be aware of. Medication such as ramipril is used by diabetics, however Ramipril and similar drugs can mask the sign of a heart attack. My dad was in distress for 3 days thinking he had bad indigestion. It was actually a heart attack with no pain ( known as a silent heart attack). Has we known this we would have gone to hospital a lot sooner. Dad's ok and with time will have a complete recovery but I just wanted to inform as many people as possible to be aware that your very necessary medication could disguise the symptoms of a heart attack, the symptoms you might present with are similar to that of the signs females need to look for, upset stomach, indigestion, tired... tight chest but no pain.
I don't want to scare anyone, and this is not to freak anyone out but we were really lucky that we got help in time, we were at the doctors for something else when this happened. Had we been at home it might not have been so good because the signs were not there.
To be clear the meds did not cause this, it would have happened anyway, but they did hid the symptoms.
We will be having a conversation with the Dr about what other things could be hidden by the meds - I would suggest you have a similar conversation at your next diabetic appointment. Take care all.
My dad had a massive heart attack. The reason I am telling you is because no one told us about an issue all type 2 diabetics should be aware of. Medication such as ramipril is used by diabetics, however Ramipril and similar drugs can mask the sign of a heart attack. My dad was in distress for 3 days thinking he had bad indigestion. It was actually a heart attack with no pain ( known as a silent heart attack). Has we known this we would have gone to hospital a lot sooner. Dad's ok and with time will have a complete recovery but I just wanted to inform as many people as possible to be aware that your very necessary medication could disguise the symptoms of a heart attack, the symptoms you might present with are similar to that of the signs females need to look for, upset stomach, indigestion, tired... tight chest but no pain.
I don't want to scare anyone, and this is not to freak anyone out but we were really lucky that we got help in time, we were at the doctors for something else when this happened. Had we been at home it might not have been so good because the signs were not there.
To be clear the meds did not cause this, it would have happened anyway, but they did hid the symptoms.
We will be having a conversation with the Dr about what other things could be hidden by the meds - I would suggest you have a similar conversation at your next diabetic appointment. Take care all.