I was sent home from the Emergency Room with a misdiagnosis of indigestion (despite presenting with textbook heart attack symptoms like chest pain, sweating, nausea and pain radiating down my left arm) just two weeks before finally being hospitalized with a newly revised diagnosis of ”significant heart disease”.
Heartburn has nothing to do with your heart; it’s a digestive problem. Acidic liquid from your stomach backs up into your esophagus and inflames its lining. But symptoms can appear confusingly similar.
How to tell if you’re having a heart attack or just an attack of simple indigestion?
Here’s how indigestion may be markedly different from a cardiac event:
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