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What Causes Chest Pressure, Breathlessness With Slurring Of Speech?

About a week and a half ago my husband ,who is 62 with high blood pressure, high cholestral, seizure disorder and borderline diabetic, overweight 20 lbs, had incident in which he felt pressure in the middle of his chest and could not take a deep breath. I suggested we go right to the Dr. but he refused. After about and hour he felt better and went about his day. In the late afternoon of this same day it happened again he rested and felt better afterwards. I feel he had some kind of heart attack but he says ,"no, if I had an attack I would know or I'd be dead".
The next day he was talking and he couldn't get this word out all of a sudden like he was slurring and then as fast as it happened it stopped and he was able to speak fine. How do I know if these are serious symptoms or not? Debbie
Thu, 21 Sep 2017
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Hello Debbie,
Please take your husband immediately to your doctor as what he is having is likely episodes of angina and TIA.
So immediately take him to the doctor and get an ECG and Echo. Then depending on the findings, he might need to be hospitalized and need to undergo blood investigation particularly cardiac enzymes.
Also he would need a CT scan or MRI scan of brain depending on the clinical findings.
Probably he will need a coronary angiography also.
Thanks and all the best.
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What Causes Chest Pressure, Breathlessness With Slurring Of Speech?

Hello Debbie, Please take your husband immediately to your doctor as what he is having is likely episodes of angina and TIA. So immediately take him to the doctor and get an ECG and Echo. Then depending on the findings, he might need to be hospitalized and need to undergo blood investigation particularly cardiac enzymes. Also he would need a CT scan or MRI scan of brain depending on the clinical findings. Probably he will need a coronary angiography also. Thanks and all the best.