Heart Attack HELP!!?

my dad had 5 heart attacks, it seems like every year he gets one around this time. today he came home from work saying he had chest pains and it went through to his back which he know the feeling to be a heart attack but the pains went away about a half hour later. he saying it could have been gas but he is still worried about it. he wont go to the hospital because he says it is useless to go if he does not have pain because that machine that measures electrolyties or something like that(i dont know what it is exactly) will not work if he has no pain. should we take him to the hospital anyway, even though his pain stopped or should we wait until he has pain again??

He is talking about EKG which monitors the heart rate and shows what the heart is doing -- whether it is beating properly. He does need to have this episode checked out. He is probably quite frightened after having had five in the past, I know I would be. Does his doctor have him on nitroglycerine for chest pain. If he does, and if he has taken it according to the directions (one under the tongue, wait five minutes if he still has pain another one under the tongue, wait five minutes and if he stilll has pain repeat yet again. If the pain has not subsided in 15 minutes go to the hospital. So I would suggest he gets seen soon.

take him!

yes i would if he has had this many already you dont want to risk it...please take him...

Yes, you should take him and leave now! When I had mine, a blood test of some kind was taken and it shows something (I don't remember all the technical stuff, a little busy at the time) in the blood that tells the doctor if you have had one. I doesn't go by measuring pain, etc. In fact, I never had any pain in my chest or arm. I am a female and had some back pain and some jaw pain. But the blood test is what was used to diagnose me! Make him go now!

If he won't go and you are worried...call an ambulance. They can at least talk some sense into him.

Madam,
Take him to a good doctor of your choice first who is a heart specialist & follow his instructions strictly. I think he must have : 1. Blood pressure, 2. blood cholestrol & ECG checked up at he earliest. Always keep aspirin tablets with you & him. Whenever any pain which works wonders for removing pain due to heart attacks immediately , if taken with water. After that one must take the patient to the hospital immediately because rise in blood cholestrol causing heart attack & damage of any part of the heart due to that doesn't go away with pain. If the damage is minor, it can go with medicinal tablets of three - four types as prescribed by the competent doctor. If it is a little more, angiography & angioplasty is done. If the problem is bigger than that, bypass surgery is required. Even by bypass surgery , all problems can't go but the person can survive b coz a part of the heart itself dies which cannot be recovered in cases of severe damages. It is not necessary that when the pain is in the chest then only heart problem may be there rather, pain in neck, shoulders, right side of the chest & liver etc may also be due to heart problems, which are of many varieties as the heart is a very complicated organ.
For very advanced stage , I cannot say anything but for general problems I can tell you some home remedies which are very useful.
1. Mix 2 gm ordinary garlic paste with 200gm of pure honey & 200 gm of grape or apple or any other fruit vinegar. Stir the solution to make that homogeneous . Enclose that in a glass bottle of dark colour with lid closed such that 2 inch air gap above that remains & put that in the fridge for 10 days at its bottom. Start taking one teaspoon or more every morning at least half an hour before breakfast. Within three months the patient will be normal but he can continue without any harm. Non patients too can use the solution so made. A human heart has four valves tubes of diameter of width of human fingers. When yellow wax type cholestrol starts depositing inside that reducing & finally blocking the smooth blood flow in them, heart problems come as attacks . A person dies when all valves are blocked completely. When three & a half ones are blocked, the abovementioned formula can open & make the patient normal without bypass surgery . If the valves themselves are very weak, artificial valves too are connected by surgery. It is clear that disappearance of pain is not guarantee of problem's exit.
2. Ask him to take at least one raw or fried garlic daily.
3. He can take few green basil leaves daily.
4. Salads should be taken compulsorily.
5. Avoid fatty foods.
There are other instructions too but that will be too much. I've other do it at home tips for the problem but the above mentioned solution is versatile that it reduces high blood pressure to make it normal, reduces weight & eliminates obesity without dieting, removes joint pains & tremendously improves the health of those ones who cannot get out of bed due to heavy weight. try to make it today itself.

it's probably indigestion, my dad had that and we called 911 because he thought he was having a heart attack, turned out that he just ate too much food the night before (thanksgiving).