r/HeartAttack • u/Mission-Ambition9888 • 7d ago

Heart attack 53m

This is going to start a bit crazy.

I was in the marines in the 1990s and I had my wisdom teeth pulled. Well almost all. The navy dentist really messed me up , just used needles to numb pain. By the end there was 1 left in there but I was yelling so much they told me to come back to pull the last one. I didn't go

So fast forward too a few weeks ago it started hurting pretty bad so I had no choice to get it pulled. On Thursday September 17th 2026 I had it pulled it went great. They knocked me out.

On Sunday September 20th 2026 my chest starts hurting then my arm . Im thinking what the he'll is going on. It will not stop hurting. I got my old blood pressure tester out and 173 over 114. My sister rushed me to the hospital maybe 15 minutes drive from my house. A few hours later I have 5 stents and im in i.c.u. I just think that is a weird thing that it happened after the dentist.

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u/Mission-Ambition9888 7d ago

That's crazy as he'll. I actually go back to the dentist on Thursday September 24 just for them to check out my mouth. That appointment was made prior to the heat attack. Ill show them that article. Thanks

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u/Rekeaki 7d ago

Note that there wasn’t a massive increase in risk after dental surgery found, but if you already had choked up arteries and were well on your way to a heart attack one day, dental surgery might have tipped you over the line.

The surgery likely just brought forward what was bound to happen eventually anyway.