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Heart stopped beating. I could feel the lack of oxygen despite breathing like mad. Thought "Fuck, tomorrow my mom is going to find me dead in my bed" (I still was a student living close enough to university to commute). Luckily, one of the built-in safety mechanisms kicked in and my heart restarted. Spent some weeks in hospital after that so they could find me a better medication than the one I was using.
Heart stopped beating? That's a thing? Jesus
Presumably OP had some kind of condition, given that they were already on (non-working) meds.
I mean I've heard of heart attacks but never just neurologically stopping beating. I'm not a doctor or anything though
Cardiac arrest is heart stop beating (e.g. damar Hamlin? The Bills dude the other year). This is when you see a flatline.
Heart attack or myocardial infarction means the arteries that keep your heart oxygenated get blocked, cardiac tissue after the blockage of that then starts dying. The heart is still beating (or trying to beat).
Heart attacks are also not no more beating, if you didn't know that. It's when the heart muscles don't get enough blood and the essentially start to suffocate.
If it stops beating for any of a large number of reasons, that's cardiac arrest, which used to be the definition of death.
man dies, freaks out, and comes back to life
That is a thing if the medication you get does not really work out for you. I remember waking up one night a week before that where I started the blood pressure recorder, and it measured a heartbeat of 26 BPM. And that was when I was actually out of the valley and had enough energy to press the button.
If you don't mind me asking, what are you diagnosed with?
High blood pressure. I initially got beta-blockers, which my heart didn't like that much.
Intense, glad you're still around!
Yes, me too. Not a good experience, I'll rate it 1/10, not recommendable.
And yes, quite some of your life passes before your eyes in those seconds. It is indeed very intense.