If people with diabetes feel like this, it may be a distress signal from your heart

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Mr. Zhang has had diabetes for more than ten years, and just last week he experienced something that made him afraid when he thought about it. After dinner that day, he felt a little uncomfortable in his stomach and had acid reflux. He wondered if he had eaten too much for dinner, so he went out for a walk. During the walk, I felt my face was hot and my throat was uncomfortable, so I slowed down the walking speed, and these uncomfortable feelings were relieved.

But when I got home and sat on the sofa, these feelings reappeared, and they continued to worsen, followed by chest tightness and shortness of breath. At this time, he felt that something might be wrong, so he asked his family to send him to the hospital. Sure enough, based on the symptoms he described, the doctor preliminarily judged that he might have suffered from angina pectoris. He could not rule out the occurrence of myocardial infarction. He urgently opened a green channel for treatment, and placed a stent through interventional surgery. The doctor said that he was really lucky among misfortunes.

Mr. Zhang was a little puzzled. He usually heard that angina pectoris and myocardial infarction would cause obvious symptoms such as chest pain, breathlessness, and cold sweats. But he didn’t have these symptoms at the beginning. He just felt uncomfortable in his stomach and felt hot on his face. Is it also a sign of a heart problem? In fact, Mr. Zhang's doubts are just the distress signal from the heart, which is often ignored by many people. This kind of situation is more common in people with diabetes, which has a lot to do with the characteristics of diabetes.

The greatest harm of diabetes is the damage to blood vessels. Elevated blood sugar will damage the vascular endothelium, and a large amount of fat will be deposited under the endothelium through the injury and cause a series of inflammatory reactions. Atherosclerosis occurs. Diseased blood vessels obstruct blood flow, and the surrounding tissues and organs are damaged due to ischemia and hypoxia, which is the pathological basis of various complications of diabetes.

Due to blood flow throughout the body, high blood sugar presents diffuse vascular damage throughout the body, and nerve cells accompanying blood vessels are more likely to be damaged. Diabetic peripheral neuropathy has become the earliest complication of people with diabetes. This complication will cause a series of abnormal sensory functions, such as decreased sensitivity to pain, even if the foot is punctured without knowing it; gastrointestinal nerve damage, decreased motility, indigestion, acid reflux, and constipation and many more.

In this case, if angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, etc. occur, you may not feel severe pain, and some radiating pain caused by it is also mild and often ignored, which often delays the best time for treatment and leads to occurrence of serious consequences. Therefore, people with diabetes, especially those with a course of more than ten years, should pay attention to the unsuitability of the body. When the following symptoms appear, they should go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment in time:

Unexplained dizziness, headache, epigastric discomfort, acid reflux, heartburn, throat tightness, neck tightness, pain in the upper limbs, soreness in the shoulders and back, pain in the cheeks, feeling hot, fever Unexplained toothache, jaw pain

What needs to be reminded is that these pains may not be severe, or even just feel some discomfort, especially for older people whose various functions are deteriorating, and after a long illness, they have a strong tolerance to certain pains. If you don't understand this knowledge, you may not be able to detect cardiovascular problems in time, thus delaying treatment and causing serious consequences. Special attention should be paid to this.

In addition, if myocardial infarction does occur, measures to reduce myocardial oxygen consumption and increase myocardial blood supply must be taken immediately, often requiring interventional surgery to place stents, and the faster the treatment, the better the protection of the myocardium and the better the prognosis. Don't hesitate because your symptoms are not obvious. You must know that the treatment of myocardial infarction needs to race against time, and the result will be different a minute earlier.

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