If someone with diabetes feels this way, it may be a distress signal from your heart

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Mr. Zhang has been diabetic for more than ten years, and just last week he experienced something that made him terrified just thinking 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 that my face was hot and my throat was uncomfortable, so I slowed down the pace of walking, and these uncomfortable feelings were relieved.

But when I got home and sat on the sofa, these feelings reappeared, and they kept getting worse, followed by shortness of breath in my chest. At this time, he felt that there might be a big problem, and he quickly sent his family to the hospital. Sure enough, the doctor preliminarily judged that he might have angina pectoris based on the symptoms he described, and a myocardial infarction could not be ruled out. He urgently opened a green channel for treatment, and placed a stent through interventional surgery. The doctor said that he was really lucky in misfortune.

Mr. Zhang has some doubts. He usually hears that there are obvious symptoms such as chest pain, suffocation, cold sweat, etc. when angina pectoris and myocardial infarction occur. Is it also a sign of a heart problem? In fact, Mr. Zhang's doubts are also the distress signal from the heart that is often ignored by many people. This situation is more common in people with diabetes, which has a great relationship with the characteristics of diabetes.

The biggest 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. The 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.

Because blood flow spreads all over the body, hyperglycemia presents diffuse vascular damage throughout the body, and the nerve cells that accompany the blood vessels are more easily damaged. Diabetic peripheral neuropathy has become one of the earliest complications in people with diabetes. This complication can cause a series of sensory dysfunction, such as decreased sensitivity to pain, even if the foot is punctured without knowing it; gastrointestinal nerve damage, decreased peristalsis, indigestion, acid reflux, constipation and many more.

In this case, if there is angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, etc., 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 serious consequences. Therefore, people with diabetes, especially those who have had the disease for more than ten years, should pay attention to the inappropriateness of the body. When the following symptoms appear, they should go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment in time:

Unexplained dizziness, headache, upper abdominal discomfort, acid reflux, heartburn, throat, neck tightness, pain in the upper limbs, shoulder and back pain, pain in the cheeks, feeling hot, hot, unexplained toothache, jaw pain

It should be reminded that these pains may not be severe, or even feel a little uncomfortable, especially in older people whose functions are deteriorating, and they have a strong tolerance for certain pains after a long illness. If you do not understand this knowledge, you may not be able to detect cardiovascular problems in time, thus delaying treatment and having serious consequences. Special attention should be paid to this.

In addition, if a myocardial infarction does occur, it is necessary to immediately take measures to reduce myocardial oxygen consumption and increase myocardial blood supply, often requiring interventional surgery to place stents, etc., and the faster the treatment, the better the protection of the myocardium, and the better it will be in the future. You must not hesitate because your symptoms are not obvious. You must know that the treatment of myocardial infarction needs to race against time, and the results will be different one minute earlier.

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