About a week before her heart attack, she woke up with some stiffness in her left shoulder, as though she had been “sleeping on it wrong.”
She originally thought it was perimenopause, a term used to describe a range of symptoms that occur in the years before menopause, causing a frozen shoulder.
“I felt like I was going to throw up when I woke up in the morning the day before I had my heart attack,” she remembered. Actually, it just took me fifteen minutes or so to
get beyond it, and I continued with my day as usual.Nausea On the day of her heart attack, Nikki recalled waking up with shoulder pain and feeling like she was going to vomit up.
My shoulder hurt when I woke up the morning of my heart attack, and I thought I would vomit up. I went to get some coffee, and after a few moment of sitting down again, it began.
