Exhaustion Common After Heart Attack

If you have had a heart attack (a myocardial infarction ), chances are you’ve been living with exhaustion and fatiuge – sometimes extreme exhaustion – since your heart attack. If it helps, you’re not the only one. It seems that exhaustion is common after having a heart attack and it often makes people think that their whole situation is chronic.

Researchers say that around half of the patients in their study of 200 patients said that they felt quite fatigued still 4 months after their heart attack. Interestingly, what the patients reported was that the fatigue was new and different, not like what they had experienced before. The exhaustion wasn’t connected to anything particular, such as increased activity or staying up late, but that it could strike at any time at all.

You can read more about this study in the article Fatigue common after myocardial infarction .

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