2007-01-07 08:58:51 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Heart Diseases
Yes, people have what is called a "Silent Heart Attack" all the time, especially women. I am a cardiology nurse and we have had to inform many patients that they have had a silent MI. So, in our practice we definately believe that some people can die in their sleep peacefully and painlessly. That would also explain why when they died the person sleeping next to them didn't even know they were having a problem.
2007-01-07 10:18:24 · answer #1 · answered by Sandy A, RN 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes so I am to believe that you can die in your sleep with an Heart Attack without pain.
2007-01-07 09:07:49 · answer #2 · answered by CT 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well if you "die in your sleep" then how will you feel any pain at all? You would first have to wake up and then feel the pain. But considering that I have woke before with simple muscle cramps in the legs and arms.....I'm going to sugges that it is possible that someone would wake to the pain of a heart attack while sleeping.
2007-01-07 09:03:34 · answer #3 · answered by Peace 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Physical pain at the time of death depends upon the body condition, and the way of death pocessed by the living being. For example we can see people dying under sleep condition without even aware of being dead. There are a few examples in medical science saying few people turned alive some time after death, most of their expressions were not focusing about physical pain at all. As we could see in most of the cases people suffer out of physical pain due to diseases is mainly because of their maintenance of physical as well as mental condition. So I would like to say that death cannot be granted as a cause for physical pain.
2016-05-23 04:29:03 · answer #4 · answered by Deborah 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
FOR MORE INFO:
Heart Attack
Cause of pain:
The pain that accompanies a heart attack is caused by a complete blockage of one of the coronary arteries. The muscle supplied by that artery immediately becomes severely ischemic (oxygen starved), and the ischemia of the heart muscle usually produces significant pain.
Characteristics of pain:
The pain accompanying a heart attack is usually similar to classic angina, but tends to be more severe and longer lasting. The pain classically is described as a pressure-like, squeezing, crushing, or tight pain. The pain often radiates to the jaw, shoulders or arms, and can be accompanied by nausea, sweating, shortness of breath, dizziness, weakness, or fatigue. Unlike angina it tends to persist, and to worsen for at least the first 15 or 20 minutes. The pain is often accompanied by a feeling of intense fear - classically described as a "sense of impending doom."
THE PAIN OF AN ATTACK MAY BE SEVERE, BUT FOR THE SILENT ATTACK WHILE SLEEPING YOU MIGHT NEVER KNOW TILL IT'S TOO LATE.
2007-01-07 16:38:45 · answer #5 · answered by Dr. Albert, DDS, (USA) 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I know alot of people die in their sleep...and some of them are from heart attacks...it would be hard to say for sure, but I would think that way would be peaceful....
2007-01-07 09:09:06 · answer #6 · answered by ~*common sense*~ 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes,thats why sometimes people are found dead in their beds in the am...not all heart attacks produce severe pain so there might not be enough pain to wake a person
2007-01-07 09:04:25 · answer #7 · answered by charmel5496 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2007-01-07 09:08:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes u can die of a heart attact without pain in your sleep
2007-01-07 19:09:05 · answer #9 · answered by hahn1998us 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes i think so because my uncle died due to a heart attack while sleeping next to my aunt . She had no idea until she woke up and he was dead next to her
2007-01-07 11:51:07 · answer #10 · answered by Black Orchid 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋