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Women urged not to ignore chest pain during coronavirus pandemic
Jun 3, 2020
A mother who needed a triple heart bypass operation has warned other women not to ignore mild chest pain during the coronavirus pandemic.
Melanie Connell felt a strange sensation in her chest and decided to go to Ipswich Hospital.
Doctors said the 54-year-old had suffered a heart attack and needed surgery.
Women would often experience mild chest pain similar to indigestion during a heart attack, according to the NHS .
Mrs Connell, who lives in Erwarton in Suffolk, said she was doing some gardening two weeks ago when she felt a "raw" sensation in her chest.
Image copyright Melanie Connell Image caption Melanie Connell and her husband enjoyed a hiking holiday in the Lake District just two months before her heart attack
"It was nothing like you see on television. No sweating, no sickness, no crushing pain, no pain shooting up my arms, jaw or neck," she said.
The mother-of-two has a history of heart problems in her family, so when the pain reached her back, she decided to go to hospital.
She said she was worried about going during the pandemic but felt it was important "not to be frightened off" by coronavirus.
A consultant confirmed Mrs Connell had suffered a heart attack and sent her to The Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge for surgery.
She was allowed to go home five days after her triple bypass and said she was now "pottering around like an old bruised and battered tortoise".
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