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Ford and his band performed in Arizona last year when he collapsed on the stage just as the show began
American Country star Colt Ford says he does not remember the day he had a life-threatening heart attack, which happened just a few days after he had gone for a full-body checkup at a clinic.
Ford and his band performed in Arizona last year when he collapsed on the stage just as the show began, but the 55-year-old says he has no memory of it. He also does not remember the moments after the show, when he returned to the tour bus and collapsed. "One of my guys just happened to walk back on the bus and find me already slumped over," Ford, a former professional golfer, told CBS News.
In the hospital, Ford underwent a ten-hour-long complex surgery where he even flat-lined twice. The doctors had to put his heart in shock to bring it back into beating. After his surgery, Ford was transferred to the Mayo Clinic, where he was kept in a medically induced coma for eight days and put on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, a form of machine support that helps the heart and lungs.
Colt had no symptoms of heart attack
Ford says he experienced no symptoms of a heart attack—not even chest pain.
“I had undergone a check-up before the tour that found no problems,” he said. “I had also recently lost weight and thought I was in good shape,” Ford added.
Do heart attacks always have symptoms?
According to doctors, heart attacks do not always have symptoms. Also known as a silent heart attack, it happens when your heart does not get enough blood flow and oxygen, injuring it.
Experts say a silent heart attack can injure your heart just like a more obvious heart attack can. But if you do not know you are having a heart attack, you may not get the medical help you need to limit the damage. This is why it is always important to make time to pay attention to how you’re feeling.
Usually, a blood clot causes a heart attack by keeping blood from flowing through one of your coronary arteries. Less often, a coronary artery spasm or injury to your coronary artery wall can cut off your blood flow. Researchers estimate that at least 22–60 per cent of all heart attacks are silent and are more common among women or those who have diabetes.
Signs you are having a silent heart attack
Unlike chest pain that happens with exertion, chest pain from a heart attack will not stop even when you rest or take medicine. However, there are other mild symptoms you must notice, which feel like:
- You have the flu
- A sore muscle in your chest or upper back
- Ache in your jaw, arms, or upper back
- Tiredness or fatigue
- Indigestion
What are the risk factors of a silent heart attack?
A few health issues that put you at a higher risk for a heart attack include:
- Being overweight
- Not getting regular physical activity
- Having high blood pressure
- Having high cholesterol
- Eating a lot of foods that have cholesterol, salt, and unhealthy fats in them
- Having high blood sugar
- Stress
- Smoking
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