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A member asked:
My chest tightened up real bad and stayed that way for a few minutes. did i have a heart attack ? p.s. i was doing drugs:p
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Possibly.: Drugs have definitely been known to cause heart attacks. My advice: get your heart checked and get help in a serious attempt to stop using drugs.
Answered 5/14/2015
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Bad Idea: Not sure what happened there, but chest tightening is never a good thing...Neither is doing drugs.
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