'I had a 鎮圧するing chest feeling': Woman who had a heart attack at AGE 14 and had to を受ける 緊急 外科 明らかにする/漏らすs doctors 最初 tried to pass off her symptoms as 'teenage 苦悩'

  • Ceirra Zeager, 23, from Ephrata, Pennsylvania, had a heart attack in high school
  • After hours of 実験(する)ing, she underwent 緊急 外科?
  • She learned she a 血 clot had traveled to an undiagnosed 穴を開ける in her heart??

A woman has opened up about how she had a heart attack at age 14 after a 血 clot traveled through a 穴を開ける in her heart and 宿泊するd in a coronary artery.

Ceirra Zeager, 23, from?Ephrata, Pennsylvania, started experiencing debilitating symptoms the morning after she …に出席するd her first winter formal with her friends. She was struggling to put her shirt on when she passed out.?

After waking up with 苦痛 in her chest and 武器, her parents drove her to a 地元の hospital, where a doctor chalked up her symptoms to 苦悩.?

'I had a 鎮圧するing chest feeling and a loss of breath,' she told Good Morning America. 'It was such 激しい 苦痛 that I thought to myself, "If this is teenage 苦悩, I do not want to be here.'"

Ceirra Zeager, 23, from Ephrata, Pennsylvania, had a heart attack when she was 14 years old

Ceirra Zeager, 23, from Ephrata, Pennsylvania, had a heart attack when she was 14 years old?

She?started experiencing debilitating symptoms the morning after she attended her first winter formal with her friends (pictured)

She?started experiencing debilitating symptoms the morning after she …に出席するd her first winter formal with her friends (pictured)?

After waking up with pain in her chest and arms, her parents drove her to a local hospital, where a doctor chalked up her symptoms to 'teenage anxiety'

After waking up with 苦痛 in her chest and 武器, her parents drove her to a 地元の hospital, where a doctor chalked up her symptoms to 'teenage 苦悩'?

Zeager was sent to a nearby children's hospital for その上の 実験(する)ing and was 急ぐd to 緊急 外科 hours later.??

'I woke up from 外科 and my sister was crying and I asked why, and she said, "You had a heart attack,"' she 解任するd. 'I was in shock.'?

Doctors told the high school freshman that she?had an?atrial septal defect (ASD), a birth defect that 原因(となる)s a 穴を開ける in the 塀で囲む that divided the upper 議会s of the heart.

The 中心s for 病気 支配(する)/統制する and 予防 (CDC)?見積(る)s that around 2,000 babies in the U.S. are born with ASD each year, but it is often not 診断するd until adulthood.?

Zeager's heart attack was 原因(となる)d by a 血 clot that had traveled through the 穴を開ける and settled in a coronary artery.?

The 穴を開ける was plugged during 外科, and she was given 血 thinners to 解散させる the clot, but her heart was 永久的に 損失d.???

During emergency surgery, doctors learned she had an atrial septal defect (ASD), a birth defect that causes a hole in the wall that divided the upper chambers of the heart

During 緊急 外科, doctors learned she had an atrial septal defect (ASD), a birth defect that 原因(となる)s a 穴を開ける in the 塀で囲む that divided the upper 議会s of the heart

Zeager's heart attack was caused by a blood clot that had traveled through the hole and settled in a coronary artery

Zeager's heart attack was 原因(となる)d by a 血 clot that had traveled through the 穴を開ける and settled in a coronary artery?

Zeager was able to graduate high school, go to college and get engaged. Two weeks before her wedding, she learned she needed open heart surgery to treat a leaky valve

Zeager was able to 卒業生(する) high school, go to college and get engaged. Two weeks before her wedding, she learned she needed open heart 外科 to 扱う/治療する a leaky 弁?

A doctor repaired the valve during open heart surgery on February 16, 2021

A doctor 修理d the 弁 during open heart 外科 on February 16, 2021

'My life from that moment was 完全に flipped upside 負かす/撃墜する,' she told the American Heart 協会.?

Zeager 解任するd how she was only able to …に出席する school for half a day, and she had to use a backpack on wheels to 避ける 追加するing 圧力 to her heart.??

'I felt like everyone was looking at me like I was a porcelain doll,' she said.

She managed to live a normal life for years after her 回復.?She 卒業生(する)d from high school, went to college, and got engaged, but she started experiencing extreme 疲労,(軍の)雑役 in the summer of 2021.?

'I was feeling the 質 of my life 減らすing,' she told GMA. 'I was tired and exhausted. I would walk through a short room and be 完全に out of breath.'

Zeager said she had to beg a doctor to give her an echocardiogram and later learned she had a leaky heart 弁.?Four months after her wedding, a doctor 修理d the va lve during open heart 外科 on February 16, 2021.?

Zeager has to take daily medications for her heart, but she is otherwise healthy

Zeager has to take daily 医薬s for her heart, but she is さもなければ healthy?

Zeager (pictured with her husband) graduated from Albright College in May 2022

Zeager (pictured with her husband) graduat ed from Albright College in May 2022?

Zeager was named a '2023 Real Woman' by the American Heart Association's Go Red for Women campaign

Zeager was 指名するd a '2023 Real Woman' by the American Heart 協会's Go Red for Women (選挙などの)運動をする

The heart attack survivor is sharing her story to raise awareness for both the physical and mental effects of heart disease

The heart attack 生存者 is 株ing her story to raise 認識/意識性 for both the physical and mental 影響s of heart 病気?

She has to take daily 医薬s for her heart, but she is さもなければ healthy.?

To 確実にする she stays that way, she eats a healthy diet, watches her ナトリウム intake, and does high-intensity 演習.

However, her mental health has also 苦しむd over the years, and she is 株ing her story to raise 認識/意識性 for both the physical and emotional 面s of heart 病気.

'They all 準備する you for what you're 肉体的に going to go through, but then they don't ever について言及する, "This is going to be hard for you to を取り引きする mentally." There almost should be like a cardiac rehab, but for your brain,' she said.?

Zeager was 指名するd a '2023 Real Woman' by the American Heart 協会's Go Red for Women (選挙などの)運動をする, and she was recently the 基本方針 (衆議院の)議長 for an event 近づく her home.?

'I had this crazy, 悲劇の thing happen to me, and I want to use it for good and raise as much 認識/意識性 as I can,' she told the American Heart 協会. 'I have 目的 now.'

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