question: 24 yeard old female, mum of 2 boys ages 4 and 1. On my sons 1st birthday I was run off my feet all day. Later tat night when I finally sat down to relax I called my mum. during the phone call I began to get chest pains and a sharp pain when I breathed. I ignored the pain for about an hour and stayed on the phone but the pain was slowly getting stronger so i told my mum i had to get off the phone. I went and sat on the lounge and then it got really bad, like something was squishing my chest through to my back which was also aching. It was getting harder to breath because with each breath I got a sharp pain in the chest. I called my husband who was in the other room and asked him as I thought it might help, if he could run a bath for me. So he ran into the bathroom to do as I asked, and in that short time it became alot worse I tried walking round the room a couple times to take my mind off it but it was so bad. The pain was even more intense, the sharp pain when I breathed in, the dizziness, the cold sweat and the feeling like i was going to be sick. I tried to walk into the bathroom but as I walked out of the loungeroom I felt like if I didnt sit I was going to pass out and fall so I sat in the hall way, but then layed because i couldnt sit. My husband came out of the bathroom and called my parents, who only live round the corner. So they came over and by the time they got there, which only took about 2 mins, I felt alot worse, I could barely breath, the pain was extreme, I couldnt move. My parents rang an ambulance. from the beginning, I had this sharp pain that slowly seamed to travel up my chest, like i could point to it and follow it up, by the time the ambulance got there this sharp pain was traveling up my neck towards my jaw....although the pain everywhere else was extremely strong, I could feel it was easing. the paramedics took my blood pressure which was 60 / 40 and took me to hospital. on the way to hospital the pain eased some more, by the time we got there it was an ache. I was left in the corridor for about 45 mins and then the doctor spoke to me, gave me an iv for dehydration and some mylanta, but by this time all the pains had gone except for an ache and felt like my chest was badly bruised ...could this have been a heart attack ??