Last night at work, my Mom got sick all of a sudden. she broke out in a heavy sweat, had severe back pains, nausea – she ended up barfing but she says she thinks it was because she gulped down cold water suddenly – got light headed and had lockjaw this morning. all of her vitals were checked out by the nurse on staff and looked good according to the nurse. At first I thought it was food poisoning because of the nausea, and I know that heart attack symptoms can vary, but she's gone back to work and is being stubborn about seeing the doctor. What do you all think??? she is 59.

Drinking very cold water, because it passes directly by the heart on it's way down the esophagus can stimulate a heart attack. So I'm guessing she had a mild heart attack, the others symptoms point to one as well.

yes this is called stubborn and she should be seeing the doctor not sure why it could be heart or it could be someting else. i mean its good to find out the severe sweating leads me to think heart or clogged arteries but we dont know til the doctor sings.

go to her PCP. he can refer her to a cardiologist. just to be sure. he will probably do a stress test. it's better to be safe than sorry. the thing with women is that their symptoms can be very different!!! ECG may very well not show any arrythmias and/or irregularities. And although nurses are very intelligent and i love them to death. with ECG interpreting you have to practice it specifically almost everyday. certain things and measurements of waves are hard to detect by the naked eye if it's small. did they do any blood work? it may show up there as well.

Make her go to the doctor!!! I don't want to scare you but I think you'll just keep worrying if you dont