If you get random heart burn/indigestion lasting days that doesn't get any better no matter what you do, you could be having a heart attack.

I'm writing this after my mum got home from the hospital today. Thursday she started complaining about having heart burn and it wasn't going away. Friday she called the doctor who just gave her heart burn medicine and sent her on her way. Saturday the pain still wasn't going and she was going through her medicine fast. Sunday night the pain started getting excruciating and she was planning on going to the doctor again on Monday but my brother came round and called the paramedics as he felt something serious was going on. They took her into hospital and 4am Monday morning she was in surgery after they confirmed this pain she had been feeling since Thursday was infact a heart attack. If she had waited until Monday to go to the doctor she probably wouldn't have made it through the night. This situation has really fucking shook me. I feel so stupid for not calling the paramedics sooner but I just genuinely never thought that it could be a heart attack. I had a very narrow view on what a heart attack can look like before this. I never thought that a heart attack could last so many days and progress so gradually in severity. I don't even know much about heart burn so when my mum said that's what she was dealing with, I just trusted it since I assumed she knew better, yknow? Anyways, I just wish I knew all this beforehand so she could've got help sooner. She's okay now, but it makes me feel sick knowing if my brother hadn't called the ambulance, I honestly don't know what would have happened. So yeah, if you get heart burn and it really isn't going away, be on the safe side cause it could be a heart attack. Sorry if this is well known info, I just personally didn't know this and I imagine a few other people won't know this either.