u/Imsongoku7

Hi everyone,
Has anyone here taken melatonin or any other sleep medication after a STEMI / heart attack and stent?
My doctor said melatonin should be fine and nothing major should happen, but I wanted to hear real-life experiences from people who have actually been through this.
Mainly curious about:
Did melatonin help your sleep?

Did it cause palpitations, weird heart sensations, or anxiety?

Any dizziness or BP drop?

Any issue while being on post-stent medicines like antiplatelets?

Did anyone need prescription sleep medication instead?

I’m not looking to change my cardiac medicines or ignore my doctor ,just trying to understand what others experienced after MI/stenting.
Thanks.

Hi everyone,
I’m a young post-MI patient. I recently had an LAD STEMI with angioplasty/stent. My EF was around 45% at discharge and improved to around 50% later.
Today I got scared because while checking BP/pulse at home with an Omron BP machine, one reading seemed to show my pulse around 195–198/min suddenly. I panicked and repeated the measurements.
Repeat readings were around:
112/81, pulse 95
111/78, pulse 121
Later pulse around 101
I then got an ECG done. The ECG showed:
Heart rate around 103/min
Sinus tachycardia
Old/suspected anteroseptal MI changes
Low voltage chest leads
So the ECG did not capture a 195 pulse. It only showed sinus tachycardia around 103.
I’m wondering if the 195 reading was likely a BP-machine artifact/misread due to anxiety, movement, cuff issue, or glare or whether it could have been a short SVT/arrhythmia episode that resolved before the ECG.
I’m planning to inform my cardiologist and ask if I should do a 24–48 hr Holter or longer event monitor.
Has anyone here had false very-high pulse readings on home BP machines after MI? Or did anyone have brief SVT/tachy episodes that only showed up on Holter/event monitoring?
Not looking for diagnosis , I’ll follow up medically. Just looking for experiences from other heart attack survivors.

So I had a STEMI at the end of 2025, and it has been emotionally draining because I’m only in my late 20s and about to enter my 30s.

I always aspired to work in government/administrative service. But now, because of my heart condition likely CAD and a history of MI ,I’m scared I may not be declared medically fit even if I clear the written exam. The guidelines aren’t very clear, but they mention that the heart and lungs should be sound and free from any disease that may hamper service.

Medically, I’m doing fine now. I was stented successfully, and my EF has improved. But emotionally, this has broken something inside me.

I just can’t understand: why me? Why did this happen to me at this age? I feel like I may not be able to live the dream I had worked toward.

I’m a doctor, and I do have an alternate path possibly pursuing radiology/fellowship options outside my country in the future. But I’m struggling to move on from this one thought: why me?

Another thought that keeps lingering is: maybe I could have prevented it. That guilt keeps coming back again and again.

For those who had a heart attack young, or anyone who has had a major health event derail their career/life plans , how did you mentally deal with it? How did you accept the uncertainty and rebuild your life?