{"id":242128,"date":"2026-01-16T23:55:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/242128\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T23:55:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:55:18","slug":"harrogate-powerlifter-says-it-was-big-shock-he-had-heart-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/242128\/","title":{"rendered":"Harrogate powerlifter says it was &#8216;big shock&#8217; he had heart attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dyble said he experienced chest pain for four days before being taken to hospital and he had no idea that his symptoms could be linked to a heart attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I naively thought it was just really, really bad heartburn,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I thought, I&#8217;ll go to work in the morning and on the way home from work, I&#8217;ll nip into to the chemist and and try to get something else to shift it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During a personal training session with a client, he said the pain was &#8220;horrendous&#8221; and travelled down his arm and neck, so he left work early to rest at home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Although he still &#8220;hadn&#8217;t put two and two together&#8221;, he called 111 to describe his symptoms and an ambulance was dispatched immediately.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dyble said it was a &#8220;surreal experience&#8221; to be driven under sirens and lights to Leeds General Infirmary, where he was rushed straight to the operating theatre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He had emergency surgery to clear a blockage in a left ventricle artery and was later told he could have been 45 minutes away from his heart stopping entirely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was a really big shock. Not just for me, but for my family and for people that knew me as well,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While in recovery, a consultant told him he had widespread coronary heart disease, which although classed as mild to moderate, needed to be managed with medication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dyble said he experienced chest pain for four days before being taken to hospital and he had no&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[589,163,85,46],"class_list":["post-242128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}