I had a pain below my sternum the last couple of weeks. I was able to run normally, I ran 1½ miles 3 times, and played a couple of rounds of golf carrying my bag with plenty of energy to spare. But since I had a heart attack in the past, I thought I would get an EKG. Kaiser said no way - and sent me to the hospital, where they took an EKG and blood tests with no sign that I had a heart attack. But they didn't know why I had that pain so they looked into my heart and put in 6 more stents. Apparently I was real close to having a major heart attack. (While this was happening, my wife's cousin had a heart attack at a stoplight and died). It wasn't a good night, and I am still hurting pretty badly, partly due to blood pooling near my groin, and part what I thought was my heart. My first attack did not have classic heart attack symptoms. This pain is the first I have felt like it and may be coincidental. Which means I really didn't have any clue that I needed to go to the hospital.