I am a fit, healthy 33 year old and never in a million years thought I was having a heart attack! So grateful for our amazing health care system and that I’m still here to live life to its fullest and watch my beautiful Elsie grow up.

"Oct 2019 (51 year old female) and I'm training for a half ironman as part of a relay. I'm going to swim 1.9km and ride 90km. Training is going well, saying to my friends that I'm feeling like I have a balanced training program, not fatigued in the least...

On Wednesday 26 August 2020 I suffered 2 x heart attacks from SCAD. I don’t think I’ll ever forget that day. It was life changing. I picked up my son from school and chatted to friends. Once home I was working at my desk and I got a very intense heaviness in the middle of my chest...

"I was a fit and healthy 48 year old; with a 15 year old son and a 10 year old daughter. Working as an Accountant I’d recently started a new job where I’d encountered issues which were causing me severe emotional stress... I had no idea I was a candidate for Heart Attack"

"My first SCAD happened late October 2019 while walking my dog... Then on November 4 2019 I had my second SCAD which caused such severe pain - we called the ambulance and was told by paramedics I was having a heart attack...

I didn't have a clue I was having a heart attack!!! On the 6th October 2019 I was doing a HIIT workout and as I lifted the weight above my head I felt like I had a stitch in my heart, I felt sick and light headed but after a few moments it passed. So I just thought it had something to do with drinking a coffee prior to exercise as I don't normally do this.

Kara was sitting on the couch having a cuppa with a friend one week after giving birth to her daughter when she had a SCAD Heart Attack

"I never thought this would happen to me. I assumed I had no risk of a heart attack as I had just turned 40, had low blood pressure, no cholesterol issues, a healthy diet, exercise routine and two young kids to keep me active!  In retrospect - 6 weeks prior, I presented to a hospital

"On Saturday morning 2nd June I dropped my brother's kids to soccer and went home and started vacuuming at 9am. At about 9.20am all of a sudden I had what felt like pressure in my whole chest and left arm.