Brian May health: Star reveals brutal symptoms of heart attack – ’40 minutes of pain’

Due to the severity of a heart attack, it is important to know the signs and first tell-tale symptoms, which can include:

• Chest pain – a feeling of pressure, heaviness, tightness or squeezing across your chest
• Pain in other parts of the body – it can feel as if the pain is spreading from your chest to your arms (usually the left arm, but it can affect both arms), jaw, neck, back and tummy
• Feeling lightheaded or dizzy
• Sweating
• Shortness of breath
• Feeling sick (nausea) or being sick (vomiting)
• An overwhelming feeling of anxiety (similar to a panic attack)
• Coughing or wheezing.

The NHS adds that while the most common symptom in both men and women is chest pain, women are more likely to have other symptoms such as shortness of breath, feeling or being sick and back or jaw pain.

Speaking about his long recovery after surgery and the multiple complications that came with it, May admitted that the ordeal had knocked the stuffing out of him.

He told Good Morning Britain that he was grateful to be alive, saying: “It’s been a big mountain to climb to get back up to strength again but it’s become my new religion, really.