Feeling Faint After Heart Stint

They told me I had food poisoning... but I was bleeding to death inside

Recalling the incident six months ago, the 43-year-old millionaire – a former head of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, who is on the Conservative Party's Approved Candidate list – says: 'Horrible pain spread across my chest and stomach – it felt like all the blood was being drained from my head.'

Any movement brought on more spasms of pain, sickness and fainting. It sounds terrifying, yet Ivan says: 'I wasn't scared – it sounds odd but I felt more embarrassed than anything. I'd been going through some kind of mid-life crisis at the time and it just seemed like such a cliched old man way to die: in the shower, of a heart attack, after exercising too hard.

'I must have cried out or made a huge thud because all of a sudden my personal assistant and housekeeper were both standing over me, which only added to my embarrassment, as I was naked. I suppose it was a terribly English reaction to dying.'

An ambulance was called and Ivan, who counts Joan Collins and Geri Halliwell among his friends, was rushed to the accident and emergency at University College Hospital, London.

There, he was told he had not had a heart attack; instead, it was simply a very bad case of food poisoning.

'I was left on a trolley for a few hours while they took some blood and at about 1am I was sent home in a taxi. I was still in agony every time I moved and suffering dreadful cramps. But they said it was probably bad rice that I had eaten, so I just went to bed and tried to ride it out.'

The diagnosis was badly wrong. Although he didn't know it at the time, Ivan had suffered a rupture to the main blood vessel supplying his spleen, a condition known as a splenic artery aneurysm.

The artery was steadily pumping the contents of his circulatory system into his stomach cavity.

The cause of his pain would not be correctly diagnosed for five days – repeatedly being mistaken for food poisoning by doctors and paramedics – by which time he was close to death.

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In all honestly I probably eat too much saturated fat because I eat 4 scrambled eggs everyday,and some Mayo with my chicken or beef for the remainder of the day.

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I know that these have carbs,but they are all of the natural kind.

Does this still do more harm than good?

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