The guitarist revealed that other health problems were discovered after the heart attack.
Queen guitarist Brian May has revealed that he was close to death after suffering a heart attack. The 72-year-old musician admitted that he was “shocked” to learn that he needed surgery. However, he clarified that his heart attack was not extensive.
May announced her health problems on Instagram. “I thought I was a very healthy person. But it turned out that three arteries in my body were blocked and there was a risk that the blood flow to my heart would be cut off,” said Brian May. As a result, the guitarist had three stents – tubes that keep blood vessels open – put in. Now, May says, his health is nothing to worry about. “I left the hospital with a very strong heart, so I feel I am in good shape for the near future,” says the Queen guitarist.
In May, the British media reported on May’s health for a completely different reason. He posted a message on his social media about tearing his gluteal muscle while working in his garden. The injury caused him constant pain, but it was later found to be caused by another injury.
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“I mentioned that I tore a muscle,” May said in a video on Instagram titled “Sheer Heart Attack,” referring to the title of the band Queen’s third studio album, released in 1974. “I was given this diagnosis and we thought it was just a silly injury that I got while working in the garden. At the time, I didn’t even realize how funny it looked. Somehow I forgot that anything to do with the back of the body amuses people…but it turns out it’s not about that at all,” May said.
A week passed and I was still in pain. It just hurt a lot. Sometimes I couldn’t even find a place for myself. It was hard to believe that it hurt so much. And people would tell me, “It doesn’t look like a torn muscle, it can’t hurt that much. So I ended up having another MRI. But this time they scanned my lumbar spine, and of course they discovered that I had a pinched sciatic nerve, a pretty severe pinch, which is why I felt like someone was drilling into my back all the time. It was just excruciatingly painful.
“They finally started treating me right. Because for about 10 days I was putting ice in the wrong place,” May continues. “That is part of the story, and in that sense I am much better now. But the rest of the story turned out to be quite strange – and quite scary. “I thought I was a very healthy person. Everyone told me, ‘You have excellent blood pressure, a wonderful pulse. I keep myself in shape, I ride a bike, I’m on a diet, I don’t have a lot of fat… However, during this whole ordeal with the lower body pain, I had a small heart attack. Not that it did me any harm. I had chest pains for about 40 minutes, a feeling of tightness in my chest, I was sweating and there was also a feeling in my arms…”.
When May realized he was having a heart attack, he called his doctor, who took him to the hospital to determine the true cause of his health problems. The guitarist was offered the option of either stenting or open-heart surgery. May opted for the stent procedure, which he says went very well.
May said his experience should serve as a lesson to people his age. “You may think you have a very healthy heart, but it may not be. If I were you, I would get everything checked out,” May said. “In fact, I was very close to death, but I didn’t die. I left the hospital – and if it weren’t for my leg, I would be fine.
Recently, the band Queen released a new version of their famous hit We Are The Champions to raise money for the World Health Organization’s Covid-19 Relief Fund. The song was renamed “You Are The Champions” as a tribute to the doctors; it was recorded during the quarantine.