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Driving In Hot Weather. Developed Chest Pain, Headache, Jaw Pain, Pricking All Over Body, Shallow Breathing. Took Saline Drips. Heat Stroke?

I was on a off road motor bike ride it was extremely hot I only had abut a liter of water with me, I started to developers a pain in my chest almost like that when you exercise it progressed into a headache and pain in the jaw. I eventually had to stop riding cause I felt that I was about to black out, I started getting pins and needles all over my body and breathing became shallow. Tried to rehydrate from friends water and dank a sugar dring but got worse. Was a taken to hospital delerious and very low blood pressure, had three saline drips and spent night and day in ICU . Was I suffering from heat stroke ?
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there can be chances of heat stroke
vasovagal attack
spondylisis attack or heat problem
this can only be confirmed by blood work clinical corelation geneal examination and relavant tests
after that we an treat the cause to prevent further attacks
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Driving In Hot Weather. Developed Chest Pain, Headache, Jaw Pain, Pricking All Over Body, Shallow Breathing. Took Saline Drips. Heat Stroke?

there can be chances of heat stroke vasovagal attack spondylisis attack or heat problem this can only be confirmed by blood work clinical corelation geneal examination and relavant tests after that we an treat the cause to prevent further attacks