Earlier this month, we reported on guitarist Brian May's injury sustained while gardening. It turns out that a torn butt was just the beginning of his health problems. His continuing pain led to more tests that revealed a a severely compressed sciatic nerve, then he had a "small" heart attack, and doctors discovered three blocked arteries!
In a series of posts on his Instagram account, the 72-year-old said that a week after he was sent home after sustaining the gardening injury, he was still in such agony that he “wanted to jump at some points”. He was readmitted to hospital for an MRI scan, which discovered a severely compressed sciatic nerve – the product, he concluded, of 50 years as a guitarist. “That’s why I had this feeling that someone was putting a screwdriver in my back,” he said.
During the “whole saga of the painful backside”, May said he experienced 40 minutes of chest pain and tightness that turned out to be a small heart attack. He was readmitted to hospital for an angiogram, which found three blocked arteries. May said he was pressured by some parties to have open-heart surgery, but took alternative advice to have three stents implanted.
Read more about May's health at the Guardian. The article includes a video of May telling the story himself. -via reddit