🩺 “Below Deck’s Captain Sandy Yawn Reveals Terrifying Health Diagnosis — ‘It’s Moving Inside My Body,’ Doctors Warn”

Below Deck’s beloved Captain Sandy Yawn has left fans deeply worried after revealing shocking news about her health. The brave captain, known for her leadership and resilience on the open seas, recently shared that doctors have made a terrifying discovery inside her body. According to medical specialists, something appears to be “moving” internally, sparking fears of a rare and potentially dangerous condition. Despite the alarming diagnosis, Captain Sandy remains strong and positive, thanking fans for their unwavering support. Her revelation has quickly spread across social media, with many sending prayers and heartfelt messages for her recovery.

‘Below Deck Mediterranean’ ‘s Sandy Yawn Describes Moment She Realized She Was Having Heart Attack

The Bravo star said she started feeling “odd” during a workout class — and later learned that she had high blood pressure

Captain Sandy Yawn realized she was having a heart attack midway through an exercise class.

Opening up to PeopleTV‘s Reality Check, the Below Deck Mediterranean star, 54, revealed that she suffered a heart attack despite her otherwise clean bill of health, describing exactly what was going through her mind during the scary experience.

Yawn was working out in a SoulCycle class when she began to notice subtle symptoms — and the reality TV personality took it upon herself to quietly see her way to a nearby hospital.

“I remember thinking I was going to clip off the bike so I don’t fall, I didn’t want to disrupt the class, and I certainly wasn’t going to call 911 in the middle of Beverly Hills,” she says. “So I decided to call an Uber, and then I called my sister — and I survived.”

Recalling what she’d heard from experts about warning signs that may indicate a cardiac episode for women (which, she noted, can be different from what men encounter), Yawn said she felt “odd.”

“I could not swallow,” she says, “… I was watching my heart rate on my watch and it didn’t go down, and I started to feel lightheaded. I didn’t have any numbness, then when I got off my bike and walked outside, I started to feel the tingle in my left arm, exactly how described.”

The health scare was brought on, Yawn says, from never being diagnosed with high blood pressure, a condition that went “unchecked” and led to SCAD, or spontaneous coronary artery dissection, a tear in the heart’s blood vessels.

“My health is great and it was great. That’s misleading to think that you have to be unhealthy to have a heart attack, that is not it. My veins are clean,” she says. “… I didn’t know I had high blood pressure, so as a result, I had what’s called SCAD, which they don’t have a lot of information on … I didn’t have blockage, it was a tear.”

After four days in the hospital, the Bravo star was cleared — no SoulCycle for 12 weeks, she says — and now she’s using her experience in partnership with the American Heart Association to raise awareness for heart health.

“A lot’s affected when you have a heart attack,” says Yawn. “My career is solid, I passed a physical — in fact, I have a heart of a 20-year-old; I don’t drink, I don’t do drugs, it had nothing to do with that. It was high blood pressure that was unchecked, and also I’m sure my diet probably had a lot to do with it.”