I am a 48-year-old T2 diabetic - I'm not grossly overweight and there is no family history of the disease; it is suspected I became T2 following a viral illness

I am a 48-year-old T2 diabetic - I'm not grossly overweight and there is no family history of the disease; it is suspected I became T2 following a viral illness coupled with a highly stressful job. I ended up in Accident and Emergency (UK) after developing what was thought to be a bad chest infection - I was coughing up bloody fluid from my lungs. After a some examination and an ECG, I was whisked into a ward and scheduled for a angiogram. A day or so later, right after the angiogram, I was told I had some damaged blood vessels around my heart and I had "probably" had "at least one" heart attack sometime in the past! Every physician that did the rounds while I waited for a stent operation asked me whether I'd had any further chest or arm pains and I had to keep telling them that I'd never had any such pains - no 'classic' symptoms. The upshot was that the heart damage was put down to a combination of diabetic-related complications, possibly not helped by one of the meds I had been taking. 3 years and 5 stents later (should have been 4, but one of the blood vessels tore during the procedure so I had to have an extra 'covered stent'!) and I am still up and about - albeit with some reduced heart function. So, as robbiep commented - "'Typical' signs do not present in everyone: in particular diabetics are at increased risk of having 'silent' heart attacks"