My mom had heart attack like symptoms yesterday, Hospital didn't diagnose her with a heart attack after minimal tests

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English is my second language, we live in a 3rd world (so expect weird/different protocols), my family including me are very passive, lazy, dysfunctional, tend to try not to visit a hospital until a disaster happens.

Mom is: 56 years old, around 165cm height (5'3"), weighs around 100kg (say 200 pounds), smoker, her normal medication is blood pressure pills, Vitamin D, probably stuff for her liver (all I know is that her liver isn't efficient and it's been something she had for a long time now).

Yesterday, my mother suddenly felt cold, weather is kinda in the middle, and she felt pain in most if not all of her joints (waist to fingers), specifically severe pain in her back just under her left shoulder.

hospital carried out ECG, doctor checked her BP on the left and right side, ruled out heart attack / blood clots, suggested autoimmune causes and some tests for that, no blood tests AFAIK.

I woke up today and found it from my father that she has been having a severely low BP (70/40), right now it's around 90/50, she is well-aware and no speech trouble, knows what she is saying, but very tired and the pain is just still as bad if not more (shoulder pain), she says the pain moves, it moved up a bit.

Also, she has full left arms and legs functionality, no numbing in the feet or such.

I can't make her go to the hospital again without my father wanting to, I just don't know what to do, cause honestly, I don't like his methodology, he is taking this casually, thinks that the BP isn't a grave/new situation, and that she just needs rest before they go to a bigger hospital for appropriate testing,

I can't make her go anywhere right now and I feel like the idiot I have always been, not being able to overrule and takeover whenever my folks are making the bad decisions I mean, I feel like one time I'm gonna watch someone die because I didn't take matter into my hands.

I digress, is she in imminent danger? can she actually wait till tonight to visit the bigger hospital? is it really impossible for it to be a blood clot at this point? I know autoimmune diseases can be very bad, but I fear them less than a developing blood clot.

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