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The Dark Side.
- By Sandyzk12 · New reply 7:55 pm
- Journal · 16 replies
- I have been having chest pain "unstable angina" for about a week. I saw my cardio yesterday. My options are few. Nevertheless who says I have to die or have surgery or sport another lousy scar? HELL NO ...
Having pressure in my chest
- By ocalagal50 · New reply 7:00 pm
- Discussion in Living with heart disease · 9 replies
- I have heart disease and I found out thursday I have some blockage in my heart..I feel pressure in my chest a lot does anyone else have the same thing? I get scared when I feel it but I go to the hospital ...
Need some prayers for my neice's daughter - King's Highway is getting Bumpy
- By Great-gram · New reply 3:49 pm
- Journal · 17 replies
- Hi to all - a lot has been happening. I thank God for all my Inspire friends. Right now we are in need of prayer for our neice's daughter. She's somewhere around 12 - not sure, and I keep forgetting to ...
Is this normal?
- By and_dang · New reply 9:19 am
- Discussion in Living with heart disease · 4 replies
- Hi All, It's taken me what seems like a long time to write this, but I think I'm just starting to feel it now. Short story is I'm 43 and had a SCA in Sept 2011, install defib. SCA in December 2011, with ...
A very different Mother's Day...
- By MaryLG · New reply May 14, 2012
- Journal · 13 replies
- One year ago, I wrote this journal entry. https://www.inspire.com/MaryLG/journal/y ou-are-honored-all-you-not-quite-mothers -too/ I was incredibly sad one year ago, feeling like the little lost sheep ...
Zithromax May Cause QT Prolongation
- By TigerWiger · New reply May 13, 2012
- Discussion in Treatment · 1 reply
- http://www.askthedoctor.com/topics-a-z/2 93-heart-disease/133186-is-it-safe-to-ta ke-antibiotics-in-a-patient-with-heart-s tent.html Zithromax (Azithromycin) may cause a condition that affects the heart ...
Antibiotics & Heart Attacks--Can Prevent or Cause
- By TigerWiger · Posted May 13, 2012
- Discussion in Treatment · 0 replies
- http://www.onlinemedicinetips.com/diseas e/heart-disease/heart-attack/Heart-Attac k-And-Antibiotics.html Heart attack and antibiotics have a strange relationship. Either antibiotics can cause a heart ...
What should I do?I need advice
- By ocalagal50 · New reply May 12, 2012
- Discussion in Living with heart disease · 12 replies
- When my boyfriend gets drunk which is every night he says mean things to me and stresses me out.A few nights ago he sent me an e-mail showing stress and heart diease than he stresses me out.I tell him ...
Sources sought for SCAD-related article
- By John2 · Posted May 12, 2012
- Journal · 0 replies
- From: John Novack, Communications Director, Inspire 5/12/12 Hi members, A freelance writer contacted me this week seeking to interview people from the Philadelphia, PA or Los Angeles areas for an article ...
"Life after Death" aka The Elastic Woman Fights Back.
- By Sandyzk12 · New reply May 11, 2012
- Journal · 6 replies
- It has been around 6 months since my life was forever changed by a nasty set of coronary arteries. I went back to work within a month of surgery and was relocated (politically correct term for GO! DO ...
Drinking
- By Marinab · New reply May 11, 2012
- Discussion in Living with heart disease · 6 replies
- hi, does anyone drink while on their heart meds ...
"I'm still standing and here's to a great future!"
- By Sandyzk12 · New reply May 10, 2012
- Journal · 21 replies
- Hmmm - I regret that with my history -and my multiple medications that I cannot raise the proverbial glass and toast this occasion with my family (who are rolling around laughing hysterically in delayed ...
PT/INR home testing
Looking for Male SCAD patients
- By KAKLeon · Posted May 9, 2012
- Discussion in My diagnosis · 0 replies
- Hi. I'm hoping to connect with survivors of spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD), and in particular ... men. The Mayo Clinic is conducting research into SCAD. So far, it's only been discussed ...
Prinzmetal angina and leaky mitral valve
- By Kamigrammi · Posted May 8, 2012
- Discussion in My diagnosis · 0 replies
- Does anyone know of any link with prinzmetal angina symptoms and a leaky mitral valve. ie anyone who might have had a mitral valve repair and then experience a lack of angina symptoms? Thanks ...
My Reflections
- By RangerGirl · New reply May 7, 2012
- Journal · 8 replies
- As I approach my second year anniversary date since having my surgery, there are a few things that I want to share with you. I have been luckier that a lot of people because I was able to tell my family ...
How do I Handle Life
- By DaiseyLou75 · New reply May 6, 2012
- Discussion in Family and friends · 3 replies
- Part of me feels like I should not even write anything yet another part me feel I need to vent - I need to help myself deal with the stresses life brings. My husband is worse off than I (I just completed ...
My New Life Mantra......
- By gracie62 · New reply May 6, 2012
- Journal · 18 replies
- I was touched, as I am sure many of you were, by the story of baby Avery's Bucket List. Her father told her at one point in her short life: "...always remember, you can live life dying or you can die ...
MicroRNAs shown to regenerate cardiac cells
- By TigerWiger · Posted May 5, 2012
- Discussion in In the news · 0 replies
- http://www.theheart.org/article/1390855. do?utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_medium=em ail&utm_source=20120504_TopStories_EN MicroRNAs shown to regenerate cardiac cells Durham, NC - Researchers at Duke University ...
Nights without Statins Part 2 - AKA "First Do No Harm".
- By Sandyzk12 · New reply May 4, 2012
- Journal · 28 replies
- Remember Nights without Statins? This is an update and I do beg you all to read it and understand what I am saying: Please to ALL: I am a medical professional, I work in hospitals and I have over 30 years ...
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