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blood presure low irregular heart beat
- By aug · New reply 6:16 pm
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- I was walking and felt real dizzy getting the chest pain and all that goes with it. I sat down took my blood pressure which was 80/55 my pulse was 60 the meter I used flashed irregular heart beat. A friend ...
Off Topic - Contemplation
- By ROBO_Pop · New reply 4:09 pm
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- The hot Arizona days bring on a warm wind that trails across the desert stirring up the loose surface sand and filling the atmosphere with fine dust that can strip the chrome off a door knob. It certainly ...
Mitral Valve Replacement - again?
For Those With Defibrillators - Rumor or Not?
- By gracie62 · New reply yesterday at 7:20 pm
- Journal · 3 replies
- I had to share this because it is on MSN News. That does not, of course, make it true. But on the off-hand chance there is something to this I thought people should at least be aware of it. Amazing what ...
THE DREADED ICD
- By KAR49 · New reply yesterday at 12:51 pm
- Discussion in Newly diagnosed · 10 replies
- If anyone has an ICD implanted can you describe what happens when it "goes off" How painful is the shock ...
When is the time for ICD implant for managing severe heart failure
Change in Coreg dose
Good news for our small miracle
- By cathi570 · New reply yesterday at 8:34 am
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- My daughter and I took little Bodach, our foster kitten, to an adoption event at Barnes and Noble last weekend. We spent 10 hours in the store both Saturday and Sunday promoting the SPCA bookfair and ...
New column: “'Live Because:' Living a fuller life with chronic illness"
- By John2 · Posted May 21, 2013
- Journal · 0 replies
- From: John Novack, Communications Director, Inspire Dear members, I'm writing to share with you a new column on the Stanford University School of Medicine "Scope" blog, titled, “'Live Because:' Living ...
Lady Passed Over Rainbow Bridge Yesterday
- By gentle-huggies-annie · New reply May 20, 2013
- Journal · 12 replies
- Hey, Y'all... Some of you know that Lady's daddy is an ex of mine, and is now my roommate. I knew Lady, a mostly white Shih Tsu with bits of grey and tan (kept in a short puppy cut), when she was still ...
Pericarditis/ effusion
- By roxygirl56 · Posted May 19, 2013
- Discussion in Newly diagnosed · 0 replies
- "About four weeks ago, was getting increasingly winded and started to have episodes where I couldn't get a breath. My primary thought it was reactive airway due to a sinus infection and gave me inhalers ...
Heart Disease Symptoms, Understanding the Ups And Downs of Blood Pressure
Five million
- By Brian · New reply May 18, 2013
- Journal · 205 replies
- Dear members, Yesterday, Inspire reached a milestone: five million posts written by members! Each of these posts, and the 700 million words they contain, are a simple measure of how much we all do to ...
Catheter Ablation for Afib .... Safe & Effective?
- By danawalter · Posted May 17, 2013
- Discussion in Treatment · 0 replies
- A must read for anyone considering catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation: http://collateral-damage.net “Must read for everyone prior to surgery – patients AND doctors. Concise, well researched – you ...
No Benefit of Fish Oil in High-risk Patients
- By TigerWiger · Posted May 17, 2013
- Discussion in In the news · 0 replies
- http://www.theheart.org/article/1536889. do Milan, Italy - The supplemental use of n-3 fatty acids does not reduce the risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in patients with multiple cardiovascular-disease ...
Heart patients have the best of all worlds...
- By ROBO_Pop · New reply May 16, 2013
- Journal · 19 replies
- Some days you just have to realize how very lucky you are. I spent the morning in a darkened room, with a highly attractive young woman, on the bed, and well, let's just say some money changed hands ...
Blueberries Help Fight Artery Hardening, Lab Animal Study Indicates
- By TigerWiger · Posted May 14, 2013
- Discussion in In the news · 0 replies
- http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201 0/09/100929105701.htm ...
Cell-Permeable Peptide Shows Promise for Controlling Cardiovascular Disease
- By TigerWiger · Posted May 14, 2013
- Discussion in In the news · 0 replies
- http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201 3/04/130417091922.htm ...
New technology maps the electronic signals of the heart 3 dimensionally
- By TigerWiger · Posted May 14, 2013
- Discussion in In the news · 0 replies
- http://www.brightsurf.com/news/headlines /85817/Intermountain_Medical_Center_rese achers_develop_new_3-D_technology_to_tre at_atrial_fibrillation.html SALT LAKE CITY - Researchers at the Intermountain ...
Final plans
- By ROBO_Pop · New reply May 13, 2013
- Journal · 26 replies
- Our mortality becomes a real issue when we find we are fighting the heart disease battle. Granted nobody is known to have survived life to date, with or without heart disease. well except some of those ...
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