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Brianne
  • By Brianne · New reply 8:55 pm
  • Journal · 3 replies
  • I did not know I had long qt before my cardiac arrest. I actually went to the hospital for severe abdominal pain one morning and the doctors determined I had an appendicitis. They started surgery and ...

Driving privileges taken away...

Mary1
  • By Mary1 · New reply 7:57 pm
  • Discussion in Surviving SCA · 9 replies
  • Hello, After my first SCA in July 2006, I was not allowed to drive for 6 months (I think NYS law). After my 2nd SCA in December 2007, I was told the same thing. The problem, however, is that the cardiologist ...

SCA and Depression

Darrel
  • By Darrel · New reply 7:53 pm
  • Discussion in Surviving SCA · 1 reply
  • I had SCA about a year and a half ago. I am starting to struggle with depression, I am not sure why. Since my SCA, i have had to find way to deal with it. I am doing Ok, I am getting back into the swing ...

Stress Test Music

DianeFromNapa
  • By DianeFromNapa · New reply 10:58 am
  • Journal · 5 replies
  • Howdy everyone! I just wanted to let everyone know that I did well on my frist stress test s/p multiple SCA. I went 11 minutes and was able to get my heart rate up to 170 bpm (we had up'd the ICD setting ...

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Walter
  • By Walter · New reply 10:27 am
  • Journal · 35 replies
  • Hi everyone. We added a new feature today that you can use to support your groups and the organizations that sponsor them, and get the word out about the causes that are important to you. If you visit ...

My daughter did great!

Tammy1
  • By Tammy1 · New reply yesterday at 10:02 am
  • Journal · 2 replies
  • First of all I pray all of you had a great Thanksgiving. We are all here, that is a blessing to be thankful for. Yesterday my beautiful 18 y/o daughter, Heather, had her Reveal DX Implanted Cardiac Monitor ...

Why are we here?

Brian
  • By Brian · New reply November 28, 2008
  • Journal · 134 replies
  • When we started this community, each of us faced important health issues in our lives. Some of us have family members with medical conditions. Many of us have medical conditions of our own. All of us ...

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New feature: video!

Brian
  • By Brian · New reply November 23, 2008
  • Journal · 24 replies
  • I am pleased to announce that we have updated Inspire to support video. You can now share a video of yourself, videos that you find inspirational or informative, and more. I've included one of myself ...

Confused but very hopeful

frustratedaughter
  • By frustratedaughter · New reply November 23, 2008
  • Discussion in Surviving SCA · 22 replies
  • My 81 year old mother suffered SCA a week ago. She was without oxygen for approximately 6 minutes before being given CPR by the medics. They also began the hypothermic treatment in her home, by IV. This ...

Wives at the Scene of the Incident

terriwinget
  • By terriwinget · New reply November 22, 2008
  • Discussion in Surviving SCA · 3 replies
  • I haven't found this topic yet, so I thought I would start one. This is very graphic, but I want to know if any wives out there need to discuss details about their "day" because I do and I am hoping that ...

Anoxic brain injury; what's normal?

Axykatt
  • By Axykatt · New reply November 20, 2008
  • Journal · 8 replies
  • After a SCA my 25 y/o husband is now being hospitalized with ABI. The doctors and hospital staff are very reluctant to tell us what is a sign of recovery, and what is simply reflexes or unconscious movement ...

Travel after ablation...

fabu
  • By fabu · New reply November 16, 2008
  • Discussion in Living with an ICD · 5 replies
  • Pete is back in U penn hosp... big job yesterday he was airlifted here from jersey Shore... he had 4 zaps on the floor at target ... and 2 more in J.S. .. they went in and ablated 35 spots in lower r ...

Ventricular Fibrillation

Tammy1
  • By Tammy1 · New reply November 12, 2008
  • Discussion in Surviving SCA · 3 replies
  • OK, I don't know what to do or what to think. I had a 6 week follow up with my Cardiologist due to starting Sotalol. My device went off last week and with all of my other symptoms I wasn't too concerned ...

AM I GOING TO DIE

bingo
  • By bingo · New reply November 11, 2008
  • Discussion in Living with an ICD · 4 replies
  • I have an icd but it doesn't stop me from being scared. I also have congestive heart failure. My cardiologist told me that it depended on my outlook on life as to how long I would live. Does anyone else ...

phantom shocks

fabu
  • By fabu · New reply November 7, 2008
  • Discussion in Medical and scientific research · 3 replies
  • has anyone out there experienced phantom shocks from their icd? apparently there is a thing because i went to the er thinking that my icd just fired up to and including after pain in my chest. wasn't ...

Stress can trigger an SCA?

MarylandTom
  • By MarylandTom · New reply October 21, 2008
  • Discussion in Surviving SCA · 8 replies
  • I have been reading through some of the discussions and one in particular had a reply (from Mary1) talking about stress as a trigger for an SCA. She also talked about a genetic test testing for "CPVT ...

Stories of Extraordinary Heroes

liferesus
  • By liferesus · Posted October 19, 2008
  • Discussion in Promoting CPR and AEDs · 0 replies
  • Read stories of how ordinary people turned heroes at this site www.firstaidcorps.org ...

Montana Survivors

danmontana
  • By danmontana · Posted October 7, 2008
  • Discussion in Promoting CPR and AEDs · 0 replies
  • I'm putting together an AED Program. I need Survivors in Montana to help with testimonials ...

Dazed and Confused

shamrock
  • By shamrock · New reply October 7, 2008
  • Journal · 15 replies
  • My husband has had an ICD for 10 years now, and is still scared to death of it. All he'll do is sit and watch TV, as he's afraid that if he does any physical activity, he will get "thumped". Needless ...

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