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Can you wear an exercise heart monitor with an ICD?
- By blake76 · Posted 4:57 am
- Discussion in Living with an ICD · 3 replies
- Hi Does anyone use a heart monitor watch & chest strap with an ICD? (i.e. Suunto) I have a St Judes ICD but I am considering getting a heart rate monitor watch for when I play sports. I know the ICD knows ...
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- By glenbobbitt · Posted November 18, 2009
- Journal · 0 replies
- Thanks to everyone for the support. I am not much of a typist and not too good at working the website but it is comforting to see that i am not alone ...
misdiagnosis?
- By glenbobbitt · Posted November 17, 2009
- Journal · 3 replies
- The head neurologost at UAMS in little rock told me Vicki would never walk on her own, talk, or see(cortical blindness). Yesterday I had her at home for a 2 hour visit when my talking caller id said,Call ...
Head Injury and SCA our story
- By Buldozers · Posted November 15, 2009
- Journal · 3 replies
- In 1995 my husband went four wheeling with his buddies out at the desert, they rolled 70 feet end over end, the result was 6 concussions and TBI(traumatic brain injury). At the time we were just friends ...
Nadolol
- By jencava · Posted November 13, 2009
- Discussion in Living with an ICD · 3 replies
- Is there anyone out there who is currently on the medication Nadolol as a beta-blocker for LQT? I was recently switched off of Inderal to Nadolol and have been on it for about a week or so now and wondering ...
Only feelings of despair.
- By wfreebird23 · Posted November 13, 2009
- Journal · 5 replies
- With all that's gone on in my life and our country in the past year or so, I am sad most of the time. Although I am very good at mockery and covering up my feelings. I think I do this so I don't intrude ...
Meet the medic: a real shocker!
- By rturri · Posted November 11, 2009
- Journal · 4 replies
- When I woke up this morning, Nov. 11, I remembered two things.Today is my birthday and I still hadn't met the last one of the paramedics who came to my rescue when I had my sca on April 6, 2008. So, I ...
Longevity following a SCA??
- By Buldozers · Posted November 11, 2009
- Journal · 13 replies
- My husband is 43 he had a SCA at the Gym in 1/09 Praise the Lord he survived and now has the ICD. Does anyone know how long of life the prognosis is following this? He has a healthy heart the cause was ...
ICD and sex?
- By wibbi · Posted November 9, 2009
- Discussion in Living with an ICD · 2 replies
- My boyfriend is concerned i could get shocked by the defibrillator during sex. How can i stop him from beeing scared ...
Amazing!
- By maureengraz · Posted November 7, 2009
- Journal · 17 replies
- Vince spent three hours raking leaves and mowing the lawn today without any shortness of breath. All that with an EF of 25%!!!!!! Simply amazing ...
There is hope, there is help.
- By Aaron-Pennsylvania · Posted November 5, 2009
- Journal · 3 replies
- At times I felt alone and no one understood what I was going through. Well, that was true regarding the people around me. Other than Samantha's family and myself, the people in our circle could not understand ...
The stages of grief/acceptance
- By Jamesrochelle · Posted November 5, 2009
- Discussion in Surviving SCA · 4 replies
- Until this week I had been going along in what I refer now to as denial. My SCA happened in July and within a week I had an ICD. It all happened so fast and without warning. I had a dream last night and ...
ICD, LQT, low potassium
- By edmar · Posted November 3, 2009
- Journal · 6 replies
- I'm a SCA survivor, and i'm lucky to be alive again. I fainted, April 23, 2009, the reason i was rushed to the hospital. I was admitted for 12 days, and after a series of tests and investigation, my doctor ...
6 months for Steve
- By wdiane · Posted November 2, 2009
- Journal · 6 replies
- 6 months ago today was the worse day of my life! On that day I felt that life would never be the same and was wondering if Steve was going to live or die. Well, Life is not the same but it is good. We ...
HAS ANYONE OUT THERE HAD MORE THAT ONE PHANTOM SHOCK
- By bingo · Posted October 31, 2009
- Discussion in Living with an ICD · 13 replies
- Has anyone out there had more than one phantom shock? I have had (2) two. I was told that I dreamed it. If I did then it wasn't funny. I'd just like to know if I'm losing it or have already lost it. bingo ...
Heart Fluttering And Pain
- By bluedeuce4 · Posted October 31, 2009
- Discussion in Living with an ICD · 1 reply
- I have been getting a lot of heart fluttering in the past two days,and i`m getting the same feeling that i had when my ICD fired before, but it has not fired. I also am getting sharp shooting pain from ...
How long does Billy have with an ef of 29??
- By sophianbilly · Posted October 31, 2009
- Journal · 10 replies
- his defib/pacemaker was implanted in June 2009 when he was still at UCH after a chronic heart happened on April 2009......He had anoxia to his brain and heart which is why they waited soooo long....He ...
Mikei red reishi mushroom?
- By antonella · Posted October 30, 2009
- Journal · 2 replies
- A friend of mine told me about this mushroom. was wondering does anyone know anything about it and is anyone using it? I know it's been used in Japan and China for many years. Any feedback apreciated ...
Getting ICD for Heart failure - how worried should I be?
- By sonia_66 · Posted October 30, 2009
- Discussion in Living with an ICD · 11 replies
- Does anyone else have heart failure? I have been diagnosed and have fears of reaching end-stage heart failure. My medical history includes TIA 1999. History of palpitations since then also. Hypertension ...
Surgery and the ICD
- By Lydjahh · Posted October 28, 2009
- Discussion in Living with an ICD · 2 replies
- I facing a major surgery to remove about 12 inches of my colon. Do they deactivate the ICD during the procedure? I have Long QT and scared of the anesthesia and the medications. I was thinking about asking ...
