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ICD and sex?
- By wibbi · New reply 8:08 am
- Discussion in Living with an ICD · 3 replies
- My boyfriend is concerned i could get shocked by the defibrillator during sex. How can i stop him from beeing scared ...
Can you wear an exercise heart monitor with an ICD?
- By blake76 · New reply yesterday at 2:17 pm
- Discussion in Living with an ICD · 5 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 ...
Getting ICD for Heart failure - how worried should I be?
- By sonia_66 · New reply November 20, 2009
- Discussion in Living with an ICD · 12 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 ...
Amazing!
- By maureengraz · New reply November 20, 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 ...
Head Injury and SCA our story
- By Buldozers · New reply November 20, 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 · New reply November 19, 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 ...
There is hope, there is help.
- By Aaron-Pennsylvania · New reply November 18, 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 ...
reply
- 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 ...
Arrhythmias
- By redhead4u777 · New reply November 18, 2009
- Journal · 11 replies
- In my mind I was planning out my day, mindlessly performing my pre-work morning rituals. Make my lunch-check. Iron my shirt-check. Wake up on the kitchen floor. What? Did I just faint again? On the way ...
misdiagnosis?
- By glenbobbitt · New reply November 18, 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 ...
Where do I go from here?
- By Promise · New reply November 17, 2009
- Journal · 7 replies
- Although I have not been very active in this forum, your posts have provided me with much hope and connection to a group of people who share very similar experiences. I really appreciate how you all conditionally ...
Only feelings of despair.
- By wfreebird23 · New reply November 16, 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 ...
ICD, LQT, low potassium
- By edmar · New reply November 14, 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 ...
Longevity following a SCA??
- By Buldozers · New reply November 14, 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 ...
Meet the medic: a real shocker!
- By rturri · New reply November 12, 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 ...
LQT with an ICD- anyone out there?
- By jencava · New reply November 9, 2009
- Discussion in Living with an ICD · 19 replies
- Hi. Is there anyone out there who also has LQT and has a defibrillator? I am a 34 year old. female, mother, and wife, and had a cardiac arrest 3 months ago and a week later received an ICD after finding ...
HAS ANYONE OUT THERE HAD MORE THAT ONE PHANTOM SHOCK
- By bingo · New reply November 9, 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 · New reply November 8, 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 ...
Applying for Disability
- By ConnieB · New reply November 8, 2009
- Journal · 24 replies
- I live in Virginia I will 60 years old in Aug., I had a heart attack 5 years ago, I had a stent placed. Last year I had a difibillator implanted. I was layed off of my job in February, so I am not working ...
The stages of grief/acceptance
- By Jamesrochelle · New reply November 6, 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 ...
