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Surviving SCA

Share your story with other community members. Meet others who also survived sudden cardiac arrest and offer advice and support.

Anoxin Brain Injury

By royal · New reply September 24, 2008
21 replies
Hello Coleen In response to your discussion of Feb.7th 2008............My husband is going through the same thing as your Father and I am trying to find others who have gone through the same thing. With ...

Personality Change?

By Lydjahh · New reply September 17, 2008
49 replies
Has anyone experienced a substantial, noticeable personality change since SCA? I have, and family and friends say I am much more calm and I find myself to be much more tolerant of things that used to ...

SCAA's "Ask the Expert" Web Chat

By kristjen · Posted August 4, 2008
0 replies
Hello everyone, SCAA is holding its second "Ask the Expert" web chat on Monday, August 11th at 9:45 AM EDT. Please join Dr. Kevin Thomas of the Duke University Medical Center on a discussion of The Disparity ...

Orange County Support Group

By Darrel · Posted August 1, 2008
0 replies
Orange County Chapter News Cardiac Arrest Survivors Support Group This meeting is designed to provide support for survivors and family members of loved ones affected by Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) in ...

A tragedy that changed my life forever

By craita · New reply July 30, 2008
7 replies
My father suffered a cardiac arrest in 10/12/2007 followed by an anoxic brain injury. He is stabilized from months but I still cannot find a way to comunicate with him. He regained part of his senses ...

AED usage in romote areas

By pdminc · New reply July 26, 2008
12 replies
There are many examples of rapid AED usage saving lives and adding to this list is everyones objective. Every story I have seen also was involved with emergency services and a hospital stay. The question ...

DX--Sarcoid of the Heart and Lungs

By irishblueeyes59 · Posted July 22, 2008
0 replies
My husband had SCA last October...survived after 3 difribullations. He has been diagnosed with Sarcoid of the heart (formerly also dx with Sarcoid of the lungs). Our cardiologist said they can't find ...

Coreg

By marksgough · New reply July 19, 2008
18 replies
My physician wants to presribe Coreg to me and I am one that does not like experimenting with new drugs. I had a heart attack two weeks ago and went into Vent. Fib. I now have an ICD. My blood pressure ...

zaps!

By magnoila61 · New reply July 8, 2008
11 replies
Hi everyone, I just had my cardiac arrest in January and dont remember too much for about 2 weeks after the episode. I was down for 45 min but am kind of young..heh heh so they really went for it. I have ...

2nd SCA

By Mary1 · New reply June 16, 2008
6 replies
Hi, I am curious to hear from people who have experienced a SCA with their ICD. I survived an SCA in July 2006, had an ICD implanted, and then experienced a 2nd SCA 6 weeks ago. I didn't experience the ...

My husband had an SCA at the age of 39 this June while we were on vacation

By funrunr · New reply May 13, 2008
5 replies
My husband had his SCA on the morning of June 23rd, 2007 while we were on vacation in Oregon. He was going to take our son golfing but told him he needed to come back to the hotel room as he wasn't feeling ...

Question

By gtrogers · Posted May 12, 2008
0 replies
Just wondering if anyone has ever felt fluttering on the RIGHT side of your chest? It has been going on since early yesterday morning.. I have felt it on my left side before so this is strange. My husband ...

Making the difference

By mdiprete · New reply May 9, 2008
3 replies
I am always in awe of the struggles, the strengths, and the daily triumphs you all have as SCA survivors. I can only look at it from the side of having lost my young son to SCA, and watching my other ...

anoxic brain injury

By Coleen · New reply May 9, 2008
2 replies
I would like to speak to someone who has survived the anoxic brain injury. My father had surgery on November 29, 2007 and something happened 48 hours after surgery, (stroke, heart attack), we're still ...

will it happen again??

By beths · New reply April 12, 2008
4 replies
I had SCA due to a blood clot in the LAD in June 2006 at age 56. I arrested 2x and a stent was placed. I received help very quickly as we live down the street from a fire station and was in the cath lab ...

question about sca with icd

By eviefor3 · New reply April 3, 2008
4 replies
if you have an icd, can you have sca? or, does the icd prevent sca? in september my icd fired 2 times and i felt better after that happened but my daughter drove me to the er for the just in case factor ...

HCM-Understanding your diagnosis

By LisaSalberg · Posted March 20, 2008
0 replies
For those who have survived a SCA event or have had a family member affected with HCM there is disease specific information available at the HCMA website www.4hcm.org. Education is key to good health ...

Muscle cramps

By NuGrandma · New reply February 14, 2008
5 replies
Does anyone out there suffer severely from leg cramps at night? These are sometimes unbearable. Recently, and this sounds stupid, my torso area has started the spasms. Like after exercising. I know I ...

SCA and Brain Damage

By jacqei · New reply February 2, 2008
7 replies
My dad suffered a sca on Sunday, the doctors say he was down for 45 minutes and they cant understand how he has survived. He suffered 6 cardiac arrests before the night was out. They kept him sudated ...

Definitive Diagnosis

By Phud · New reply February 1, 2008
12 replies
Hi All, I'm just curious, more than anything else. I had my SCA on February 27, as I was falling asleep for the night - my wife noticed something was off. Anyways, once they brought me back, I had tests ...