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Journals
Hands Have been Hurting
- By starre · Posted yesterday at 2:15 pm
- 0 replies
- Latley hands have been hurting// it's summer i thought they wouldn't hurt as much but forgot about air conditions and going down the frozen section at the grocery store and my finger tips hurt a lot ...
My cardiologist: "the devil himself?"
- By Kennarina · Posted yesterday at 1:19 pm
- 1 reply
- Letters to the Editor, Victoria Times Colonist, Wednesday, June 24, 2009 ‘Dress codes in hospital should respect patients’ Dear Editor, 'In May, I had to stay in the Royal Jubilee Hospital cardiology ...
ICD check-up
- By bamagal · Posted July 1, 2009
- 4 replies
- 14 days post BiV ICD and my check up was great! Incision is healing nicely with only slight swelling and discomfort. Most noticeable is the LACK of fatigue! I get tired some but nothing like I did, and ...
A mechanical miracle- aka an ICD!
- By harmonyj · Posted June 30, 2009
- 5 replies
- Well, its been 19 days since I've had the ICD. It is so amazing to me that I feel so good. The best I have felt in 3 years. Yesterday I walked 5 miles and did not feel out-of-breath once! I feel like ...
Road Trip!!
- By DebBar · Posted June 30, 2009
- 3 replies
- Tomorrow's a big day; I'm leaving in the morning on my first trike (motorcycle) trip. I've had the trike 2 yrs., but hardly got to ride last year cuz of the sudden discovery of CHF, mitral valve repair ...
Applying for Disability
- By ConnieB · Posted June 30, 2009
- 9 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 ...
First Day of Cardiac Rehab
- By Lynnedz56 · Posted June 29, 2009
- 8 replies
- I was nervous. Like the first day of school. I liked it. The nurses are really nice and everyone there is so friendly. The only thing is I felt like a baby, because most of those who were there are probably ...
Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder..it has a name??
- By eviefor3 · Posted June 29, 2009
- 10 replies
- finally........a name for what so many of us go through every day. now i have a LEGITIMATE excuse for what i do lol A. A. A. D. D.: Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder. This is how it manifests ...
Hard to get close to my husband
- By starre · Posted June 28, 2009
- 6 replies
- I've had sd for 3 yrs the first yr i was going back and forth to the hospital and doctors then we where close for one yr but the beginning of this month i don't want to be touched because it hurts to ...
53 Today
- By Lynnedz56 · Posted June 27, 2009
- 7 replies
- I've been having a "bad" week. I always reflect before my birthday..just something I do. A lot has happened in a few short months. In August I was diagnosed with CHF. And May 14th I had a stent put in ...
update on my tmjd
- By melisue · Posted June 26, 2009
- 2 replies
- Hi everyone, I am still fighting with the insurance for my tmjd. I have had an MRI- the most painful experience of my life so far. They used a jack to open my mouth! OUCH! I still cannot eat anything ...
O2 Annie - Just checking in!
- By frogcollector · Posted June 25, 2009
- 3 replies
- Thought I would check in after such a long silence. I no longer need the 'Metro' RX...Metoprolal. The O2 has stopped the SVT events entirely. Staying on the O2 for now...it works so why change anything ...
left side chest pain
- By tarashane · Posted June 24, 2009
- 4 replies
- Hi, i am new here, & was hoping someone can relate to what i'm experiencing or can give me some advice.To start with, i'm 29 & for the last two months i've been having this pain/ discomfort on the left ...
Got My Bracelet
- By Lynnedz56 · Posted June 24, 2009
- 15 replies
- Well, I got the medic alert bracelet yesterday. So, it is on my arm and will not come off. And it will give me some comfort that no matter where I am, if I collapse the paramedics will know all my health ...
bummed about living with SVT everyday
- By angSVT · Posted June 23, 2009
- 3 replies
- im 22 years old and i have been suffering with SVT for about 2 years now. I struggle with it on a daily basis and it is so dicouraging. I had a ablation procedure done last year but had complications ...
On the King's Highway - I only hurt a little
- By Great-gram · Posted June 22, 2009
- 0 replies
- Hi all! Today is today. Wow! Managed to get the office work done - and sit in on the tail-end of prayer meeting. It's pretty bad, when you work in the church building and can't get to prayer meeting ...
On the King's Highway - Living in the now! With sarc; heart problems ++++
- By Great-gram · Posted June 21, 2009
- 4 replies
- Greetings! Life keeps on being interesting, certainly not boring. Wish I didn't have brain fog! Actually there are a lot of things I wished I didn't have. Funny, not too many things that I wish I had ...
Idiopathic nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy
- By Brianne · Posted June 21, 2009
- 4 replies
- Finally got the results of the genetic testing for my Long QT back... Turns out I do not have any gene abnormalities showing that the Long QT was inherited. (Still don't know why I have it.) I am shocked ...
Do you feel the pacemaker pace?
- By harmonyj · Posted June 21, 2009
- 8 replies
- I have felt a twinge occasionally, in the the exact same place each time. I think it feels like when they were testing the pacemaker in the hospital. (But I was on drugs then!) Just wondering if you can ...
continued heartache
- By Annette_Bernadette · Posted June 19, 2009
- 14 replies
- A quick rundown. Last year started feeling ill, very ill, local doctors chalked it up to flu and menopause. After weeks of trying to get competent medical help, I drove 2 hours to a caridologist for emegency ...
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