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Should we let the Throwdown Fizzle after week fourteen?

1spudcat
  • By 1spudcat · New reply 1:10 am
  • 6 replies
  • Laura noted this thread is fizzling and if it were not for her it would be fizzled. For me, I love this easy find post focused on one of the most critical areas we need to address in our lives. I love ...

Prinzmetal Study

MoonFairy13
  • By MoonFairy13 · New reply 12:48 am
  • 5 replies
  • Just wanted to share the info on the study I have been in for quite some time. If you have or think you have Prinzmetal I would suggest you partisipating in this study. You can have your bloodwook just ...

My Story...

Brianne
  • By Brianne · New reply yesterday at 8:55 pm
  • 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 ...

bittersweet memories - nothing to do with HD

kwinner
  • By kwinner · New reply yesterday at 3:14 pm
  • 13 replies
  • In a season of gratitude and giving, joy and laughter, it seems almost sacreligious to be choking on pain, yet here it is, again. Tomorrow is Mom's birthday. She would have been 69. Instead of making ...

Stress Test Music

DianeFromNapa
  • By DianeFromNapa · New reply yesterday at 10:58 am
  • 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 ...

Support your group and raise awareness with badges

Walter
  • By Walter · New reply yesterday at 10:27 am
  • 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 November 30, 2008
  • 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 ...

The Good and Bad Rail

1spudcat
  • By 1spudcat · New reply November 29, 2008
  • 9 replies
  • Recently, I had not responded to Week Twelve's Throwdown. After reading all the good reports that were shared, I felt that what I had to say would be such a "bummer". Things have not been going well ...

Why are we here?

Brian
  • By Brian · New reply November 28, 2008
  • 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 ...

Daughter finally has answers

flowerfloosey
  • By flowerfloosey · New reply November 28, 2008
  • 7 replies
  • Just wanted to update you on our dd finally having answers after her echo that was done two weeks ago. The test was completely normal! The cardiologist told her yesterday that she might just be very sensitive ...

coronary disease.angina,chronic cad

NUKET
  • By NUKET · Posted November 28, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • new scientific researches,medication,stroke risk studies ...

Gratefulness of Thanksfulness.

Mystic
  • By Mystic · New reply November 25, 2008
  • 6 replies
  • Leaves russell in the wind, scraping their neighbors branches as the wind tosses them about. Air , crisp and clean, tingling the nostrils as you breath in. Ah, Fall is in the air and soon Thanksgiving ...

I never would have believed it

AuntieMom
  • By AuntieMom · New reply November 24, 2008
  • 10 replies
  • If someone were to have told me back in the spring of 2006 that I would be on the American Heart Associations Go Red posters for 2009 I never would have believed them. At the end of September while driving ...

Does Nytol Help?

redmoon
  • By redmoon · New reply November 24, 2008
  • 1 reply
  • I have started getting this frequent nightmares somewhere around 2 am every night. Once I wake up I cannot get myself to sleep till 6 am. I feel sleepy at around 6.30 am but then I got to get up by 7.00 ...

New feature: video!

Brian
  • By Brian · New reply November 23, 2008
  • 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 ...

One year ago today...

junimead
  • By junimead · New reply November 21, 2008
  • 12 replies
  • I was sitting at this very computer looking up some silly thing or another when I started to feel faint and get the then ever increasing chest pains. A painfully long trip to the emergency room via ambulance ...

My heart story...

GrammyJoeJoe
  • By GrammyJoeJoe · New reply November 21, 2008
  • 8 replies
  • There's a funny little thing about death... In July, 2002 I got the shock of my life. I discovered that heart attacks are the leading killers of women. In fact, 8 million American women live with heart ...

What's the right answer?

Mystic
  • By Mystic · New reply November 20, 2008
  • 23 replies
  • This past Monday night at my AA meeting the subject of duel addiction came up. Someone in the meeting suggested that if anyone was taking or using other types of drugs, legal or illegal, in order to be ...

Tomorrow

Alloriea
  • By Alloriea · New reply November 19, 2008
  • 4 replies
  • Well, tomorrows the day ladies, I'm seeing yet another surgeon, this one is a specialist in Aortic Dissection and Diseases of the Aorta. I have to say I'm nervous about this one, I don't know what to ...

an update

bettyboop48
  • By bettyboop48 · New reply November 17, 2008
  • 1 reply
  • hi you wonderful awesome ladies, just a update on how i am doing i haven't been on lately posting cuz i have mess up my right hand and since i am rt handed it makes it difficult to type. anyways i am ...

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