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Home yes But?????
- By MotorcycleBobbi · New reply October 19, 2009
- 2 replies
- My daughter is having trouble with her breast's again and her Dr. Just say's who knows what. I told her to call our surgon who did my work. She'll be done with this job she's on on the 23. Then she's ...
New
- By Unhappy · New reply October 19, 2009
- 14 replies
- I'm new to this website and I'm in need of support and inspiration at this point. I am 24, and I had a double bypass on April 8, 2009. I have 2 children, one of which is a 7 month old baby. Its been hard ...
I love long acting nitrates!
- By NewAllie · New reply October 19, 2009
- 24 replies
- This board has become such an important part of my life that I cannot help but feel the need to apologize for my absence. So many posts I would have responded to. So many new members I would have welcomed ...
Heart Attacks caused by Prinzmetal's Variant Angina
- By MIsurvivorX4 · New reply October 18, 2009
- 11 replies
- I am a thin, athletic, young, 47 year old mother of children ages 11 and 12, with no cholesterol or blood pressure risks and do not smoke, drink, or do drugs. I have suffered three confirmed heart attacks ...
MY KIDNEY HURTS SO MUCH....
- By sonia40 · New reply October 17, 2009
- 6 replies
- Hello all for any of you wonderful people who have read my posts in the past will know by know bout my kidney tumor (angiolypoma)...as i mentioned before it was only found by accident through an MRI....so ...
Heart Problems
- By booboo49 · New reply October 16, 2009
- 3 replies
- I am a 60 year old who has had two Aorta Valve Implant One 6 years ago one in Aug of this year. The first one started with a heart murmur that I was born with. The second one was put in because the first ...
Family??
- By Lynnedz56 · New reply October 16, 2009
- 2 replies
- My son turned 21 in July and he was living with my parents. (Long story) Anyway, in August he bought his first car and 2 weeks ago he moved out with a friend and his girlfriend. He has always come up ...
10 years and why we need to be a health advocate
- By nanamo · New reply October 16, 2009
- 3 replies
- 10 years ago today oct 15.....i had a thallium stress test a test which they could of saved me from having a massive heart attack on oct 20th 1999 and open heart surgery on ict 22nd 1999 but instead they ...
Better by a Margin
- By Michelle34116 · New reply October 16, 2009
- 1 reply
- This is what I was told yesterday that I am better by a margin. I had only lost six pounds of the fluid and the doctor was looking for a fifteen pounds to be gone in two weeks. SO he took up the lasix ...
1 Less Pill! But More Shots?
- By DebBar · New reply October 15, 2009
- 16 replies
- The week after my ICD was implanted last year, I developed an eye infection. That good ol' herpes virus that gave me the chicken pox as a kid and 2 bouts with shingles in the past 10 years decided to ...
Interesting and challinging life on the King's Highway
- By Great-gram · New reply October 15, 2009
- 2 replies
- Hi all! Life gets more and more interesting. Sunday I was speaking on being at one with the Lord through music. I played a song for our small group - a song from a tape my husband got at an auction. It ...
28years old 66 shocks in 2 days
- By lester · New reply October 15, 2009
- 6 replies
- Hi Everyone I'm just going to start from the begining. On March 7 I was out for dinner ,I stood up and fainted. Taken to our little hospital and they sent me home. I kept having episodes so they finally ...
UPDATE ON MY UPCOMING SURGERIES
- By sonia40 · New reply October 15, 2009
- 6 replies
- Hello all well its been a while since ive been on this site...mainly because ive been so busy moving home..finally settled....for those wonderful and caring people who have been reading my posts i just ...
What is going on with me?
- By Michelle34116 · New reply October 14, 2009
- 3 replies
- what is normal for us with chf. I have been on my meds 13 days( coreg 3.125 twice a day lasix 40 mg twice a day) i have lost maybe 8 pounds of the 24 pounds of fluid I put on. I have nights I can't sleep ...
Prescribed Evoxac, hydroxychloroquine, or Numoisyn Lozenges?
- By PeggyTllmn · New reply October 14, 2009
- 19 replies
- I saw the Rheumatologist for the first time recently. From my symptoms, she believes I have Sjogrens, (and possibly Scleroderma, but she is running more tests). She has prescribed three medications, which ...
One more trip......
- By 9yrsandcounting · New reply October 14, 2009
- 3 replies
- About a month ago, I made an unexpected trip to the E.R., but I chose another hospital, not the usual one. In the old one, when I went in with symptoms, they would just excuse it as anxiety and send me ...
Home again
- By mery · New reply October 14, 2009
- 11 replies
- Surgery went well,if you discount my almost full blown panic attack during the prep. Someone had asked before what type of surgery, it was replacement. My battery was dying. Had a good life though, 5 ...
An update
- By bettyboop48 · New reply October 13, 2009
- 2 replies
- Hi all Been having some problems ,it started on the 7th of this month everything went in slow motion and then got speech problems have to go get a test called a tee something like that doing that thurs ...
Fixing Things I Didn't Break -
- By gracie62 · New reply October 13, 2009
- 10 replies
- Here I go again, on a ramble -needing to vent a little. It started with a picture that fell off the wall. A special picture - one that my father (who died of a heart attack in 2000 and whose death saved ...
Just Given Prescription For Toprol
- By sillymom2 · New reply October 13, 2009
- 11 replies
- Hello All, I'm 34 and have had palpitations off and on for about 7 yrs. Finally after a holter monitor finally caught something, I was told that I'm tachycardic (over 120 BPM) 5% of the day. One doc (acutally ...
