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Mystic
  • By Mystic · Posted yesterday at 7:56 pm
  • Journal · 7 replies
  • Yesterday I attended my 3rd AA meeting. Somehow it has turned out quiet differently than I had thought it would. I am very pleased to have joined in the meetings. Everyone is so nice and so awesome when ...

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rody
  • By rody · Posted yesterday at 2:53 pm
  • Discussion in My heart disease - diagnosis and symptoms · 7 replies
  • Hello All: I think I posted inappropriately earlier, so I am asking what is the best way to go about using this site? When & how is it best to post? It looks like there are many established groups of ...

The angio is over and now it's surgery

kshroed
  • By kshroed · Posted yesterday at 1:25 pm
  • Discussion in My heart disease - diagnosis and symptoms · 2 replies
  • I had the angio (and it wasn't as bad as I had been expecting.) The diagnosis is a bad mitral valve (not news) and now I must have surgery. The good news is that all of my arteries are "clean as a whistle ...

Many questions...so few answer

south127
  • By south127 · Posted yesterday at 11:50 am
  • Discussion in My heart disease - diagnosis and symptoms · 12 replies
  • Hello My Heart Sisters, I read these wonderful discussions daily and they have provided so much insight to my life. I have a question hopefully, one you ladies can answer. I have atrial tachycardia (which ...

The Best Foods for Your Heart

Ecksunbeam
  • By Ecksunbeam · Posted yesterday at 9:11 am
  • Discussion in Advice for other women with heart disease · 0 replies
  • http://yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com/hear t-healthy-diet.html?nlcid=hr|08-29-2008| http://video.yourtotalhealth.ivillage.co m/player/?id=263977&nlcid=hr|08-29-2008 ...

Slipping Through My Fingers

Sister4
  • By Sister4 · Posted August 28, 2008
  • Journal · 7 replies
  • I'm sitting in a hotel in Sherman, Texas. I moved my daughter into college today (Austin College here in Sherman). My husband and 12 year old son are in Indianapolis, where my son is participating in ...

So You Want to Quit Smoking?

Ecksunbeam
  • By Ecksunbeam · Posted August 28, 2008
  • Discussion in Advice for other women with heart disease · 3 replies
  • http://thirdage.healthology.com/hybrid/h ybrid-autodetect.aspx?focus_handle=healt hy-aging&content_id=2517&brand_name=thir dage http://thirdage.healthology.com/hybrid/h ybrid-autodetect.aspx?focus_handle=healt ...

I Can't go to sleep

shortcake
  • By shortcake · Posted August 28, 2008
  • Discussion in Emotional and psychological issues · 6 replies
  • It is 11:30 and I am, was lying in bed trying to go to sleep after an exhausting day with kids.My body is so tired, my head is tired, but my heart is thumping and skipping and I am short of breath. I ...

Game on!!! My weight rant!

1spudcat
  • By 1spudcat · Posted August 28, 2008
  • Journal · 15 replies
  • I have been reading all these posts about exercise, people who have lost weight or need to lose weight. So I need to share this post/rant!!!! Most of my life I was such a jock but it had to be a team ...

Today's News about Pat

pjalford
  • By pjalford · Posted August 28, 2008
  • Journal · 2 replies
  • I spoke with Bill twice today... The first time he and middle daughter Melody (there are 3) were at the hospital, in the cafeteria, getting something to drink and snack on while waiting for Pat's double ...

Something nice to share......

Mystic
  • By Mystic · Posted August 28, 2008
  • Journal · 2 replies
  • Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there, I do not sleep, I am in a thousand winds that blow, I am the softly falling snow. I am the gentle showers of rain, I am the field of ripening grain ...

I am alive, get an ICD

Rupert
  • By Rupert · Posted August 28, 2008
  • Discussion in Advice for other women with heart disease · 7 replies
  • Okay , I am a man, so this is for men and women. Last Thursday I had 19, yes 19, shocks from my ICD within about 15 minutes. Mine is set to go off at 200 beats per minute. I would not be here , after ...

Help, I've fallen off the treadmill, and I can't get back on.

parcan
  • By parcan · Posted August 28, 2008
  • Discussion in Advice for other women with heart disease · 7 replies
  • Has anyone else had trouble maintaining exercise? I do good for a while, then it just kind of...well...dwindles. Anyone made a successful transition to getting exercise incorporated regularly? How did ...

SYMPTOM CHECKER (Harvard Medical School)

Ecksunbeam

Old Age, I've decided, is a gift.

SandyW
  • By SandyW · Posted August 28, 2008
  • Journal · 12 replies
  • I received this from a friend & relative today and just had to pass it along. Hope you enjoy it, I know I sure did... I am now, probably for the first time in my life,the person I have always wanted to ...

Me again

shortcake
  • By shortcake · Posted August 27, 2008
  • Discussion in Emotional and psychological issues · 3 replies
  • I had an episode yesterday of angina. It was my first. I called my cardio doc and the only thing he wanted to do was an EKG. My dad had an EKG done(NEG) and 2 days later had a heartattack. I decided not ...

hysterctomy and heart disease

mrsmoto
  • By mrsmoto · Posted August 27, 2008
  • Discussion in My heart disease - diagnosis and symptoms · 8 replies
  • I am 39 and just had a total abdominal hysterctomy . with one ovary removed. 2yrs ago found out that i have svt and angina. My dr. did not want to take both ovaries because of my heart condition and said ...

Go Red 4 Women and TV

Ecksunbeam

L-arginine and the Heart

Ecksunbeam

Privacy and control

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted August 27, 2008
  • Journal · 41 replies
  • At Inspire, we think about privacy all the time. Virtually every web site has a privacy policy; you can read ours here: http://www.inspire.com/about/privacy/. But simply following the letter of a privacy ...

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