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Hands Have been Hurting
- By starre · Posted yesterday at 2:15 pm
- Journal · 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
- Journal · 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 ...
transplant success without immunosuppressants
- By martzj · Posted July 2, 2009
- Discussion in Advice for other women with heart disease · 0 replies
- Found this from Mass. General Hospital, Boston The Transplant Trick "To deal with the problem, the thymus has a system whereby it destroys all T cells that target “self.” (Problems with this system can ...
Stress Test - Assessment
- By lonewolf7 · Posted July 2, 2009
- Discussion in Experiences with healthcare professionals · 6 replies
- You all must be tired of all my questions but I do want to know as much as possible about having a heart attack and angina and what better place than among women who have experienced it. Last week I had ...
6 weeks post-surgery and still worse than before. Help!
- By lisaheart77 · Posted July 2, 2009
- Discussion in Advice for other women with heart disease · 6 replies
- Ladies, I don't often post but I am at my wits end. I'm 44 and have been pretty fit most of my adult life. After worsening shortness of breath and an increasingly loud heart murmur sent me to a cardiologist ...
ICD check-up
- By bamagal · Posted July 1, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
Statin Proble
- By sweetsue · Posted July 1, 2009
- Discussion in Experiences with prescription medicines · 1 reply
- NOTE: One of the women in my support group sent me this letter-if anyone has any suggestions please let me know!! Thank You As I mentioned at our dinner (great idea, by the way) I have been losing strength ...
A mechanical miracle- aka an ICD!
- By harmonyj · Posted June 30, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
Need some advice..
- By Cathy37 · Posted June 30, 2009
- Discussion in Younger women with heart disease · 9 replies
- I've experienced over the past 3 weeks, major dizziness, nausea, and pain in my chest sometimes, and my arm getting numb. I've started to have some swelling in my lower body also. I went to my primary ...
I FINALLY saw a new doc!!!!!!
- By sunshine3D · Posted June 30, 2009
- Discussion in Experiences with healthcare professionals · 0 replies
- I posted a message about not having a doctor to check on my ICD and follow my cardiomyopathy. As of yesterday, I now have a electrophysiologist in The Woodlands, TX (just a part of Houston). She is really ...
Road Trip!!
- By DebBar · Posted June 30, 2009
- Journal · 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
- Journal · 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 ...
Angiogram Dye Injections
- By lonewolf7 · Posted June 30, 2009
- Discussion in Emotional and psychological issues · 19 replies
- Recently, on the news, there was a segment about the dye injected into our bodies when we have an angiogram. I had an angiogram done in March 2009 and this report concerned me greatly. This dye appears ...
Nuclear Stress Test
- By redhotheartdisease · Posted June 29, 2009
- Discussion in My heart disease - diagnosis and symptoms · 3 replies
- All I know so far is that my T Wave's are more abnormal than my normal "abnormal" I find out full results Friday , but I still don't really get what that means. I had a stent in my LAD June 2003, and ...
First Day of Cardiac Rehab
- By Lynnedz56 · Posted June 29, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
Drugs that should not be taken with Prinzmetal
- By MoonFairy13 · Posted June 29, 2009
- Discussion in Experiences with prescription medicines · 1 reply
- Hello all, I have been going through a terrible time with depression so haven't been on lately. I have been doing some research on depression/ prinzmetal/ and drugs. As far as the drugs I have run into ...
Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder..it has a name??
- By eviefor3 · Posted June 29, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
Beware: crash diets can harm your heart
- By Kennarina · Posted June 29, 2009
- Discussion in Advice for other women with heart disease · 9 replies
- Hello Heart Sisters! Thinking of getting swimsuit-ready through a quickie lemonade fast, cabbage soup diet or Master Cleanse? Cardiologist Isadore Rosenfeld, MD, a professor of clinical medicine at Weill ...
Hard to get close to my husband
- By starre · Posted June 28, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
If Disney Ran Your Hospital
- By martzj · Posted June 28, 2009
- Discussion in Advice for other women with heart disease · 10 replies
- I found this article on the level 2 hospital where my heart attack was treated in 1996, etc. Looks like they've made some major changes since 2007... based on the book "If Disney Ran Your Hospital: 9 ...
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