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Hello - New Here
- By Corvetdiva · Posted 10:36 am
- In My heart disease - diagnosis and symptoms · 0 replies
- Hi. I'm new here. I had a stemi heart attack last Thursday. Anyone else have problems with nausea after coming home from the hospital? Ugh! I'm 40 btw. Nice to meet you all ...
"Not a peep about meep... " Blame the Muppets!
- By Kennarina · Posted yesterday at 6:18 pm
- In Emotional and psychological issues · 7 replies
- Just to brighten your day: Oh, my! I'm just picking myself up off the floor after I fell down laughing at this article in the Vancouver Sun newspaper about a school in Salem, Mass. re the growing tension ...
Does atrail fibrillation episode = atrial fibriallation diagnosis?
- By rody · Posted yesterday at 5:57 pm
- In My heart disease - diagnosis and symptoms · 1 reply
- Hi All: I see my GP Tues., so maybe she'll have the answer. I had tachy cardia and atrial fibrillation episode-woke up late one night with heart rate at 150 and BP at 209/190-ended up with squad ride ...
First Time Here
- By only1hart · Posted yesterday at 5:51 pm
- In My heart disease - diagnosis and symptoms · 2 replies
- Hello to all... This is my first time here and I am just learning my way around. I am finding so many interesting stories here. Most of all that I am not alone and I am very lucky for my situation compared ...
Help! Acid reflux after taking heart meds?
- By Meggali · Posted yesterday at 1:22 pm
- In Experiences with prescription medicines · 4 replies
- This is my first post and I'm really hoping to find some clues to the cause of my recent horrible bouts of acid reflux. I had a heart attack last Dec.--95% of LAD blocked, stent put in within hours, sent ...
Stent Pain
- By SteveFlorida · Posted November 20, 2009
- In Experiences with medical treatments · 5 replies
- http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:FKu nunr8RIYJ:www.scielo.br/scielo.php%3Fpid %3DS0102-76382003000400002%26script%3Dsc i_arttext+inflammation+from+coronary+ste nt&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us The above ...
What You Should Know About C-Reactive Protein
- By Ecksunbeam · Posted November 20, 2009
- In Advice for other women with heart disease · 4 replies
- Heart Health Special Report What You Should Know About C-Reactive Protein One of the key markers for measuring heart attack risk has been elevated levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol ...
Niacin Tops Zetia in Cutting Artery Plaque
- By Ecksunbeam · Posted November 19, 2009
- In Advice for other women with heart disease · 6 replies
- Niacin Slows Plaque Buildup The new study, funded by Abbott, the maker of Niaspan, involved 363 people who had heart disease or were at high risk of heart disease. All the patients were on statin drugs ...
Statins do not eliminate risk of low HDL-cholesterol levels
- By martzj · Posted November 18, 2009
- In Advice for other women with heart disease · 1 reply
- Statins do not eliminate risk of low HDL-cholesterol levels November 17, 2009 | Michael O'Riordan Orlando, FL - Low levels of HDL cholesterol, even among statin-treated patients, are associated with a ...
Heart patients lacking vitamin D more likely to be depressed
- By IngridK · Posted November 18, 2009
- In Experiences with medical treatments · 0 replies
- http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/11/16/moh .healthmag.vitamind.heart.depression/ STORY HIGHLIGHTS * Heart patients with lack of vitamin D in diet more likely to be depressed, study finds * Depression also ...
Heart Rate
- By shortcake · Posted November 17, 2009
- In My heart disease - diagnosis and symptoms · 9 replies
- My heart rate has always been high. around 80 or 90 even at resting. I am on 50 mg of atenolol. lately my heart rate has dropped in the evenings to 52 for a resting heart rate. I feel really strange ...
your symptoms of heart attack
- By shortcake · Posted November 17, 2009
- In Advice for other women with heart disease · 7 replies
- I was just wondering for those who have had a heart attack what were your symtoms and did you notice things different leading up to your heart attack> I have had some different symtoms lately and wondered ...
Anybody else sick of doctors telling you to "stop overreacting"???
- By RedneckMama · Posted November 17, 2009
- In Experiences with healthcare professionals · 13 replies
- Having been through this myself and reading TONS of biographies of other women with PPCM or any type of heart disease...I have noticed that if our doctors had listened the first time when we said "something's ...
Reopening of CABG Sternal Incision
- By C-cat · Posted November 17, 2009
- In Advice for other women with heart disease · 11 replies
- It is over a year since my original CABGx4. The incision site still leaks at the base and "proud flesh" keeps filling it, but not healing it. I just saw the plastic surgeon. They want to reopen the incision ...
ARB/ACE-inhibitor combo not recommended in CHF
- By martzj · Posted November 17, 2009
- In Experiences with prescription medicines · 2 replies
- ARB/ACE-inhibitor combo not recommended in CHF September 8, 2009 | Lisa Nainggolan Download slides Barcelona, Spain - The combination of angiotensin-receptor blockers (ARBs) and ACE inhibitors should ...
Anybody Else "Fake It?"
- By DebBar · Posted November 17, 2009
- In Emotional and psychological issues · 12 replies
- 99% of us here have some sort of heart problem. We've gone through (or going through) a life changing ordeal with surgeries, medications, and countless other things. Wonderful people like family & friends ...
functional gains follow correction of iron deficiency in heart failure
- By martzj · Posted November 17, 2009
- In Experiences with medical treatments · 6 replies
- FAIR-HF: Symptom improvement, functional gains follow correction of iron deficiency in heart failure November 17, 2009 | Steve Stiles Orlando, FL - Patients with systolic heart failure and iron deficiency ...
Hair Loss with Simvastatin & Toprol XL
- By kermit09 · Posted November 17, 2009
- In Experiences with prescription medicines · 8 replies
- Hi all! I am so glad to have come across this site. In the past 10 months I've started taking Toprol XL (50 mg) for heart palpitation and Simvastatin (20 mg) to manage my cholesterol. Since, I've notice ...
Teflon injected in vocal cord
- By Carm · Posted November 16, 2009
- In Experiences with medical treatments · 2 replies
- In 1986 I was involved in a near fatal auto accident in which I suffered a torn thoracic aorta (among other injuries) and was left with a paralyzed vocal cord. I whispered for four years and in 1991 I ...
Streisand & Dr. Noel Bairy-Merz on The Doctors
- By martzj · Posted November 16, 2009
- In Advice for other women with heart disease · 18 replies
- Cool! I never watch this ABC show, The Doctors....but just came across it the moment Dr. Bairy-Merz was talking about female vs male heart attacks. Barbra Streisand called to join in the conversation ...
