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A letter from your heart disease
- By martzj · Posted July 24, 2009
- In How heart disease has changed my life · 9 recommendations
- This letter is posted in Kennarina's (Carolyn) blog and is too fantastic to not also post here. Someone please check the 'recommend' box on this discussion so it will be filed away for others to more ...
To Acknowledge a Frustrating Weekend When I Just Couldn't Get Much Done
- By debs1 · Posted May 18, 2008
- In How heart disease has changed my life · 7 recommendations
- The Beta Blocker Blues I’m all tired out, I feel like hell, I’m feelin’ kinda down, My limbs feel real heavy and my face it wears a frown, I wanna hit the couch now, and take a long, long snooze Yup ...
How does it feel to have a heart attack?
- By Kennarina · Posted August 9, 2009
- In My heart disease - diagnosis and symptoms · 5 recommendations
- THANK YOU Heart Sisters, I now have many stories covering just about every possible cardiac symptom, thanks to your participation. The article featuring your stories is now posted on HEART SISTERS, my ...
All the SCAD ladies, put your hands up
- By laurahc · Posted September 23, 2009
- In My heart disease - diagnosis and symptoms · 4 recommendations
- (apologies to Beyonce') When I first got here, everyone was--and still is!--really supportive and said to "type 'SCAD' in the search bar" and read all the various discussions about spontaneous coronary ...
Things I Wish I Had Known Sooner
- By lkay · Posted April 25, 2008
- In Advice for other women with heart disease · 4 recommendations
- Hello all, I keep picking up little tidbits here and there and am surprised there isn't a list, kind of like David Letterman's top 10, of Things I Wish I Had Known Sooner .... I hope you all will jump ...
Site Formatting
- By pettit1 · Posted April 3, 2008
- In Advice for other women with heart disease · 4 recommendations
- I would like to thank the people involved for listening to our concerns regarding the changes that were made to this site. As you all know, we didn't take kindly to them. It appears as though people heard ...
Study: "Women have same heart attack symptoms as men, including chest pain"
- By Kennarina · Posted October 30, 2009
- In My heart disease - diagnosis and symptoms · 3 recommendations
- You may have come across this 'research' report in the past week. All week I've been thinking that this study on heart attack symptoms (done on patients having an elective, scheduled, non-emergency angioplasty ...
How does it really feel to have a heart attack?
- By martzj · Posted August 14, 2009
- In Advice for other women with heart disease · 3 recommendations
- Ladies, Read this exceptional collection of descriptions, sensitively edited and collaged by Carolyn Thomas (kennarina) on her blogsite and WorldPress.com link. Please pass these links forward to everyone ...
'Big Money Behind Opposition to Health Plan Legislation'
- By Kennarina · Posted August 12, 2009
- In Experiences with medical treatments · 3 recommendations
- Hello Heart Sisters, The following wisdom is from Dr. Charlotte Thompson, a pediatrician and professor of medicine at UC San Diego, and a practising physician for over 50 years. "It is hard to believe ...
Disturbing Symptoms, insight please!
- By shell1925 · Posted June 22, 2009
- In Younger women with heart disease · 3 recommendations
- Hello all! I am new to this board and found it by googling "left arm pain 30 year old". Well, anyways I am 30 (soon to be 31) and I have a 2 year old (soon to be 3) son. While I was pregnant with my son ...
memory loss after cabgx4 at 47 yrs old
- By willo · Posted February 9, 2009
- In My heart disease - diagnosis and symptoms · 3 recommendations
- Hi! I am new to this discussion group...came across it while strolling the web for info on memory lass after heart by-pass. I was 47 when I had my cabgx4, no heart attack...they said I would not have ...
Let's talk about work!
- By BklynViolet · Posted June 2, 2008
- In How heart disease has changed my life · 3 recommendations
- My question is, do most of us work full time? I've gravitated toward challenging jobs and was always really smug about my ability to handle more stress than ANYONE. Ahhh, how the mighty have fallen! MI ...
support from fellow heart patients
- By JoanS · Posted April 19, 2008
- In Advice for other women with heart disease · 3 recommendations
- i would like to correspond with women with heart disease but have not heard from anyone. i'm not sure how to find any responses if i got one. coule someone please tell me how this new thing works ...
CH 4 News interviews Allison Teger for support efforts after heart surgery
- By allytiger · Posted April 15, 2008
- In How heart disease has changed my life · 3 recommendations
- As a result of my ongoing work to increase awareness on heart disease in women (both congenital and acquired), CH 4 did a special tv segment. I was able to tell my story, discuss the importance of being ...
Taking care of mother after heart attack
- By Jesus1 · Posted April 11, 2008
- In Emotional and psychological issues · 3 recommendations
- My mother had a heart attack about a month ago, she is 77 years old and before this she worked a part-time job. She is very slow to recover, and is weak, mentally she is having trouble thinking, scared ...
are you sick of me yet????
- By kwinner · Posted April 8, 2008
- In My heart disease - diagnosis and symptoms · 3 recommendations
- - cause I'm pretty freaking sick of me at this point. Yesterday, after 4 attacks by 10am, I called the doc. He upped the Isosorp to 120mgs once a day. I felt better today, thought to myself yippee, that ...
Stop the Gloom & Doom
- By primetimelady · Posted yesterday at 1:31 pm
- In Emotional and psychological issues · 2 recommendations
- I realize that this may make me the bad guy but I don't care it is the truth. In the beginning, for the most part I found this website helpful. There are a lot of wonderful and supportive women here ...
Post MI-CABG and profuse sweating/Nausea/low body temp/pulse rate
- By Asurvivor · Posted September 28, 2009
- In Advice for other women with heart disease · 2 recommendations
- I'm 9.5 yrs post-op/post MI. Since I started doing household chores, I am soaked to the point I have to take a shower immediately after I finish any of them. If I clean out the refrigerator, I sweat ...
edema
- By shelleylynn · Posted September 19, 2009
- In My heart disease - diagnosis and symptoms · 2 recommendations
- Does anyone out there have problems with edema? I am 42, in great shape, cut out the cigarettes, changed my diet and do everything I am supposed to do. I have to take 50 mg of hctz each day and i still ...
Discouraged and Disappointed
- By joyce114 · Posted September 6, 2009
- In Experiences with medical treatments · 2 recommendations
- My hat goes off to all of you who have the tenacity to fight to find answers to your heart problems. As for me, I am throwing in the towel. Doctors continue to tell patients to "report new symptoms ...
