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Advice for other women with heart disease

Share what you have learned about heart disease with other women.

What You Should Know About C-Reactive Protein

• By Ecksunbeam · Posted 9:55 am
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• 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 ...

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My heart disease - diagnosis and symptoms

Discuss your diagnosis and the symptoms that led to it, or surfaced post-diagnosis.

My New Cholesterol Levels! WOW!

• By terodac · New reply 8:51 am
• 21 replies
• Been fighting taking this stupid Crestor, got it down to 5mg every other day. Changed my diet! Oatmeal every morning! No pig meat, no fast foods, and red meat once a week! Total Cholesterol 151 HDL 35 ...

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How heart disease has changed my life

How has heart disease changed your life? Share your story with other community members and offer advice and support here.

A Cold

• By Lynnedz56 · New reply November 12, 2009
• 6 replies
• I got a cold or a slight case of the flu. Low fever, some aches and cold symptoms. My cardiac rehab nurse told me t stay home as long as I have a fever, as I am contagious. But the question. With the ...

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Emotional and psychological issues

Anxiety? Depression? Fear? Discuss how your diagnosis has made you feel.

Anybody Else "Fake It?"

• By DebBar · New reply 8:55 am
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• 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 ...

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Younger women with heart disease

Discuss your diagnosis, symptoms and treatments with other young women.

How many of you work full time and are raising a family yet?

• By TooYoung · New reply November 17, 2009
• 36 replies
• I am wondering how much of a minority I truly am. How many of you ladies work ull time and do everything I am doing? I am 46, who had quad bypass in April 2008, along with a heart attack and was hospitalized ...

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Experiences with medical treatments

Discuss your experiences with medical treatments.

Stent Pain

• By SteveFlorida · New reply 3:56 pm
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• 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 ...

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Experiences with prescription medicines

Discuss your experiences with prescription medicines

Prasugrel

• By DonnaP · New reply yesterday at 6:47 am
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• I had an angioplasty last (no stent), a little over a year from my last stenting. My doctor believes that Plavix is not working for me and has prescribed a new blood thinner Prasugel. Becuase it is new ...

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Experiences with healthcare professionals

Discuss your experiences with healthcare professionals. Help others ask the right questions when seeking help.

can 2 stents put in LAD at the same time

• By srimal · New reply 11:16 am
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• My father got was having a chest pain and he did the Angiography where report says tht LAD had 90 % , other 2 had 80% blockages.. Doctor put 2 stents in the LAD overlapping (without our Consent while ...

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Experiences with alternative treatments

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Imdur headach home remedies

• By lashawnsheart · New reply November 11, 2009
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• I have been on Imdur 30mg for almost 14 days. My headaches seem to have gotten a little better. Unfortunately, my headaches are worst in the evening hours. I am trying to hang on because I have noticed ...

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