Advice for other women with heart disease

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The Sleep-Heart Heath Connection

MD-Wilkie
  • By MD-Wilkie · New reply 2:23 pm
  • 30 replies
  • Anyone else have problems sleeping? According to new research, it may be taking an especially high toll on your heart. By now we've probably all heard that getting the right amount affects all aspects ...

How to restart your life

OscarTGrouch
  • By OscarTGrouch · New reply May 15, 2013
  • 3 replies
  • I had a SCA in July. 10 months ago. I was hospitalized for four months. I'm home, regaining my strength, endurance. How do you restart intimacy with your husband? I have this fear of my ICD going off ...

Pesky pvc's are driving me INSANE!

Dootles
  • By Dootles · New reply May 15, 2013
  • 8 replies
  • Hi girls, I just know if I put this out there someone may know what I am speaking of so I know if I should plant a bug in my cardiologists ear. Ok so I have always had pvc. On and off but more on then ...

Six months and I missed the anniversary

Liz_in_Missouri
  • By Liz_in_Missouri · New reply May 14, 2013
  • 9 replies
  • I just now realized that I didn't even think about the anniversary day this month--for the first time since I had quadruple plus bypass surgery! So now, I am officially six months and ONE DAY past surgery ...

Sedentary Lifestyle Causes More Deaths Than Smoking!

cajngrl
  • By cajngrl · New reply May 14, 2013
  • 7 replies
  • The below is an interesting read. I think that we are all well aware of the benefits of regular daily exercise, but unfortunately, many of us choose NOT to implement an regular exercise routine. Many ...

ABC news on heart disease & depression

SueHE
  • By SueHE · New reply May 9, 2013
  • 17 replies
  • Medical experts say many Australians with heart disease are suffering undiagnosed depression which is impeding their recovery. Last year about 22,000 Australians had their lives cut short by heart disease ...

Chest Pain / Right Side, Rib Cage

AnnieMorooney
  • By AnnieMorooney · New reply May 6, 2013
  • 3 replies
  • Can anyone tell me if they have had chest pains under their right breast and in the right upper back? I went to an ER several years ago and they told me it was the intercostal muscle, gave me Vicodin ...

Singing and Angina

Jenmer
  • By Jenmer · New reply May 5, 2013
  • 15 replies
  • I have posted elsewhere on this site about singing and angina and have found that it is starting to happen to me. Very frustrating. Today though we went to hear a tribute to Etta Jones. It was wonderful ...

New Here

BayTeach
  • By BayTeach · New reply April 30, 2013
  • 7 replies
  • I am a 41 year old mother to three daughters (13 and 14 and stepdaughter 20) from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. I am a also a 4th grade teacher. A week before my 41st birthday, out of the blue, I had ...

Motivational Poem

Nattalie
  • By Nattalie · New reply April 28, 2013
  • 4 replies
  • The Victor by: C. W. Longenecker If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you like to win but think you can't, It's almost a cinch you won't. If you think you'll ...

New name

noahsgrannie
  • By noahsgrannie · New reply April 25, 2013
  • 12 replies
  • Now that we've heard that there is an Al Quada newspaper by the name of Inspire, I suggest that the name of this forum be changed. thanks, Arlene ...

Amazing Results

jacksvern
  • By jacksvern · New reply April 23, 2013
  • 3 replies
  • Hello friends. I had to share some great results with you. I have been on meds for ten plus years for high cholesterol and tryglizerides. Meds have been had max for more than six years. I am 55 yrs old ...

MY HEART!!!

dallasbaby
  • By dallasbaby · New reply April 21, 2013
  • 4 replies
  • Hi Everyone...Gosh it's been awhile since I've been on here....I have an important question for all my heart sisters...Since my HA Aug. of 2010 I have had angina....My heart Dr. has me on sooo many meds...I ...

heart problem and knee replacment

lubyloo
  • By lubyloo · New reply April 17, 2013
  • 2 replies
  • I have angina and fibromyalgia, my blood pressure is high but can drop very low 50/35 at night, I had a stent fitted 14 month ago but my breathing as started to get bad due to the angina, I am about to ...

Advice please

blueangel1981
  • By blueangel1981 · New reply April 17, 2013
  • 13 replies
  • A few days ago I was feeling light headed and nauseated. I also had stabbing pain in my chest. I was rushed to the hospital. They hooked me up to a machine and I was told I was fine. They gave me 2 types ...

yarnkitty

sharola
  • By sharola · New reply April 14, 2013
  • 30 replies
  • Has anyone heard from yarnkitty ...

Sternum pain during bronchitis after OHS

TooYoung
  • By TooYoung · New reply April 13, 2013
  • 3 replies
  • I am five years post op quad bypass. I have been suffering from a bad case of bronchitis of over the past two weeks. The incision site on my sternum is particularly painful and tender, likely due to all ...

Edema with Calcium Channel Blockers?

nan1948
  • By nan1948 · New reply April 13, 2013
  • 13 replies
  • I started Verapamil about a month ago (40mg/TID), upped to 80mg/BID a week ago, and voom!, getting edema in my right leg. Anyone else get/have edema on calcium channel blockers ...

I dont know what to think! Please give advice.

Dootles
  • By Dootles · New reply April 11, 2013
  • 11 replies
  • So some of you know me and also know that I come with emotional baggage. I suffer from anxiety and fear heart attack or anything with the heart due to both of my parents dieing early of heart attacks ...

It's never to late to improve your Telomeres

MaryLG
  • By MaryLG · New reply April 10, 2013
  • 3 replies
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/09/scienc e/elizabeth-blackburn-molecular-biologis t-charts-her-own-course.html?hpw&_r=0 ----------- This NY Times article profiles a scientist who understands that chronic ...

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