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My heart disease - diagnosis and symptoms
Discuss your diagnosis and the symptoms that led to it, or surfaced post-diagnosis.
Heart Rate
- By shortcake · New reply 7:58 pm
- 6 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 ...
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 ...
Coroanary Artery spasms
- By janohere · New reply November 17, 2009
- 3 replies
- I am 62 and I had a heart attack in Jan. 2006, was air lifted to Miami. I got two stents and was sent home 4 days later. I felt pretty good was walking daily but still had chest pains. When I returned ...
Heart attack pain but not a heart attack
- By jdianne · New reply November 16, 2009
- 6 replies
- For 16 years I have had about 8 bouts of what feels like a heart attack. The first few times I went by ambulance to the hospital. I was told I had angina and no heart damage showed up from tests. I was ...
angioplasty experience and no insurance
- By karens10s · New reply November 15, 2009
- 8 replies
- My name is Karen and I am new to this forum. I will also tell you I was a Critical Care RN ICU/CCU for 35 years. Up until this past August I was an active tennis player for many years. I have a long history ...
just havnet been feeling well
- By nanamo · New reply November 14, 2009
- 5 replies
- i havnet been feeling good since my meds were changed from coreg cr to generic....... i need to call her and let he rknow i have had pressur ein my chest and discomfort where my icd is the other night ...
All the SCAD ladies, put your hands up
- By laurahc · New reply November 13, 2009
- 45 replies
- (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 ...
SCAD research UPDATE
- By KAKLeon · New reply November 13, 2009
- 7 replies
- November 3, 2009 Great news!!! Dr. Hayes would like to review an initial group of spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) records for purposes of developing the research protocol. She’d like about ...
Chest pain and nitro
- By phorsenuf · New reply November 10, 2009
- 11 replies
- Back in June I had a heart attack. They did a cath but found no significant blockage or anything. Today I and having some chest pains, a tightening feeling and a bit into my back. Nothing in the arm like ...
CHEST PAIN NOT CARDIAC AFTER OPEN HEART SURGERY
- By Penjudy · New reply November 10, 2009
- 7 replies
- 8 weeks after open heart surgery, I am having a constant pulling, painful sensation on the right side of my chest, made much worse by sneezing or coughing. So far physicians tell me just to give it time ...
Orthostatic Hypotension
- By Laura99 · New reply November 10, 2009
- 9 replies
- Does anyone else with heart failure suffer from severe dizziness and drop in blood pressure when standing? I have days I almost black out when I stand up. My hands and my face go numb and I get severe ...
Prinz's Metal Angina
- By Rojan · New reply November 9, 2009
- 15 replies
- I'm looking for someone who has this problem, I've been dealing with this for 14 yrs now and its really getting the best me of, in the past month I've been in the hospital twice and my last visit I had ...
Question regarding Echo and Stress Test Results
- By south127 · New reply November 8, 2009
- 12 replies
- I reeived a copy of my Echo and Stress Test Results (performed last month). I'm confused (which seem to be a perpetual state:-)...maybe some one could clarify thos seeming disparity. The ejection fraction ...
heres me
- By danhartman1959 · New reply November 8, 2009
- 4 replies
- im a 50 year old guy with dialated cardiomayopathy this week was implanted with a crtd but the shocl theapy is off ef is up around 35% si dr really thinks thats safe for me time will tell this heart stuff ...
Study: "Women have same heart attack symptoms as men, including chest pain"
- By Kennarina · New reply November 7, 2009
- 14 replies
- 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 ...
Cholesterol Levels - What should they be post MI?
- By GraceAnnStewart · New reply November 6, 2009
- 3 replies
- Hi Heart Sisters, I know I have read some where that cholesterol levels for post MI people should be lower than what is recommended for the average non-MI person. But I can't find that info and my cardiologist ...
Prinzmetal Questions
- By katie_colorado · New reply November 5, 2009
- 12 replies
- Do any of you guys have this angina pain last all day? I have had chest pain now for a couple yrs, I usually wake up with it in the morning, and it will increase in severity. The pain is center chest ...
Memory
- By Lynnedz56 · New reply November 4, 2009
- 35 replies
- I have a question. I seem to NOT being able to remember things like I used to. On Mother's day my son bought my daughter a beautiful mother's ring. I was there when he gave it to her. Yesterday I was ...
SCAD -- new research opportunity
- By KAKLeon · New reply November 3, 2009
- 23 replies
- I'm writing with great hope for all of us spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) survivors. At this moment, there are at least 84 documented SCAD experiences on this message board. Fifty-nine of ...
Has anyone been dual diagnosed?
- By denisePA · New reply November 3, 2009
- 9 replies
- I don't mean mentally, what I do mean is do you have stomach ailments like I do that can mimic heart problems or anything else. I have chronic pancreatitis (etiology unknown) but it's full blown & flares ...
