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My heart disease - diagnosis and symptoms
Discuss your diagnosis and the symptoms that led to it, or surfaced post-diagnosis.
AT WHAT POINT TO SEEK ANOTHER DOCTOR
- By jacksvern · New reply October 10, 2009
- 14 replies
- DEAR SISTERS. A QUICK RECAP FOR YOU. I WAS DIAGNOSED IN 2006 WITH HEART DISEASE. SINCE THEN I HAVE HAD SIX STENTS PLUS AS RECENT AS MARCH I HAD FIVE WAY BYPASS. STRONG FAMILY HISTORY OF HEART DISEASE ...
I'm New Here & Would Like to Introduce Myself
- By NoDayButToday · New reply October 9, 2009
- 21 replies
- I've been reading this forum for about a month, and everyone seems so kind and supportive. I thought I would jump in and say hello. I'm 44 years old, and was diagnosed with CHF two months ago. For the ...
Aortic Valve Replacement Surgery....Need all the info I can get!
- By vhmoriarty · New reply October 9, 2009
- 8 replies
- I am a 29 year old female. I was born with a heart murmur and at the age of 15 had changed to aortic valve insufficency. By 2007 it had became full blown aortic valve stenosis. My gradient then was 72 ...
Nuclear Stress Test
- By lonewolf7 · New reply October 8, 2009
- 11 replies
- Soon I will be having a nuclear stress test. All I know about it is that there is a dye injected into my arm, the cardiologist and her assistance are going to be there and all the patients are going to ...
Continued chest pain no diagnosis
- By trigrandma · New reply October 3, 2009
- 6 replies
- I have been having chest pain with shortness of breath with rest and activity for nearly 6 months. Ive had a stress(negative) and a cardiac cath also neg. My Ekgs all unremarkable. Yet I continue to have ...
Anyone like me ? LBBB, 20 EF, 45 yrs old
- By TIGGERBONN · New reply October 2, 2009
- 15 replies
- I'd like to hear from others with any similarities. If my EF doesn't mprove in 7 months (2 have passed since DX). It will be the kind that does 3 things-synchronizes the right and left signals, beats ...
Prinzmetal's angina
- By lvfrogs · New reply September 28, 2009
- 15 replies
- Hi everyone, For those of you with Prinzmetals and haven't had a heart attack, are you struggling with exercise, working in the yard, climbing stairs and many more things? The reason I ask this is because ...
Statins and Joint Pain - Am I crazy?
- By Rose · New reply September 27, 2009
- 24 replies
- Hi, I am a 58 year old woman who had a heart attack in May of 2005 at age 56. I woke up to go to the bathroom and since I was a heavy smoker I took a cigerette with me. When I got back in bed I felt sick ...
edema
- By shelleylynn · New reply September 26, 2009
- 10 replies
- 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 ...
Hi, New here.
- By donnad1959 · New reply September 25, 2009
- 9 replies
- Hi everyone, my name is Donna I am 49 and I was diagnosed with Congestive Heart Failure 7 weeks ago. For the last 3 years or so I had been to several Doctors about my systems. Swelling and pain in my ...
cardiologists
- By shelleylynn · New reply September 25, 2009
- 7 replies
- Does anyone know of the reputation fo cardiac care at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor? I am supposed to go there next month and want some background from real people on the place and the docs ...
blood pressure
- By houston · New reply September 22, 2009
- 6 replies
- I have very good blood pressure in my left arm (114/70), but the right arm reads (148/90 or even 157/?). Does anyone have this problem? It was mentioned to me about something tearing. I can't remember ...
microvascular disease
- By 1funmeme · New reply September 21, 2009
- 3 replies
- Hi, I have had a very eventful 3 years and finally made it to the point of being diagnosed with something that "is not in my head"!! I stumbled onto this site and hope that others can share how they are ...
my story
- By 1funmeme · New reply September 21, 2009
- 3 replies
- Hi, well, to begin my journey, i have to go back 3 years. I had a "mild" heart attack while sitting in the floor playing checkers with my grandson. I was sent several weeks later for a stress test and ...
Microvascular Disease
- By joyce114 · New reply September 21, 2009
- 1 reply
- I have been doing some research online about constricted vessels and came across an article about "microvascular" heart disease usually found in women. Has anyone experienced this disease? What tests ...
bypass for prinmetals
- By shelleylynn · New reply September 21, 2009
- 7 replies
- Has anyone heard of using bypass for Prinzmetals.....they bypass the artery that spasms with a healthier artery/vein from somewhere else in the body. I read an article on this some time ago and have not ...
Visit to the cardio
- By AZMommy · New reply September 20, 2009
- 3 replies
- This was a good and bad visit. I read the result from my CT scat and it showed that everything clear and I have the arteries of a 10 year old kid. It showed that my EF is 38 (they called me about earlier ...
prinzmetals angina
- By pammy1944 · New reply September 20, 2009
- 16 replies
- I would love to know of any others on here who have prinzmetals and their experiences with it ......thankyou x ...
CD of my Cardiac Cath!
- By KatheM · New reply September 20, 2009
- 26 replies
- I have a CD copy of my last Cardiac Cath! I was heavily medicated and didn't remember anything about it, the recovery room...nothing. So I asked for the CD from Medical Records. It's just like watching ...
EF Very Confusing
- By LadyLisa · New reply September 18, 2009
- 8 replies
- Hello All, I am new to this message board. I've been looking for this type of online community but it took me awhile to find. I am 38 years old with dilated cardiomyopathy. Unfortunately it's hereditary ...
