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Younger women with heart disease

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

Need some advice..

Cathy37
  • By Cathy37 · New reply 8:19 am
  • 9 replies
  • I've experienced over the past 3 weeks, major dizziness, nausea, and pain in my chest sometimes, and my arm getting numb. I've started to have some swelling in my lower body also. I went to my primary ...

Disturbing Symptoms, insight please!

shell1925
  • By shell1925 · New reply 7:24 am
  • 17 replies
  • 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 ...

spontaneous coronary artery dissection and spasm

nancygrace
  • By nancygrace · New reply yesterday at 1:01 pm
  • 9 replies
  • Anyone else with this condition, no other heart disease risk factors age 44. I am symptom free about 5 months later ( 2 heart attacks late Aug '07) . Discontinued medications except aspirin ...

spontaneous coronary artery dissection - a research

Odia
  • By Odia · New reply June 30, 2009
  • 50 replies
  • Hi everybody I had a heart attack 8 months ago, as a result of spontaneous coronary artery dissection. The ability to share feelings and professional information with others in this site really helped ...

Getting Better!

kamrynsmom
  • By kamrynsmom · New reply June 28, 2009
  • 8 replies
  • Hey all! Just wanted to pass along that I had a 3D echo scheduled last Monday, June 15th and I got a call from my cardiologist on Tuesday, June 23. My ef is now 45-50%! I know it doesn't sound like much ...

Has anyone gotten pregant after a heart attack?

icequest
  • By icequest · New reply June 23, 2009
  • 10 replies
  • I'm 33 and I have a 3 year old. About 3 months after he was born I had a MI. I was wondering if any other women have had a baby after a heart attack and what were the results. Was the baby healthy? Were ...

upcoming valve surgery

Saskia
  • By Saskia · New reply June 22, 2009
  • 12 replies
  • Hello, sorry I am sure this has been asked a lot, but I wanted to learn more about what to expect after my heart valve surgery which I will have in the next few months. I have read all the hospital materials ...

Unusual symptoms in a 22-year-old?

Maggie2886
  • By Maggie2886 · New reply June 20, 2009
  • 5 replies
  • Hi everyone - I found this site via some Googling and so far it's been very helpful :-) I came home last night around 11 PM after working an event and had some arrhythmia, which I attributed to some alcohol ...

Echo Results are Finally In

SteelsCharm
  • By SteelsCharm · New reply June 17, 2009
  • 20 replies
  • Hey everyone..I finally got my results back from my echo today..sadly to say it was thanks to my family Dr that called me before my Cardio office did! anyhow..not really positive what this is as I am ...

Chest pain

crystalok2009
  • By crystalok2009 · New reply June 16, 2009
  • 9 replies
  • I am a 30 year old female smoker who has a family history of heart disease I have been experience chest pain for the last month consistently and am getting really scared. Am I too young to already be ...

Meds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

jazzyladee
  • By jazzyladee · New reply June 16, 2009
  • 11 replies
  • I would like to know............... will I have to take all these meds for rest of my life? even if my heart gets back up to what it should be? I hate to tell you all i feel so much better when I miss ...

Cleveland Clinic 2nd opinion/SCAD/aneursym

HollySS
  • By HollySS · Posted June 16, 2009
  • 0 replies
  • I am reaching out to see if anyone has gone to Cleveland Clinic re:SCAD diagnosis or 2nd opinons? I am considering and wanted to know how appointments went etc? I am 35yo with no risk factors, had CABG ...

estrogen/angina link?

jstmre
  • By jstmre · New reply June 16, 2009
  • 5 replies
  • I have Prinzmetal's variant angina and although I am on 325mg of aspirin, norvasc and nitro (as needed) I still have occasional "issues" of chest pain. Was wondering about the "time of month" and it's ...

symptoms of scad

royaltudor
  • By royaltudor · New reply May 29, 2009
  • 8 replies
  • Hi Everyone, I am just wondering what the symptoms are for SCAD? I was told by an ovarian cancer nurse over the phone last week that my PET scan shows a dilated thoracic aorta, but that my oncologist ...

not too well

ally1985
  • By ally1985 · New reply May 26, 2009
  • 6 replies
  • hi everyone... thought id give you all another update. i saw dr heupler on wed he is a coronarty artery specialist and he ordered a few tests for me. i had a TEE where they put a camera down my throat ...

Dilated Thoracic Aorta?

royaltudor
  • By royaltudor · New reply May 23, 2009
  • 7 replies
  • Hi Ladies, I'm new here and I'm just so scared I am hoping someone can tell me a little more about this thing. On Tuesday this week I went to the hopital to have a PET/CT scan as a 3 month follow-up to ...

cleveland clinic (finally here)

ally1985
  • By ally1985 · New reply May 21, 2009
  • 7 replies
  • hi everyone im sorry i havent been intouch with you sooner. i arrived at the cleveland clinic on sat and my first appointment was today for a few tests and the cardiologist. everything seems to be going ...

After the By-pass

rosepetals68
  • By rosepetals68 · New reply May 14, 2009
  • 1 reply
  • I am curious after undergoing a double bypass in 2006 (use of internal mammary artery) if another blockage in the internal mammary artery would result in chest pains or pain behind the breast. Someone ...

Cardiomyopathy

AlaskaGirl
  • By AlaskaGirl · New reply May 13, 2009
  • 8 replies
  • I received news today that the 41 year old daughter of a friend of mine has just had a diagnosis of cardiomyopathy. She is on a regimine of medication but is also having trouble with her kidneys as well ...

Dancing on her prom night

Kennarina
  • By Kennarina · New reply May 12, 2009
  • 8 replies
  • Hello Heart Sisters Here is a touching story that made my day! As an 8-year-old girl from Michigan was headed into surgery for a heart transplant, she asked Dr. Mike Ackerman — a pediatric cardiology ...

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