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Younger women with heart disease
Discuss your diagnosis, symptoms and treatments with other young women.
Putting On The Weight
- By kamrynsmom · New reply July 26, 2009
- 3 replies
- When I had my beautiful little girl 3 years ago, I knew that I would have some weight to loose after she was born. I had gained 60 lbs during my pregnancy! Well, 3 years later, I am still packing about ...
toprolol xl
- By ally1985 · New reply July 15, 2009
- 9 replies
- hi everyone, hope all you ladies are doing ok. i havent been on here for a while so just checking up on all of you. i have a little problem at the moment, when i was at the cleveland clinic they placed ...
Broken blood vessels in my eyes?
- By Sarcasma40 · New reply July 7, 2009
- 3 replies
- Hi Sisters, I have been absent for a while, but I am having some struggles that you lovely ladies can probably lend some insight to. About a month ago I developed a severe oral infection, because I grind ...
spontaneous coronary artery dissection and spasm
- By nancygrace · New reply July 5, 2009
- 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 ...
Need some advice..
- By Cathy37 · New reply July 4, 2009
- 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 ...
Getting Better!
- 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?
- 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 ...
Unusual symptoms in a 22-year-old?
- 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
- 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
- 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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- 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
- 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 ...
symptoms of scad
- 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
- 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?
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 ...
Happy Mother's Day!
- By kamrynsmom · New reply May 12, 2009
- 12 replies
- I justed wanted to say "Happy Mother's Day" to all you moms out there. It's a tough job and heart disease doesn't make it any easier but it's all so worth it. I love my daughter more than words can express ...
