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IS A STENT RECOMMENDED?

I live in Thailand and just completed a heart checkup at tbe local hospital. I've been having some pressure...

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Heart Cath

What is involved in getting a Heart Cath, including procedure and recovery time ?

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Is left anterior fascicular hemiblock serious

Hi Can anyone help me with this query . I had an ECG done yesterday and it says : Normal sinus rhythm Left...

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Just had a stint put in my heart..

Just had a stint put in my heart and I am anxious about everything to the point not sure what will happen....

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Can see pulse beating inside right arm just left o...

Hi, I have had a stent placed in my right coronary artery now for 3 years (drug eluded stent) and am on...

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Sharp chest pain

Hello, I need some advise please. I have been these sharp chest pain. It feels like a knife is...

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Weight lifting, Mild chest pain, anyone had this b...

Hi everyone, So I went into the gym today to do chest and shoulders, I usually start with dmbl bench...

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Taking both plavix and nexuim taking nexuim in the morning and plavix at bedtime is this a problem? Or is it...

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double bypass open heart surgery and recovery.

Before 2002, not having a very physically tiring job I came home after work very tired. A friend induced me...

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Before 2002, not having a very physically tiring job I came home after work very tired. A friend induced me to have a stress test. I failed and was told I had 2 blockages, I forget the percentages of the blockages. At the time I was 69 years old. I had the open heart surgery on a Thursday and went home on Sunday. Thursday I was completely out of it. Friday at 4 PM a nurse asked if I would like to get out of bed and sit for awhile. I agreed. I might add that I never asked for painkiller pinches even though some of the nurses said there was no need for me to suffer pain. I replied the pain was bearable. After sitting up in a chair for a half hour the nurse asked if I would like to go for a walk. I assented. We walked 15 or 20 steps from my bed and back. She said "had enough?" I said I thought we were going for a walk, heck I walked farther down the church aisle to marry. We walked the full length of the hallway and back. She said that is enough for today and I bowed to her expertise. Early Sat. morning my nurse and I traversed the hallway a couple of times. On Saturday My wife and 4 daughters, all of whom waited all day the day of the operation in the waiting room and were there all of Fri, all came and my wife said her brother and his wife were coming from some distance away to visit me that noon. I told my family (knowing they must have a measure of exhaustion) I was accepting no visitors, including my immediate family. They were all to leave now. All I want to do today is rest. My wife left after I threathened to have her escorted out. On a Sunday while taking my walk with my nurse a man, I did not know, had never seen nor ever spoken to walked pass me and a few steps later asked when I had been operated on, the nurse helped me swing around to face him and I told him Thursday. He then asked my name. When I told him my name he told the nurse, "I have heard enough about him. Call his home contact and tell them to come and get him.
I was religious about following their instructions with the exception of me doing more than they told me to do. I went to therapy 3 times a week where I was constantly being told to back it off. Within 5 weeks I was walking 3.6 miles a day and doing it in 51 minutes. A regimen I kept up for 6 years until I started having pain in my left knee. My orthopedist, knowing my life style said you do have some knee damage. Here are your options, if you keep pounding the pavement the damage to your knee will worsen exponentially and you may have to have knee surgery. "And that is not a pleasant recovery" or being 75 and as active as you are you need not pound the pavement, you can walk a little less of a track or treadmill that has swome give to it. I said I have walked on a track and a treadmill and they are the most boring of endeavors. What you really are saying is to stop pounding the pavement, do what daily activities i normally do with the exception of pounding the pavement and I might die before I need a knee operation. Yes, he said that is it in a nutshell. I am now pushing 80, I don't pound the pavement daily. but I do cut down trees on occasion, I swing an axe, or sledgehammer when necessary, I moe the lawn walking though I have a riding mower. And I have developed the attitude of "what will be, will be".View Thread

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Pulmonary Hypertension questions

Does anyone on the heart disease forum have pulmonary hypertension besides myself and one other person?

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Pulmonary Hypertension questions

Does anyone on the heart disease forum have pulmonary hypertension besides myself and one other person?

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Sternal Pains

I am a 50 year old male who has had CABG surgery in 12/2010, then after the sternal wires broke I had...

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My Heart

Hello everyone , Iam a 18 year old student . on occasion i have these really really sharp chest pains...

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Small Pericardial Effusion-I'm scared.

Hello, I am a 43 year old female who went in to see her doctor because I was having severe pms symptoms and...

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Sudden arrhythmia, or is it?

I was at a leadership offsite for my job and I admit there were two dinners where alcohol (red and white wine)...

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I was at a leadership offsite for my job and I admit there were two dinners where alcohol (red and white wine) were consumed in large quantities, myself included. After the first night of wine I went to bed around 1 AM (we had long work days at this offsite, generally from 9 AM to midnight with breaks for lunch and dinner) and the next morning I woke up with terrible pain in my chest and a feeling of my heart skipping beats and racing to catch up.

I am a 37 year old male who was diagnosed with GERD when I was 28. While I'm a non-smoker I've made several lifestyle changes in the past ten years, losing nearly 50 pounds and no longer eating late at night. For the most part I'm very healthy; I work out three times a week and walk everywhere so I get plenty of activities.

When this sudden pain occurred I figured it was due to acid reflux but after a day of this pain and this "flip-flop" feeling in my heart where it would feel like a sudden contraction and bout of light-headedness I went to my local physician who listened to my heart and did an EKG and found everything normal. I was worried because my father had his heart attack at 52 and there is a history of hypertension and high cholesterol in my family but my doctor told me there were no indications that I was having any type of heart attack.

I've read some about premature ventricular complexes (PVC's) and how they could be brought on by stress or GERD and such--does this sound like the case? I've taken my blood pressure and it appears normal (average resting pulse of 72 and pressure of 125/73) but I've never had this "flip-flop" feeling in my heart before. I'm probably just over anxious about it which is just contributing to it and again I have a normal EKG and heart reading but with my family history I'd just like to make sure.

How long after a massive acid-reflux attack would this feeling continue? I no longer have the burning chest pain associated with acid reflux but could these PVC like symptoms continue on for a few more days? So far it has not affected my lifestyle, I worked out at the gym yesterday including cardio without issue but these sudden feelings of my heart going thump are disconcerting and I just want to make sure I'm not ignoring something larger.

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Pulmonary Hypertension

I just got results back from my echocardiogram and it shows a PA of 50-55. Dr called and is scheduling lung...

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Heart Blockage

Dec. 23,2011 I had open heart surgery. Aorta Valve replacement. I had a Nuclear Stress test performed on...

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Moderate Mitral Stenosis

HI, Now My wife is 11week Pregnant and has been detected Rheumatic Heart Disease, Moderate Mitral Stenosis...

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I feel like a moron !

Hello ! I just came back from the heart doctor ! I feel like a moron , he asked me since I have Fibro what was...

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Post-Open Heart Surgery - What Type of Pain Is Exp...

Is the recovery experience post-open-heart surgery different for men than women? It took me 3 months because of...

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Pulmonary Hypertension

I am a 55 yrs old female with mild pulmonary hypertension. I believe the number is 37. It has been about the...

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Angiogram Result

My angiogram after a recent MI indicated no significant coronary artery disease, but, "Evidence of a...

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Advice/suggestions/anything needed!

I am 31 years old, and 8 months ago, I had to have open heart surgery. I had an ASD and mitral valve...

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Heart

Hi, Today I was told that my heart is within the limits of normal in size. I am very worried do I have to...

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Heart

Hi, Today I was told that my heart is within the limits of normal in size. I am very worried do I have to...

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Brain damage, kidney? I don't know whats wrong :/?

Brain damage, kidney? I don't know whats wrong ?[br>Hi, I have been having headaches lately and have...

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Is there any website that include stent informatio...

I am student that research blood vessel stent in Seoul, Korea. please recommend me some website that are...

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Heart pounding pvc's after stress test..very scare...

Hey doctor hey people i had an episode of chest pain and shortness of breath about 3 weeks ago.I went to the...

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Heart Pounding PVC'S FOR A WEEK AFTER STREE TEST!

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Heart Disease and back pain

I had a stint put in on March 26th, and have been doing research since then. Come to find out that chest...

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