Posted on 06/11/2018 9:42:33 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Mild Heart Attack AKA a “Cardiac Event”
TBH, I thought Kudlow was close to 80 but my husband just told me he is only 70! I think, maybe, years of drug abuse have taken their toll. Plus, all that travel! Very bad for the health - example? Hillary! Trump can run rings around them all and he’s pretty smart - he doesn’t jump on planes recklessly like some of these Washington mandarins.
Wow! I’m so glad to hear your husband is alive and well. These stories are a real wake up call.
I had one too. Didn’t even know it. I’d been having angina for years. Already had two stents. This one was worse, but since I was seeing my Dr the next day I didn’t call 911. Didn’t want them to come out and arrive after it all passed and be embarrassed. (STUPID!) Any way the doc sent me to my cardiologist, she scheduled an angioplasty for the next day. Got stent number three. At my follow up with her a week later she said something like “now that you’ve had a heart attack we’re going to keep a much closer eye on you.” And said “I had a heart attack?! How come no one told me?”
The G7 must have been horrible.
There’s no such thing as a “very mild heart attack”.
Thanks MM, we were very blessed. Again, those who have minor heart attacks are very lucky, they can make life adjustments, stints, bypass whatever to continue a normal life. Ignoring the warning signs of heart problems is the killer, either sudden death or a serious heart attack which causes damage to the muscle and will eventually lead to life altering debilitation and/or early, unnecessary death.
We absolutely need to listen to our bodies. So glad for you.
“Again, those who have minor heart attacks are very lucky, they can make life adjustments, stints, bypass whatever to continue a normal life. Ignoring the warning signs of heart problems is the killer, either sudden death or a serious heart attack which causes damage to the muscle and will eventually lead to life altering debilitation and/or early, unnecessary death.”
very, very true. i’ve got bad heart genes from both parents and all four grandparents. because of early symptoms, my cardiologists watch me like a bunch of hawks, and when i report symptoms, there’s no hesitation on their parts: it’s right into the cath lab i go. there’s been a few false alarms, but I’m walking around with seven stents.
I had one “mild” infarct and a situation where there was 100% blockage of the right coronary artery by scar tissue for months (but collateral revascularization from adjacent arteries that kept me alive, but with zero “oomph”).
My main problem has been that none of my cardiac symptoms have been anywhere close to “typical”, including the symptoms from both the infarc and the blocked right artery.
However, I’ve been lucky BECAUSE I had symptoms early and know I have heart disease and don’t fool around if I think things aren’t right. OTOH, I’ve got dear friends my age with high calcium scores who have never undergone an angiogram, so that when they do finally have “the big one”, they’re likely to just fall dead instantly ...
Stay healthy and stay the course! It sounds like you are dedicated and that is what it takes. Tom my husband had atypical symptoms also, his symptoms were an irritated throat, jaw pain and sweating. He also has horrible genes, both parents died of heart problems at 67. Grandparents, uncles etc all very young as well. Tom was on the National Donor list as an A1 recipient for only fifteen days and that is because he was in perfect health other than the heart, ideal weight, never smoked, minimal alcohol etc. but yet he was dying. He is eight years out of transplant, and we live an entirely normal life. We are so blessed. His second heart attack at 45 was the wake up, his heart was damaged significantly, we did a complete lifestyle change but it did not correct the damage and scar tissue which is what lead to the transplant fifteen years later. Best wishes!
Had a 90% blockage in the left anterior descending artery. My experience was that it felt as if someone had moved my head to the side and poured a pot of hot coffee into my chest. Weirdly, I took an aspirin and fell asleep for 14 hours. Lucky I woke up. Next day, it happened again and I walked two blocks to the hospital. That's another story.
>> Lucky I woke up. Next day, it happened again and I walked two blocks to the hospital. That’s another story.<<
You are alive, right?
It would be most distressing to have a permanent democrat voter in our midst
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