Heart Disease - People Who Are Living With Heart Disease

Shaymus

posted 10/30/2008, comments (0)

and I thought I was over the hump . . .

I'm a 53 year old white male in better than average shape, (or so I thought) and I just recently had a stent put in my RCA. This is my forth stent, but this one came as a complete surprise. My first introduction to coronary artery disease came at age 42. I was (and still am although not active in the field) a firefighter in a... Read more Chevron

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Laura

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posted 09/11/2008, comment (1)

Heart on the right side

Hello, I did read your comments let me say it in this way the heart on the right side is nothing to be affraid off, I have it on the right side and i have knew this since i was 5 , I live in Finland my mother told me that I am a dextrocardio I was at first affraid but than she told me about it. I am 29 years old and have two... Read more Chevron

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christine

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Atriel Fibrillation

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posted 07/25/2008, comments (10)

live for today...tomorrow never comes

Any one thats suffers with Atriel Fibrillation knows thats it can be so disabling and most Drs are clueless to this problem. Christine UK

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worlehteh

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5 yrs of palpitations, then thickened LV

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posted 07/09/2008, comments (9)

Dying slowly...

I am dying slowly and desperately need help. I live in a country just coming out of a long civil war and was victimized by effects of that war. I suffered from nearly non-stop heart palpitations for 5 years up to 2005 when I was diagnosed of cardiac dialation (hypertrophic cardiomyophathy???) by an Internist. I was told that the long years of... Read more Chevron

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mtnmom79

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MI 3-3-07, EF 28%

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posted 06/23/2008, comments (0)

The Story

I live in a remote mountain area of SoCal. It takes an ambulance 40-50 min to get here generally, but on the day of my MI we had an ambulance on the hill - because we had snow! As a result I had help within 15 min and reached the hospital 10 mi away within the first two hours. From the moment I realized I wasn't going to die that day - I became... Read more Chevron

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