ANGINA

[Red18]

Can you live long after this diagnosis?

[Sunnie2day]

OH MY!

The answer lies with the results of further investigation and follow-up consults with your GP and cardiologist as they will have determined why and what type angina you have. Meanwhile, have a look at this BHF download about angina:

bhf.org.uk/informationsuppo...

I found it quite helpful.

Your question doesn't give much information - have you had the investigations, have you been told it's stable or unstable, are you on beta blockers and/or other medications?

[Milkfairy Heart Star]

I hope so....I am still going after 7 years of living with Refractory angina!

[Red18 in reply to Milkfairy]

Hi Milkfairy. I truly hope so too.. Can go weeks and then out of the blue it returns. I am trying my best with diet and exercise. Keep well. Thankyou for reply

[Healthyheart1 in reply to Red18]

I'm still going nearly two years now. Oh by the way I was gutted when I got the diagnosis and one more thing my mum has it and she's 87. Its different to mine but I dont have to worry about it day to day. X Sheena

[Red18 in reply to Healthyheart1]

Can I ask how old are you. I'm 54

[Healthyheart1 in reply to Red18]

I'm 61, I was 59 when it was diagnosed. I had been ignoring all the signs for ages. My husband persuaded me to go to the doctors. I'm good at giving advice to family but not taking it apparently. X Sheena

[Red18 in reply to Healthyheart1]

Hi Sheena. The only medicines I am taking is aspirin and a statin 20mg. Feel very good most days then get that pain in the middle of my chest. Pain not brought on by exercise but mainly after I've eaten or the cold?? Not sure if it's angina or a ulcer. I do have heart disease. Shown up on my andiogram

[Healthyheart1 in reply to Red18]

I'm not qualified in any way but I thought they would have given you a gtn spray. Milkfairy is good at explaining . I hope you are getting further help from the doctor or cardiologist. X Sheena

[Lonmayloon in reply to Red18]

I first noticed angina on a skiing holiday in 2011 aged 52. Coming out of a warm minibus then walking up a gentle slope in freezing temperatures brought it on every time.

GP referred me to rapid access chest pain clinic for excercise test. Angiogram after that which showed up a severe blockage of the LAD. Stent fitted there and then and angina cured.

A friend had a stent fitted around same time. His angina was brought on after eating meals. The digestive system can place an increased load on the heart after a large meal.

Both of these triggers are well known so if your GP is not aware of them happening in your case you should definitely mention it.

After exercise test I was prescribed GTN spray. After stent this has been virtually unused.

[Red18 in reply to Lonmayloon]

Morning Lonmayloon. Thankyou so very much for replying. Exercise not a problem whatsoever. Thank God. But like you after eating a meal or cold weather it does. Not all the time. I am trying to follow a mainly plant based diet and exercising. I do feel better with this new regime

[Helen_BHF]

Hi Red18 , some useful links from the BHF about living with angina here:

bhf.org.uk/informationsuppo...

bhf.org.uk/informationsuppo...

Hope this helps

[Milkfairy Heart Star in reply to Helen_BHF]

Here is the link to the updated Angina information from 2017.

bhf.org.uk/informationsuppo...

[Healthyheart1 in reply to Milkfairy]

Thanks Milkfairy x

[Alisbabas]

Hi

My Nan was diagnosed at 50 and lived to the age of 92, it was dementia that she died from

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[Red18 in reply to Alisbabas]

Now hearing that really pleases me. Thankyou

[Milkfairy Heart Star in reply to Red18]

I think it pleases us all😊

[Plum53 in reply to Red18]

Me too

[Susieque21 in reply to Alisbabas]

Same with my Mum.

[Surreychica_1]

People live a long healthy life after Angina has been diagnosed it is the ones who do not know about their heart disease who are likely to suffer a heart attack. Yours is hopefully under control and I know people who have died in their 90's with angina. You do not give a lot of information. Do you have stents and what medication are on!

[Red18 in reply to Surreychica_1]

Hellooooo Surreychica_1. Having been diagnosed with heart disease has totally changed the way I eat. I am so frightened of this disease getting worse. I am only 54 and want to enjoy my years ahead if possible free of pain. I do not have stents. I take an aspirin and a statin. I was given a GTN spray last October. I hardly use. Still got plenty in it. I find weirdly if I walk/ run I feel so much better??

[LadyLaTiLa]

I am undergoing other tests for a recent ACS but thought I would reply on this as I have been talking to my neighbour after my recent scare. We have lived next to each other for 23 years, before she moved here she was diagnosed with angina, she would get tight chest and jaw ache while walking up hills. I don’t know if that is your sort of angina but thought it might make you feel better to know she celebrated her 93rd birthday last week. I hope the doctors can reassure , try the BHF pages and I have to say I try and steer clear of google as it is has too much info most of it irrelevant to most of us, your own doctors will know your situation best.

[Red18 in reply to LadyLaTiLa]

Thanks LadyLaTiLa for reassuring me. And yes you are quite correct Google can worry me. I need to stay positive as anything negative these days can stay with me for quite sometime. Have a lovely weekend.

[Routemaster]

The mother of a schoolfriend of my husband had always had angina for as long as I had known her (40+ years). She died at the age of 99!

[jerry12953]

Just to add to the comments above, my mother was diagnosed at about 62 yrs old and lived to the age of 95!

[Qualipop]

Mt dad had angina for about 12 years before he died- of cancer, not heart.

[Red18 in reply to Qualipop]

Hi Qualipop. Thankyou so much for trying to reassure me. Been so worried. Mind over working. Thanks.

[Qualipop in reply to Red18]

Understandable.