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Have a good one

New Year resolutions for 2020 1. Use phone torch when walking in dark places 2. Learn to use phone torch 3. Call less ambulances 4. Don’t eat oysters (smashed...

New Year resolutions for 2020 1. Use phone torch when walking in dark places 2. ...

Sillyfroggy

•4 years ago

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Struggling to breathe

8 bypass grafts, 4 stents and now choking smoke. Canberra in Oz, home, currently has an air quality rating of ‘terrible’ and will persIst for another week....

8 bypass grafts, 4 stents and now choking smoke. Canberra in Oz, home, currently...

Hidden

•4 years ago

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Happy new year

Wishing you all healthy happy new yearx

Yasyass

•4 years ago

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Advice please

Hi everyone I have heart failure had an echo couple of weeks ago three months after ha ef has gone up from 20% to 30% is this good. Still waiting for MRI....

Hi everyone I have heart failure had an echo couple of weeks ago three months af...

Catlovermo2

•4 years ago

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Happy New Year!

My cosine Manfred is ready in 2020. Well he is in Oz: https://youtu.be/VmZENo1WoYs

My cosine Manfred is ready in 2020. Well he is in Oz: https://youtu.be/VmZENo1Wo...

MichaelJH

Heart Star•4 years ago

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Happy New Year!

Wishing you all a happy and healthy 2020.May we all be content and take each day as it comes.See you next year!🎆😀

Wishing you all a happy and healthy 2020.May we all be content and take each day...

lettingoffsteam

•4 years ago

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New Year Wishes

Wishing you all a Happy and Healthy New Year. xx

Mirador19

•4 years ago

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ECG Changes between when I'm lying down/sitting hunched forwards, and sitting up straight

Sorry, I can't show any examples as for some reason my phone won't let me upload a pic this time! Basically I noticed the QR wave on my ecg is much bigger...

Sorry, I can't show any examples as for some reason my phone won't let me upload...

FruitLion

•4 years ago

1 Reply

Happy New Year

Here’s hoping you have a brilliant 2020 with no heart related surprises. See you next year.

Here’s hoping you have a brilliant 2020 with no heart related surprises. See you...

NorthantsSteve

•4 years ago

3 Replies

Happy new year

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2020 HOPE EVERYONES HEART BEHAVES LOL

Wodney1966

•4 years ago

4 Replies

Happy New Year

Hope you all have a happy and healthy 2020. Here's a seasonal pictorial joke to finish off the year.

Hope you all have a happy and healthy 2020. Here's a seasonal pictorial joke to ...

SpiritoftheFloyd

•4 years ago

11 Replies

Early night!

Just want to wish all you Hearties out there a happy and healthy(well relatively!) New year.Not going out tonight for fear of alcoholic poisoning and I want to...

Just want to wish all you Hearties out there a happy and healthy(well relatively...

cowparsley

•4 years ago

26 Replies

Echocardiogram

My echocardiogram came back showing mild LV systolic dysfunction with ejection fraction of 50% LV end disatole was 5.8cm is this good or bad

My echocardiogram came back showing mild LV systolic dysfunction with ejection f...

Judy2208

•4 years ago

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111 Service

A number of times people have posted here with symptoms that need to be discussed with more qualified people Often the response is to ring 111 or 999 depending...

A number of times people have posted here with symptoms that need to be discusse...

MichaelJH

Heart Star•4 years ago

8 Replies

Happy New Year

Here's to a Happy and Healthy 2020 to you all! Thank you for being there xx

Jils

•4 years ago

7 Replies

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

We're all saying it - 'Can't believe how fast 2019 went by!' Make Merry tonight in your preferred fashion (my husband is tee-total so our Merry-making leaves...

We're all saying it - 'Can't believe how fast 2019 went by!' Make Merry tonight...

Sunnie2day

•4 years ago

13 Replies

Quick Fix Diets Warning!

NHS England have issued a warning about Quick Fix diets. These rarely work and can cause health issues including heart ones:...

NHS England have issued a warning about Quick Fix diets. These rarely work and c...

MichaelJH

Heart Star•4 years ago

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Diets

Hi I had an heart attack in May 2019 and due to conflicting diagnoses I still am having scans and various hospital visits. I was diagnosed with coeliacs...

Hi I had an heart attack in May 2019 and due to conflicting diagnoses I still am...

stillaboveground

•4 years ago

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Snorkelling and sea swimming!

What are your thoughts on doing this after a triple bypass I have been pool swimming regularly!

What are your thoughts on doing this after a triple bypass I have been pool swim...

12345bob

•4 years ago

1 Reply

Initials

Hi good morning to everyone. I have on a number of occasions had to ask what certain initials mean, I don't want to moan but it would help if people wrote the...

Hi good morning to everyone. I have on a number of occasions had to ask what cer...

stillaboveground

•4 years ago

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I c d shock

Good morning had i c d fitted in May this year after hf .On Sunday 29 December after not feeling well a couple of days watching TV had a shock .It was very...

Good morning had i c d fitted in May this year after hf .On Sunday 29 December a...

Sanpedro2019

•4 years ago

22 Replies

Need a little advice please.

One of my bucket list is flying to Orlando to Disney land and then a carabean cruise Well I had a cardiac arrest in Feb then a icd fitted in Aug. My daughter...

One of my bucket list is flying to Orlando to Disney land and then a carabean cr...

Taleah10

•4 years ago

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Angiogram after effects

Hi I had my Angiogram in October. The consultant also did a blood flow test and did pressure test on heart. During this procedure I felt my bicep area feeling...

Hi I had my Angiogram in October. The consultant also did a blood flow test and ...

Leythersrus1

•4 years ago

17 Replies

Diastolic heart failure - managing it

I was diagnosed with diastolic HF in 2017 with a preserved EF. Since then. It has deteriorated and in the last 12 months my symptoms have become much more...

I was diagnosed with diastolic HF in 2017 with a preserved EF. Since then. It ha...

Mummytlm

•4 years ago

2 Replies

Paranoid!

The ability to reply to my earlier post has been turned off! It's making me paranoid! https://youtu.be/cen1SvpTsYk

The ability to reply to my earlier post has been turned off! It's making me para...

MichaelJH

Heart Star•4 years ago

14 Replies

different location of angina pain?

sorry to bother everyone.. i suffer from mva.. usually angina pain occurs across my chest.. but since a few hours ago i’ve been experiencing a tightness...

sorry to bother everyone.. i suffer from mva.. usually angina pain occurs across...

Manhattan1

•4 years ago

5 Replies

Erratic BP, Heart Rate, Hypertension, Hypotension, Fainting

MY BP & heart rate are erratic. my BP has been 195/110 and 110/60 all readings at rest, my norm is 140/90. I faint a lot when out, I have had tests such as...

MY BP & heart rate are erratic. my BP has been 195/110 and 110/60 all readings a...

arnieatmo

•4 years ago

30 Replies

Lightheaded & Dizziness

I have been feeling very dizzy recently and generally unwell lots of palpitations when resting, GP changed atenolol to verapamil half securon sr. Yesterday...

I have been feeling very dizzy recently and generally unwell lots of palpitation...

Platypus6

•4 years ago

2 Replies

Bisoprolol and severe breathlessness

Hello I was in hospital 3 weeks ago for a scheduled angiogram and possible angioplasty. They didn’t need to do the angioplasty as I only had minor narrowing in...

Hello I was in hospital 3 weeks ago for a scheduled angiogram and possible angio...

Lynne1a

•4 years ago

12 Replies

Alcohol and stopping due to HF

My husband has been a drinker averaging 6 cans a night for around 40 years. In Aug 2019 he found himself in hospital with swelling up to his abdomen and...

My husband has been a drinker averaging 6 cans a night for around 40 years. In ...

Hidden

•4 years ago

28 Replies

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All posts for December 2019

Have a good one

Struggling to breathe

Happy new year

Advice please

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

New Year Wishes

ECG Changes between when I'm lying down/sitting hunched forwards, and sitting up straight

Happy New Year

Happy new year

Happy New Year

Early night!

Echocardiogram

111 Service

Happy New Year

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Quick Fix Diets Warning!

Diets

Snorkelling and sea swimming!

Initials

I c d shock

Need a little advice please.

Angiogram after effects

Diastolic heart failure - managing it

Paranoid!

different location of angina pain?

Erratic BP, Heart Rate, Hypertension, Hypotension, Fainting

Lightheaded & Dizziness

Bisoprolol and severe breathlessness

Alcohol and stopping due to HF

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