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Exhausting and strange episodes

Over the last 2 weeks I’ve started having these episodes that I’ve never experienced before. It usually starts with pain in my shoulder, face or numbness in my...

Over the last 2 weeks I’ve started having these episodes that I’ve never experie...

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•3 years ago

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Coping With Hot Weather

Summer really seems to have arrived but hot weather can make many of us hearties struggle. I find once temperatures go over 25C despite drinking more my BP may...

Summer really seems to have arrived but hot weather can make many of us hearties...

MichaelJH

Heart Star•3 years ago

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PAD

Hi everyone, just wondering if anyone has been diagnosed with pad? If so, what's the outlook, treatment etc? Does using a gtn spray ease the symptoms? Many...

Hi everyone, just wondering if anyone has been diagnosed with pad? If so, what's...

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•3 years ago

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Heatwave...

I'd like to know if possible how you cope in this heat, I'm on a 1500ml of liquid a day restriction.. And that includes wet foods like ice cream..it doesn't...

I'd like to know if possible how you cope in this heat, I'm on a 1500ml of liqui...

Goback

•3 years ago

8 Replies

Grade 1 diastolic dysfunction, heart failure.

Recently diagnosed with grade 1 diastolic dysfunction by a echocardiogram. I would like to know your experiences with this disease, what should I expect, how...

Recently diagnosed with grade 1 diastolic dysfunction by a echocardiogram. I wo...

winabago

•3 years ago

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RX for statins

Diagnosed as having high cholesterol at age 59. Was given RX for Statins. Otherwise in good health. Was about 20 pounds overweight at time of blood test....

Diagnosed as having high cholesterol at age 59. Was given RX for Statins. Other...

bobmane

•3 years ago

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LBBB

I went to the primary dr to check up annual. They found out that I have abnormal LBBB. Again, I went to Cardiologist to explain to me. The calcium test showed...

I went to the primary dr to check up annual. They found out that I have abnormal...

tinylady2021

•3 years ago

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New heart problem

Advice needed on angiogram I have a 98% blocked and calcified left coronary artery. Lad is 97% blocked and 4 more vessels on left side77% blocked. Too...

Advice needed on angiogram I have a 98% blocked and calcified left coronary arte...

Nowel

•3 years ago

8 Replies

Pulse for Resting and sleep

I am trying to understand if it is normal pulse. When I’m very resting and my pulse showed 57. When I am in deep sleep and my pulse showed 54. Is it normal?...

I am trying to understand if it is normal pulse. When I’m very resting and my p...

tinylady2021

•3 years ago

5 Replies

Worried about this report

Would someone be able to interpret this for me?

rayk1978

•3 years ago

6 Replies

Can a switch of medication cause ectopics?

Hi all, hope someone can help with some adive, been on propranolol for 1 month and it's settled my ectopic beats down, my doctor recommended moving over to...

Hi all, hope someone can help with some adive, been on propranolol for 1 month a...

Disneylover24

•3 years ago

4 Replies

An update : now 10 weeks since my AVR

Hello all - it has taken me a while to get around to writing this and I haven’t updated since my angiogram 10 months ago. Well, am through the other side and...

Hello all - it has taken me a while to get around to writing this and I haven’t ...

Flowerfanatic

•3 years ago

17 Replies

Getting stronger

Tomorrow it will be 2 weeks I have been home. I have had a fantastic follow up by a cardiac nurse,who gave me a right bollocking. Firstly for doing too much...

Tomorrow it will be 2 weeks I have been home. I have had a fantastic follow up b...

Carluke

•3 years ago

12 Replies

What do the various troponin measures mean?

Troponin seems to be measured differently and I'm trying to find some sort of list that states what they are. At my first heart attack a Dr said that a normal...

Troponin seems to be measured differently and I'm trying to find some sort of li...

Heartattackvictim

•3 years ago

10 Replies

Side effects from Simvastatin

Because of muscle pain my statins have been changed from Atorvastatin 80mg to Simvastatin. Just wondering what side effects anyone has had from this new one...

Because of muscle pain my statins have been changed from Atorvastatin 80mg to Si...

Dossy

•3 years ago

8 Replies

Bruising

Hi folks. After stemi in april im on a pile of tablets including ticagralor and asprin. As someone who bruises easy anyway this is a nightmare. Instead of spot...

Hi folks. After stemi in april im on a pile of tablets including ticagralor and ...

Jules2021

•3 years ago

43 Replies

Pain & discomfort

Hello I had a Arotic valve replacement in oct last year I had a really bad time post op. The wound wasn.t healing took so long to close up Properly. I had...

Hello I had a Arotic valve replacement in oct last year I had a really bad time...

Berniee

•3 years ago

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Have my date for ohs

Hi everyone , last week I was told my date for surgery , Saturday July 24 . I was going to my local NHS hospital but they offered for me to go to a private...

Hi everyone , last week I was told my date for surgery , Saturday July 24 . I w...

Barb6374

•3 years ago

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1 stent.

The 3rd attempt at my stent was successful,,,,,great job done by the Royal Victoria hospital in Belfast. 👍👍👍😃

The 3rd attempt at my stent was successful,,,,,great job done by the Royal Victo...

Beachcomber1951

•3 years ago

4 Replies

Heart scan advice

I’m thinking of getting a private scan of my heart and was wondering if anyone could recommend a good company.

I’m thinking of getting a private scan of my heart and was wondering if anyone c...

Magdoryx

•3 years ago

22 Replies

Cardiac arrest, the 8%

Looking to connect with others that have experienced a cardiac arrest…..

Thefatwabbit

•3 years ago

12 Replies

heart valve leak

bootsjohn

•3 years ago

3 Replies

Recipe book recommendations

Happy Friday all. I am looking for recommendations for cookbooks. My dad left branch block (pacemaker and icd was inserted 5 days ago) and has atrial...

Happy Friday all. I am looking for recommendations for cookbooks. My dad left br...

Worried-dughter

•3 years ago

3 Replies

Clopidogrel/Aspirin alternative

I have asked this question before but just wondered if anyone might have had similar problems, both of them give me side effects which are starting to become...

I have asked this question before but just wondered if anyone might have had sim...

Hidden

•3 years ago

14 Replies

Walking in heat

Good morning I’m going out tomorrow for a day out with the wife but I’m a little bit worried about the heat I had a stent put in in October of last year and...

Good morning I’m going out tomorrow for a day out with the wife but I’m a little...

11walking22

•3 years ago

5 Replies

Out of date Levothyroxine and symptoms

I take only 50 mcg of levothyroxine daily and have done for years. I have been fine with this but recently my bloods for TSH have come back borderline, re test...

I take only 50 mcg of levothyroxine daily and have done for years. I have been f...

Kathryn1818

•3 years ago

2 Replies

Sudden jolts just as I'm falling asleep

Please can someone give me some advice on why when I'm just about to fall asleep I jolt up awake , it is terrifying me, it doesn't happen all the time but...

Please can someone give me some advice on why when I'm just about to fall asleep...

Irishmoe

•3 years ago

41 Replies

Abnormal ecg

Hi everyone, I have been having a few symptoms, which I’ve posted about previously - tight chested, lightheaded, dizzy and feeling like I’m not getting...

Hi everyone, I have been having a few symptoms, which I’ve posted about previo...

Knic

•3 years ago

2 Replies

Implantable loop recorder travel insurance

I have been turned down for travel insurance by SAGA as I have a loop recorder fitted and this means I am ‘still awaiting diagnosis for an unknown ailment’....

I have been turned down for travel insurance by SAGA as I have a loop recorder f...

Downswalker

•3 years ago

4 Replies

Confused

Having had a number of sudden acute cardiac arrests ( all but one in hospital) 7 weeks ago , I was fitted with an ICD and am now recovering at home. My...

Having had a number of sudden acute cardiac arrests ( all but one in hospital) 7...

Calmac13

•3 years ago

8 Replies

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All posts for July 2021

Exhausting and strange episodes

Coping With Hot Weather

PAD

Heatwave...

Grade 1 diastolic dysfunction, heart failure.

RX for statins

LBBB

New heart problem

Pulse for Resting and sleep

Worried about this report

Can a switch of medication cause ectopics?

An update : now 10 weeks since my AVR

Getting stronger

What do the various troponin measures mean?

Side effects from Simvastatin

Bruising

Pain & discomfort

Have my date for ohs

1 stent.

Heart scan advice

Cardiac arrest, the 8%

heart valve leak

Recipe book recommendations

Clopidogrel/Aspirin alternative

Walking in heat

Out of date Levothyroxine and symptoms

Sudden jolts just as I'm falling asleep

Abnormal ecg

Implantable loop recorder travel insurance

Confused

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