Angina - How Did That Happen ? Any Experiences to Share ?

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[Doc333]

I had the heart Attack three years ago with more or less the same simptoms as Doc333 I also did the Blues & Twos to Leeds and had a great team waiting to stent me up and felt great in no time.

I was out on the bike at the time (I can`t play golf) but I am also a none smoking healthy eater so it came as a shock but was back on the bike in a few weeks and am now fitter than I was before.

I missed out on the burgers in Leeds but they do a cracking Steak Pie.

Thanks to anyone reading this from the LGI keep up the good work.

Tyke I agree 100% with the sentiment about the specialist teams at the LGI. Brilliant is all I can say, and having to put up with the garbage back in Cheshire from overworked staff that don't have the time. I still get calls from Leeds now to see how I'm doing. It took my local hospital in Crewe 4-months to get in touch and give me an appointment, I'm still fuming about that and just feel so lucky to have had the attack in Yorkshire otherwise I wouldn't be here now.

Lard with regard to your meds i'm on 2 of them the ramopril which I will be on for life and the doseage increased as long as it sorts my blood pressure. The Artothingybob which is the largest tablet in the world (Statins) I'm on a course of 5 meds (take one twice) and they will be with me for life now but coping pretty well with them now.

 

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Ramipril, Atorvastatin, Bisoprolol Fumarate, Aspirin, and Ezetimibe.
My BP and cholesterol are pretty good and I am very lucky not to have any side-effects.
I cannot thank all the people at Hammersmith Hospital, West London enough. I had never spent a day in hospital before in my life. They were simply fantastic.

 

[midliferider]

Interesting to read these stories.
I have had false belief that if I take regular exercises like running and cycling, keep my weight down, eat healthy, do not smoke and drink only in moderation, I will be spared of heart problems as I get older.
Perhaps that old joke is true. People like us do not live longer but life is too boring that it feels like we have lived long.

 

[PK99]

Ramipril, Atorvastatin, Bisoprolol Fumarate, Aspirin, and Ezetimibe.
My BP and cholesterol are pretty good and I am very lucky not to have any side-effects.
I cannot thank all the people at Hammersmith Hospital, West London enough. I had never spent a day in hospital before in my life. They were simply fantastic.

Atorvitsatin AND Ezetimbe?? why both?

I was on Atorvistatin (which block production of cholesterol) but it eventually (probably after interaction with one of a range of antibiotics) induced a form of discoid lupus, i was then moved to Ezitimibe which block uptake of cholesterol into the bloodstream.

 

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Atorvitsatin AND Ezetimbe?? why both?

I was on Atorvistatin (which block production of cholesterol) but it eventually (probably after interaction with one of a range of antibiotics) induced a form of discoid lupus, i was then moved to Ezitimibe which block uptake of cholesterol into the bloodstream.

I had been on Atorvastatin for a year and had a routine visit to the cardiologist last September. My LDL was 2.0 which is OK. She said she wanted to try to get it down to 1.5 mmol/L because that level might halt any plaque progression, or even reverse some existing. That's why she added Ezetimibe. I just take the pills, Guv....
I'm due for another visit to see her in January.

 

[Doc333]

Interesting to read these stories.
I have had false belief that if I take regular exercises like running and cycling, keep my weight down, eat healthy, do not smoke and drink only in moderation, I will be spared of heart problems as I get older.
Perhaps that old joke is true. People like us do not live longer but life is too boring that it feels like we have lived long.

I was just like you, a guy who thought he was indestructible. My attack was brought on by stress at work, lack of sleep etc, and none of us know if we have a dodgy artery and my cholesterol was low too, so the blockage couldn't be predicted.

 

[Lard Armstrong]

Lard you should thank the heavens mate and should be feeling chuffed to bits as your problem will soon be gone. I have always been fairly fit even though I stopped cycling around 20-years ago, but always played at a high standard at football and was still playing at that level when I hit 40. On top of that I enjoy walking and playing a lot of golf. Fairly slim, muscle tone and fairly happy with life.

Playing golf in April I started sweating and feeling lax, just as if I hadn't eaten. I like you started to have a tight chest and throat. I played my next shot and started walking to my ball when I couldn't walk anymore. I went down onto my knees and was gasping for breath. After a few minutes sat down and drinking water I managed to get up and walk (Slowly) to the car park, where an ambulance was called. The paramedics hooked me up and soon decided i had a heart attack. Shocked was an understament and I was given blue lights and whistles all the way from Malton to Leeds bypassing 3 hospitals to get me to the specialist care place. Crash team waiting for me and I watched on 2 screens a stent being fitted to an artery. Within 45-minutes I was wheeled up onto the cardiac ward and I had not felt this good for ages. I felt like I could run a marathon as I had lived with ablocked artery for ages apperently and it finally gave out. 5-minutes on the ward and I kid you not they had served me a burger for lunch I was released 2 days later and told not to overdo things as it would take at least 6-weeks before everything settled down. I was playing golf within a month, walking and went through the full 8-session cardiac rehab course and felt really good.

2-weeks ago I decided to get back into cycling to keep my fitness levels up and so bought a bike and as a newbie I'm trying to put a few miles on.

So it sounds like you will be having a stent fitted mate, and you wont feel a thing (Just dont watch him shoving the stuff into your vein, watch it happen on screen) You will feel brilliant in minutes trust me, and as you havn't had a heart attack your heart wont be damaged so you will almost certainaly be able to crack on with your life without healing first. Good luck

Was it painful ?

 

[Doc333]

Was it painful ?

Lard I'm guessing your asking about the attack? The truth is no because as far as i was concerned it wasn't a heart attack, as I thought the left arm went funny and a massive pain in the chest. That's a misconception as the chest tightens up and the throat constricts and you feel weak, listless and unwell ..... all because the heart isn't getting oxygen from the blood that's stopped in one artery. You then run out of breath and sweat up. The paramedics were putting something under my tongue to open the arteries and ease the pain if it got too much.

 

[Tyke]

As Doc said. With mine being out riding the bike I thought it was dehydration.

 

[Lard Armstrong]

Lard I'm guessing your asking about the attack? The truth is no because as far as i was concerned it wasn't a heart attack, as I thought the left arm went funny and a massive pain in the chest. That's a misconception as the chest tightens up and the throat constricts and you feel weak, listless and unwell ..... all because the heart isn't getting oxygen from the blood that's stopped in one artery. You then run out of breath and sweat up. The paramedics were putting something under my tongue to open the arteries and ease the pain if it got too much.

Thanks. Actually I meant the Angiogram /Angioplasty.

My Angina symptoms are similar to yours.

 

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Thanks. Actually I meant the Angiogram /Angioplasty.

My Angina symptoms are similar to yours.

The angiogram shouldn't hurt. If they are doing it via the femoral artery, they ask you to shave the inside of the upper thigh. Actually, they go in much nearer your junk so they mow your pubic hairs a bit, an interesting sound when you are lying on your back with a young lady attacking you. Scraping noises. Then they cut into the femoral artery (painless) and try and stuff in a thin tube. In my case, they had a certain amount of difficulty feeding it in at the start, and I tensed up my leg. The medic asked me to relax, to which I grimaced " how the fark can I when you're hurting me?". Anyway, the tube eventually started going in and the rest of the procedure was entirely painless. Arteries don't have nerves, I believe, so you can't feel a thing. I apologised to her for my language , BTW.

Best wishes, and don't worry. You will be fine

 

[Doc333]

Lard I was different from Slow as the groin area was the 2nd place they wanted to use and only if they couldn't go in through my right wrist. Both areas are slavered with gunk antibacteriol stuff, but luckily for me they managed to get in through the artery in my wrist. The area is deadened first so you wont feel a thing, except a bit of tugging and pulling as they drive the wires up your arm and into your chest.

Its a procedure I wouldn't worry about if I need it again.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Another one here, stented in 2008, four fitted, I developed chest pains when I pushed myself, I had just had a cold and thought I had a chest infection, when it didn't clear up I went to my GP and then onto the cardiologist, they did my angiogram through my wrist and went through the groin when they put the stents in, I stopped the club rides and reduced the effort when commuting, I didn't cycle for about a week after the stents went in, then got back on my bike and I've been cycling since then.

 

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Sorry @Lard Armstrong, I didn't wish to alarm you. I was a bit unlucky with my angiogram. I didn't feel a thing once she had "gained entry".