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I wondered if maybe the coolness on my front from the vest led to a reduction in blood flow to my heart. Therefore, yesterday when I wore my vest, I did not use the cooling packs for the front of the vest - just those for my back. I wasn't as cool using that arrangement, but today I don't have any chest pain. Anyone else have the experience with coldness of chest from a cooling vest resulting in chest pain?

t have any answers for you, but I hated seeing that no one bothered to answer your post. What is a life vest? Does your brother smoke, or did he ever? 97% is not a terrible oxygen level to have. It sounds like he needs REST to recover. Be sure he lets his doctors know how badly he is feeling. Good luck and God Bless...

you do need to find out what type of cardiomyopathy you have and what caused it because it may further weaken and enlarge your heart. CM makes it harder for your heart to pump blood and can lead to heart failure if left untreated. They either need to treat it, fix it or put in an defibrillator so you don't go into cardiac arrest; which could be deadly. could the M word be myocarditis?

t do that good of a job with cooling my home. Anyway around 8PM I was having my usual heart attack symptoms (have had 2 in the past) but since they had determined the last time it was my MS causing them I decided to try cooling off. I keep my bedroom at around 60 with a room AC since I tend to get a lot of muscle cramping if I'm too warm so I headed for my bedroom. After about 20 minutes the symptoms went away and I was feeling better. But I stayed in my bedroom for about 1 hour.

My 47-year old husband is currently on his 9th day in what will likely end up to be an 11-day hospital visit. EF of 10%. He was diagnosed with congestive heart failure about 6 weeks ago after several months of misdiagnosis. His doctor mentioned the possibility of his getting a Life Vest until he is eligible for ICD in 3 months. Does anybody have any experience with this?

Three months ago, my husband (57 years old) had heart attack with emergency quad bypass. After the surgery, and again after 3 1/2 weeks, the echo showed EF 30-35%. All has gone remarkably well with recovery, however, he has been wearing the life vest because of the lower EF. Now, after this week's echo (at 3 months), it shows no improvement, still EF 30-35%. Cardiologist says now he should have internal defib inserted. We are concerned about the benefits vs. any limitations he may have.

The prescribing doctor needs to send a detailed letter to your insurance company, explaining the need for the vest and hopefully this will clear things up. I also worked with the "appeals department" at the Life Vest company. They were very helpful.

Unfortunately these are expensive too: http://www.arcticheat.com.au/ They make some neck coolers that are filled with crystals that turn into gel when they're soaked in water. Wrap the thing around your neck and it'll drop your temp by a couple of degrees. I've tried them in the Hill Country, and they work pretty good - but you have to keep them in the ice chest so they'll stay cold.

When you get your neb machine, make sure that you do your nebs before you vest so that your airways are as open as possible. I tend to do my Xopenex and pulmozyme/HTS before vesting and then do my session. I vest twice a day at a minimum, when sick, I go up to four a day if tolerated. That is curious about your ears and bronc, I bet it was the plane ride that did it though. The last time I flew, I could not hear for a few days and felt stuffy.

Love the play on words! I am glad you got your vest so quickly. Now you can enjoy the cool concert and the rest of the festivities. Glad that you got a chance to socialize with some of the other ladies from the barn. Sounds like life is good!

I hope you get your cooling vest. I am sorry for your frustrations. I can relate to the long waits and hassles. Oregon sounds better.

Well I finally got my cooling vest from the VA. Actually it is a cooling vest, wrist wraps, and neck wrap with 2 sets of cooling packs for each of them. These are the frozen water type and had been hoping they would have been the phase change type instead. The first thing I noticed was just how heavy the vest is with all of the packs inserted. In fact once I had all of the packs in I tried to put in on and almost fell over backward from the swinging of the weight.

The good news is that it was caught and that you are wearing a Defib vest. If you should go into this rhythm again, the vest will give your heart a shock to being it back to NSR (Normal Sinus Rhythm) How soon will you be having these tests? Other than the captured VT, do you have any other heart related problems?

I got my vest from Polar Products. I think the vest holds 11 packs. I've had it for 6-9 months. It doesn't get a lot of use, but I have had one pack start to leak. I just bought a bunch of extra packs. I got an 8 pack for $48. http://www.polarproducts.com/polarshop/pc/viewCategories.asp?

So its 17 degrees over here in Scotland (62 farenheit), yesterday it was 24 degrees (75 farenheit) just wondering what babes should be wearing when am out and about with him, yesterday he was wearing a vest, lightweight trousers and a tshirt with a light blanket over him when we went for a walk and understanably he was hot, when we came home i stripped him to his nappy and lay him on his playmat and it seemed to settle him.

My PGP filled out both RX for the cooling vest and new manual wheelchair, I totally forgot until reading your post.. I have to get them sent off to MSAA this week... This plus the earlier post I read about the 02cool bottle tells me I need to get my head working better, I am letting things fall to the wayside and that MUST Change Now... Onward and upward... Hope every one is feeling OK tonight... I'll write a new post about the Old Gal, after I get through checking on all of you...

I'm sorry to hear that your MS has made your quality of life to miserable. The only chest vest I have heard about are the ones used in physical chest therapy aimed at helping to dislodge the excess mucous from the lungs. I assume then that this vest would assist the diaphragm muscles to get the air in and out of your lungs. Have you tried posting your question on the doctor's forum side, to see if they have any suggestions? http://www.medhelp.

s also a great little towel called Frogtogg, that you can wrap around your neck, put over your face, lay on your chest, etc. They are sold at sporting good stores. You put them in some warm water, it activates the cooling, and stays cool for hours. It helped me attend some of my son't baseball games. Another simple trick is to use some ice. And of course, stay hydrated!

I have seen places say with a Virus caused heart problem You will not be able to get your EF any higher and i have seen you can. Im 33 yrs old. And I want to know what are my chances of getting the ef up on Med? and If it goes up will i need a defibrillator still? And If my EF stays the same after a Defib is placed in will I be able to do normal activities? I work where i climb poles and work on lines near Electric lines are.

Let me try to explain this in laymen's terms, as best as I can. In order for all the systems of the body to run smoothly, our body temperatures have to be at or slightly below normal. 98.6 Our bodies work more efficiently at conducting nerve impluses from the brain to the rest of the body when our temperature is normal. Have you ever heard someone say, (that doesn't have MS) after coming inside from a 90 degree day..."Wow, I feel like I have been run over by a truck.

do you mean bronchiectasis? im never come accross the first term but from your description im sure its the same as bronchiectasis. there is a "vest" that is made for CF patients which used precussion to free secretions. see www.thevest.

Hi would your specialist know of someone who test for POTS in Auckland. I have suspected for 2 years know that my 14 year old sons has POTS. symptoms started with dizziness excessive tiredness fatique, blue coloured lower legs, sore stomach, chest pain . flushing of face very much like amalar rash. He is quite debilitated by this and has extensive testingfor lupus but all negative. I just need someone that could help him. He gets quite depressed and anxious because he is so tired.

I had a dentist appointment today and they took mouth xray which they said would be completly safe with the vest on. I been very busy today and I realized I haven't felt the babies move since then. So I been resting for awhile now hoping to notice movement or a kick but nothing. I'm not really hurting but I'm really concerned? Any advice or I'm I just freaking out over nothing?

If it is an AED it would probably be in the form of a vest that could be fitted in a doctors office in a short time. If it is an AICD I would think it would be done in a heart cath lab in the hospital. My initial implant took around 3 hours but my leads are different from most others, Mine were surgically implanted to the outside of my heart. I am now on my fifth ICD and all have been done in a EP or cath lab.

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