Recovery from heart attack in elderly
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I had a major heart attack 9/18/08 with a 100% blockage in the LAD. I was told different things when in the hospital by two different doctors but I do understand that I have a small amount of damage with the heart working at 47. It has been 2 1/2 weeks since my heart attack and the doctor is telling me it is left up to me when I should and want to go back to work. I have a job that I lift more then 50 lbs and I do not want to have another heart attack.
Hi Everyone, I really hope someone can help me out here. I had a mild heart attack in February 2012 and had to have a stent inserted. Since then I've felt like a woman of 102, I work full time however once I get home in the evening my whole body seems to seize and I have to shuffle around as all my joints and muscles ache. In addition, I've developed Carpel tunnel and also Labrynthitis since having my heart attack!
She had a heart attack in the ambulance and it took 2 mins to revive her. She stayed in ICU on a ventilator for 11 days. During that time she had a chest tube put into her left lung for a hole that showed up and fluid retention. She had congestive heart failure with fluid retention in arma and legs and both lungs. She had pneumonia, rsv and mersa in her kidneys and lungs. She was malnurioushed and the diabetes was acting up.
she should of had blood test this will show enzymes in the blood if a heart attack has happened and an ecg will measure electricity in the heart, when u say thickened blood peices wound do you mean blood clots? the blood thinners get rid of the clots, and the tissue would have died because its been starved of oxygen so the heart pumps faster and faster, she sounds lucky to be here to be honest. What are they going to do about her heart?
I am a male 37-year old and was in Hong Kong on vacation when I had what we thought was a major "heart attack". Turned out I had myocarditis and pericarditis. I was very fortunate because my parents live in HK and took me to a great hospital. I was in the hospital for a week including the ICU for three days. I was then on bed-rest for 5-days before I got clearance to fly back to the USA. I was then on bed rest for 10-days to avoid readmittance to the hospital here.
I have recently been reading how heart rate recovery after exercise may be the best indicator of future cardiac health. My father died at 57 of a suuden heart attack. He unfortunately never took very good care of himself. I am a 38 year old male and have been exercising for years as well as watching my diet. I recently had a physical and my doctor said I was in great shape. EKG was fine. Although my LDL is borderline high at 141, my HDL is 81 and my triglycerides are 78.
Go to WebMd and in the search function box - put in Heart Attack
You will get results like this:
http://www.webmd.com/search/search_results/default.aspx?query=heart%20attack&sourceType=undefined
for heart failure see:
http://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/heart-failure/tc/heart-failure-treatment-overviewhttp://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/heart-failure/tc/heart-failure-treatment-overview
Do you know how to cut and paste? If not - put cut and paste in a Google search.
Today heart attack is not a disease of the elderly. It can affect kids too. This is because heredity is complicated by lack of exercise and intake of junk food. It can also appear at your age. Do not want to scare you but you must get all investigations done.
However since you have these symptoms from a very young age, the chances are less unless you have some other heart problem. Hence an ECHO should also be done.
I used to do a lot of physical exercise and believed CAD would never get me. I was very shocked when I had a heart attack but it made me realise no one is safe. I had high cholesterol, but one key factor with me is that since my teen years I had high blood pressure. Back then, Doctors used to just say "oh you are just made that way" and it was ignored.
t tell at first whether it was a simple stumble of an elderly person or his heart. After interrogating his ICD, they discovered his heart had gone in serious v-tach and he was zapped by the ICD. So my guess is if medical personnel can't tell right away without some exam, there must not be many external indications of heart problems.
Many sufferers dramatically reduce their levels of activity in the mistaken belief that that will reduce their risk of heart attack. In fact, on the contrary, in doing that, they increase the risk and, at the same time, their quality of life diminishes. People with refractory angina become frequent attendees at GP surgeries, undergo multiple emergency admissions to hospital and suffer exacerbated chest pain. Many patients and careers live in an unfounded perpetual fear of sudden death".
It could be. I was talking to one of my friends who is only 15. He describes that he gets the exact same thing on occasion. We seem to agree that when we breathe in it hurts so we have to breathe in slightly and breathe out more until the sharp pain subsides, which is usually after about a minute. Honestly, I'm pretty convinced now that it's heartburn since my friend described that he gets it too.
This is a bit confusing. I say confusing because if heart muscle has already died, then they wouldn't normally bother to put stents in, there's no point. Once heart muscle dies, it never regenerates, heart cells do not multiply like other cells. Until stem cell research finds a way to overcome this problem, it's something we are stuck with. Now, back to your Father. Do you know what his LVEF is?
My brother-in-law has had 2 open heart surgeries for an acute heart attack and based on his recovery is my basis and other than a back pain problems he was in good health. For individuals there are never hard/fast rules for any medical therapy, and too oftened that is not taken into consideration for a recovering patient. One year complete recovery time is a conservative estimate and not unreasonal.
So its been a few weeks from that and i feel a discomfort in my chest, my musels are sore for no reason, and my heart beating irregularly, feels like it stops then starts. its werid
the cough is gone, but i still cough up some white Flem.
But I will say this about my self, I do tend to get nervous and feel there is something wrong with me and then my heart starts beating fast feels like I'm going to have a heart attack.
is this normal, for the recovery.
My girlfriend, 50 years old, had a heart attack in May 2009 with good recovery. In January 2010 she had a blockage in a major artery causing another heart attack. The blockage was in an old stent so they cleaned it out and replaced the stent. She was released with no restrictions except for 5 days. She is paranoid now about her heart rate. She is afraid to do anything to raise it fearing another heart attack. She has a follow up appointment on the 5th of February...
Today, I found that Mayo Clinic suggests a guideline of a change in bowel habits that lasts longer than a week should be when to see a doctor. But if he has gone from diarrhea to no type of stool at all, the time to go in would be now!
Staying hydrated with diarrhea just once a day should be a fairly easy feat, but the cause of once a day watery diarrhea is what I hope you can discover quickly.
Regarding bad teeth- I have a cousin who had a defective heart valve.
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