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4est_4est_Gump said:
I just came off of a similar experience only with a-phib...

It was brought about by a bout with pneumonia and my refusal to take off work and see a doctor for my symptoms which I was self-diagnosing as merely a bad allergy season.
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I'm glad that it wasn't more serious.
 
kbate said:
Italian?

*shudders*

[mandatory congrats and glad you lived remark to prove possession of empathy gene]
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If it had been Latin! I probably would have been scared the rest of the way to death.
 
Mischka said:
Q, fab to see you about, and in Italy to boot. :heart:
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Mischka! It's nice to see you!

I decided that one way to make lemonade out of cardio lemons was to use it as an excuse to never shovel snow again.

Summers in Maine, winters on the Mediterranean, yes, I can deal with that.
 
Mischka said:
Q, fab to see you about, and in Italy to boot. :heart:
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Mischka! Where you BEEN??? :heart:

Queersetti, I am glad your story had a happy outcome, and that you have re-joined the Gee Bee. You seem to be a fun guy with some interesting stuff to say.
 
Aphroditiac said:
Mischka! Where you BEEN??? :heart:

Queersetti, I am glad your story had a happy outcome, and that you have re-joined the Gee Bee. You seem to be a fun guy with some interesting stuff to say.
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I'm a million laughs, except, you know, when I'm on the verge of death.
 
Queersetti said:
October 3, 2009

It started out as a normal day. I got up around 6am, made coffee and read the newspaper. My niece Donata was staying with me while she went to college, and she got up a bit later. I was feeling a little worn down, and felt I was getting a toothache on the left side of my lower jaw.

Donata was making breakfast and we discussed a magazine article I had read the night before. She was interested in it, so I went back upstairs to my room to retrieve the magazine. While I climbed the stairs, I began to feel winded, and when I reached the top I could not catch my breath at all. I started to turn to go back down, and I blacked out.

The next thing I knew I was lying, halfway down the steps, with Donata pounding on my chest. I sat up. I felt a little woozy and had banged my hip a bit, but was not in any pain. But Donata had called 911 and when the paramedics arrived, I agreed to be taken to Maine Medical Center.

When I arrived at the emergency room, they immediately ran me through a battery of tests. They could not find anything wrong. But suddenly, as I was waiting for another test, I began to experience a feeling something like a Charlie horse, except that it seemed to be in every part of my body at once. I broke out in a cold sweat and felt nauseous. As I was attached to an array of monitors the nurses knew what was going on immediately and began to scramble.

Everything went black.

I awoke, staring at the ceiling. It took me a minute to be able to focus on what was going on around me. The first thing that bought me back to my senses was hearing someone speaking Italian, which seemed awfully odd in that context. Of course, it was Donata ( she is from Genoa), who, in her panic, forgot all her Eng lish.

My heart had stopped, but they had defibrillated me in under a minute. I was stabilized, and then taken to the catheter lab, where they found an 80% blockage in one of the arteries of my heart. They inserted a stent. There was another blockage, 60%, which they stented two days later.

I was on my feet and out of the hospital in 4 days. I took a cardio rehab course, and i have been doing fine ever since.

I decided to post this, not for any sympathy, as I am fine, but because, since this experience, I feel an obligation to spread some knowledge.

I was incredibly lucky. The incident at home was something just short of cardiac arrest. If I had gone into full arrest then, I would not have survived, despite my dear Donata's heroic efforts. If the second incident had occurred anywhere other than in the hospital, I would have died within minutes.

I live a fairly healthy lifestyle. I live in one of the most walkable cities in the country, and I take full advantage of that. I eat, primarily, a Mediterranean diet, generally considered very heart healthy.

On the day this happened, my blood pressure, my heart rate and my cholesterol were all well within the normal range.

And I was feeling pretty good. A bit tired, but otherwise fine. I did not recognize that the pain I felt in my jaw was not a toothache, but an indicator of cardiac malfunction.

You probably think you would recognize the symptoms of an imminent heart attack. You are probably wrong. Many people never feel any chest pain. Most women do not. The most common symptom in women is back pain.

If you have any recurring pain or discomfort in your chest, your upper abdomen, your neck, your back, please, I urge you not to ignore it. Be especially aware of pain that "crescendoes". Believe me, you would rather seek help and find that you don't have a problem than shrug off something that might kill you.

Not everyone is as lucky as I am.
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This is the part I don't get. I would assume the battery of ER tests included a "resting EKG." If an EKG and consistently normal BP and LDL levels can co-exist with arterial blockages of 60% and 80% that would imply that the only true diagnostic tool for arterial blockages is a cardiac catherterization, and most people don't routinely get those.

My 89-year-old mother was admitted to the hospital for "a battery of tests" recently including some sort of cardiac MRI plus a chemically induced stress test (apparently they don't put octogenarians on treadmills these days).

The results were sufficiently positive that the cardiologist did not proceed with a cardiac catheterization. I'm thrilled for her and for what she means to me.

Meanwhile, my own annual physical includes a resting EKG and chest x-ray and my LDL and BP are well controlled via medication. My "good" cholesterol could be a lot better.

So, according to your experience, my mom could play in the NFL, and I could easily go down for the count climbing to my seat to watch her play.
 
It sounds like Q needs more Grappa in his diet. A little digestivo will keep your pipes clean.
 
Colonel Hogan said:
This is the part I don't get. I would assume the battery of ER tests included a "resting EKG." If an EKG and consistently normal BP and LDL levels can co-exist with arterial blockages of 60% and 80% that would imply that the only true diagnostic tool for arterial blockages is a cardiac catherterization, and most people don't routinely get those.

My 89-year-old mother was admitted to the hospital for "a battery of tests" recently including some sort of cardiac MRI plus a chemically induced stress test (apparently they don't put octogenarians on treadmills these days).

The results were sufficiently positive that the cardiologist did not proceed with a cardiac catheterization. I'm thrilled for her and for what she means to me.

Meanwhile, my own annual physical includes a resting EKG and chest x-ray and my LDL and BP are well controlled via medication. My "good" cholesterol could be a lot better.

So, according to your experience, my mom could play in the NFL, and I could easily go down for the count climbing to my seat to watch her play.
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Colonel, I can only speak from my own experience. I was given an EKG and a chest X-ray, and the doctors, after going over them, were puzzling over what had cause me to black out when I had the heart attack.

They had not gotten my blood work back at that point, so I can't say they wouldn't have seen something there. If they noticed anything later, they didn't tell me, possibly because they did not think it relevant after the fact.

But, ultimately, yes, I guess the only 100% sure way to know is to go in and look.
 
Colonel Hogan said:
This is the part I don't get. I would assume the battery of ER tests included a "resting EKG." If an EKG and consistently normal BP and LDL levels can co-exist with arterial blockages of 60% and 80% that would imply that the only true diagnostic tool for arterial blockages is a cardiac catherterization, and most people don't routinely get those.
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*raises hand* There's also an "Exercise EKG".

I had normal BP and resting EKG and cholesterol, but I had episodes 5 years ago where my heartbeat was irregular and my left hand felt numb after doing heavy weights on the squat rack.

Cardiologist had me do a continually elevated treadmill test while wearing cardio leads. Turned out to be an annoying benign condition, but I slept better knowing it wasn't some sort of blockage.
 
vetteman said:
Glad to hear it was benign, I'd feel real bad if I was picking on a seriously degraded elderly man.
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Speaking of "seriously degraded elderly men", isn't it about time for nurse to empty your colostomy bag?
 
Fuck me that's dramatic innit! Glad you're ok me ole mucker.

I get jaw pain from time to time but it's cos I never shut the fuck up.
 
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