Heart Attack ??s

[deo62]

Today marks 1 week since i suffered a Heart attack. Received a couple of stents for 100% blockage, my fault, stopped being real regular about taking cholesterol meds. Never had a BP problem except for that night. My questions are for those that have been through this, what kind of recovery time am i looking at? Drs told my wife i had no damage to my heart.

 

[snorko]

My thread from 2014: https://www.indianagunowners.com/threads/heart-attacks-suck.345632/

I too had no damage to the heart. I remember feeling tired for a week or so. I went back to work in two and a half weeks and generally felt normal after that. Ten years later and all is still good.

 

[GregD]

They put 2 stents in me also. I was in the hospital for 3 days and went home. My doc sent me to the rehab, that help a lot.
That was over 5 year ago.
I was a smoker.
Have never smoked again.

 

[deo62]

Have appt for rehab to start next Tuesday. I too was a former smoker but had quit last year. The tiredness is awful right now. Think some of it is due to BP meds. My BP is running kinda low right now.

 

[GregD]

Have appt for rehab to start next Tuesday. I too was a former smoker but had quit last year. The tiredness is awful right now. Think some of it is due to BP meds. My BP is running kinda low right now.

Let you doc know about it running low.
The rehab it help you a lot . . . sure did it for me !

 

[Goodcat]

Sorry to hear that man. I deal with symptomatic PVCs and heart palpitations. I can’t quite understand the stress you must be under, but I can empathize with heart issues affecting life. Prayers for you tonight. Stay well.

 

[IndyGal65]

Sorry to hear that man. I deal with symptomatic PVCs and heart palpitations. I can’t quite understand the stress you must be under, but I can empathize with heart issues affecting life. Prayers for you tonight. Stay well.

I have issues with PVC's as well, to the point that I was finally started on meds. It pretty much masks the symptoms but those palpitations still come through here and there. Nothing like dealing with a heart attack though.

Hope you recover quickly Deo! (Side note, I grew up in Peru!)

 

[KARP]

I had 2 stents put in my right artery in 2007. I was a cigar smoker, I was in the hospital 2 days and all I thought about was the 6 or 7 Cohibas I had in my humidor at home.
Got home and told my wife that after I smoked them I was going to quit, she looked at me and said "you already have ".
Humidor was empty.
Rehab and meds for the rest of my life, been good so far, knock on wood.

 

[Cameramonkey]

Let you doc know about it running low.
The rehab it help you a lot . . . sure did it for me !

THIS. Call their office tomorrow. Low pressure can definitely explain the tiredness.

 

[duanewade]

I had a heart attack in 2019 on a Sunday afternoon, I had 95% blockage in my LAD, they put a Stent in Monday morning and I went back to work on Wednesday like nothing happened. I used to go home from work, sit in a chair and fall asleep in a mayter of minutes. There were so many warning signs that I should have seen it coming. The good Lord gave me a little bigger wake up call that day and I've changed to about 95% vegan diet, I walk 5 miles each day and still work 8-10 hours a day and I lost 80 lbs over 2 years

Thanking Him every day for keeping me alive.

 

[Tactically Fat]

I can't offer anything.

But rehab is for quitters. :-D

 

[Pepi]

I still question Statins. They sure make you hurt all over.

 

[flatlander]

Today marks 1 week since i suffered a Heart attack. Received a couple of stents for 100% blockage, my fault, stopped being real regular about taking cholesterol meds. Never had a BP problem except for that night. My questions are for those that have been through this, what kind of recovery time am i looking at? Drs told my wife i had no damage to my heart.

Go to cardiac rehab so you can be monitored. Take it gradual. Follow the doctors orders EXACTLY. Took about 6 weeks for me. Widow maker almost got me as I was leaving work at Cabela's. 80% blockage. Stent and that was almost 3 years ago.

 

[r3126]

Two stents 2 Feb. 1 night in intensive care (flat lined for 6 seconds - revived "obviously" spontaneously). Home next PM. Only suffered from breathlessness previously - stress test identified problem. Since release from hospital, recovery excellent. Just finished 12 sessions (3 per week) of cardiac rehab - very worthwhile! 83 years old, never smoked, on statin since I was 55, active all my life, 2 marathons when I was younger. You probably are on blood thinner (Plavic) and a drug to relax blood vessels (improve blood flow). Mine made me tired with very low blood pressures (vicinity of 80s/60s). Be active! Fight the desire to just sit around and/or nap. Follow your cardiologist's directions! It gets better! Good luck with your recovery! Semper Fidelis

 

[tim87tr]

I still question Statins. They sure make you hurt all over.

That is wise. Why are they the number one prescribed drug? Probably because the sugar industry wants to place blame elsewhere. The fear of cholesterol is highly profitable to big pharma.

 

[MrSmitty]

95% vegan diet,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^Is that really living though? I keed, I keed.....

 

[duanewade]

95% vegan diet,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^Is that really living though? I keed, I keed.....

The vegan diet itself is really not as bad as most people think. I'm blessed with a wife that takes care of me and knows how to cook about anything she sets her mind to. I couldn't do the diet and probably wouldn't be as healthy as I am now. And I eat some very delicious food and we eat out once or twice a week usually, we both love Mexican and Italian food and some food the vegan eateries around Fort Wayne have made a lot of progress in the "tastiness" of their food.

 

[MrSmitty]

The vegan diet itself is really not as bad as most people think. I'm blessed with a wife that takes care of me and knows how to cook about anything she sets her mind to. I couldn't do the diet and probably wouldn't be as healthy as I am now. And I eat some very delicious food and we eat out once or twice a week usually, we both love Mexican and Italian food and some food the vegan eateries around Fort Wayne have made a lot of progress in the "tastiness" of their food.

I love veggies.....just not veggies all the time....I'll help you out by eating your food choice's natural enemy...Cows...You're welcome!!

 

[firecadet613]

The vegan diet itself is really not as bad as most people think. I'm blessed with a wife that takes care of me and knows how to cook about anything she sets her mind to. I couldn't do the diet and probably wouldn't be as healthy as I am now. And I eat some very delicious food and we eat out once or twice a week usually, we both love Mexican and Italian food and some food the vegan eateries around Fort Wayne have made a lot of progress in the "tastiness" of their food.

Good buddy of mine went on a vegan diet. Lost over 60lbs, he's as small as he was in high school!

Two stents 2 Feb. 1 night in intensive care (flat lined for 6 seconds - revived "obviously" spontaneously). Home next PM. Only suffered from breathlessness previously - stress test identified problem. Since release from hospital, recovery excellent. Just finished 12 sessions (3 per week) of cardiac rehab - very worthwhile! 83 years old, never smoked, on statin since I was 35, active all my life, 2 marathons when I was younger. You probably are on blood thinner (Plavic) and a drug to relax blood vessels (improve blood flow). Mine made me tired with very low blood pressures (vicinity of 80s/60s). Be active! Fight the desire to just sit around and/or nap. Follow your cardiologist's directions! It gets better! Good luck with your recovery! Semper Fidelis

Almost 50 years of being on statins?

 

[r3126]

Good buddy of mine went on a vegan diet. Lost over 60lbs, he's as small as he was in high school!


Almost 50 years of being on statins?

Forgive my typo and proofreading. On statin since I was 55. Without statin, cholesterol 240+/-. With statin 130+/-. No indication of liver problems. Only reaction has been cramping at night over the last few years. Started taking my 20 mg in the AM instead of PM and the problem has resolved.