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• I have had 5 angioplasties and 7 stents -- the
last 2 on March 11th due to restenosis in two previously implanted stents.
The cardiologist used 2 Taxus stents as the previous ones were Cypher stents
and put me on Pletal® [Cilostazol] for 1 month to help prevent restenosis.
Feel pretty good after 1 month from procedure. Has anyone else had similar
situation.
I am also a diabetic.
Jim Savage, Bank Officer, Staten Island, New York, USA, April 12, 2008
• C.M. -- this is called in-stent restenosis --
the situation where a stent gets blocked up. It's not common, but it
definitely happens and it is typically treated by reopening the blockage
with a balloon
and sometimes putting in another stent, usually a drug-eluting type,
which has less tendency to block up again. Do you know what type of stent
you
got originally? Bare metal or drug-eluting?
Forum Editor, Angioplasty.Org, March 22, 2008
• i had stent fitted 6 months ago, then last
week i had to have another
one
fitted in the same place. Is this normal?
C.M., Great Britain, March 20, 2008
• Hi Mary and Dan, I have been reading your
post, My right was 90% closed when I had my first stent inserted, I
felt great for about a week and a half, then things just started going
down
hill, but I couldn't get anyone to listen to me, because I should have
been feeling great they say, This went on and on, I started becoming
so tired my eyes would close, automatically, then I started getting
cold, I couldn't warm up, I was freezing for days, but there was nothing
wrong.
I woke up one morning to have coffee with my husband, and before I
could say good morning, I was in a full fledged heart attack. My bare
metal
stent had closed off on one side with scar tissue, so I had another
inserted, this time a drug eluting stent, to help avoid the scar tissue.
Do I feel
better now, This was done in January, 2008, but now I don't feel good,
my biggest thing is the heart burn I have had now for the past three
days, I started having this problem, off and on since my last stent,
but now I have it all the time, along with a cough, it is so annoying,
I have a lot of chest pain, but I am told its probably from the heart
burn, I guess the pain I have in back is caused from the heart burn
as well, when my hands and feet go numb with pins and needles it's caused
from my heart burn as well. I find I am right back t where I started
from, I don't feel well, but no one will listen until it's too late.
Patsy, Nova Scotia, Canada, February 8, 2008
• My mom just turned 70 in aug. When she was
49 she had a heart attack. Her main artery was blocked 100%. This past
april she had a spell that put her into the hospital. they put five stents
into her main artery. they put her on plavix and topiral. she was allergic
to topiral. five weeks later stress test show something not right. did
another heart cath. four of the five stents closed they replaced those
with medicated stents. my mom has been so sick with her stomach and weakness
and her teeth have her so much pain shes been in the er 4 times times
this week. monday she is scheduled to have 4 teeth pulled with being
on the plavix. i am so scared for her. on top of this my dad is having
surgery on his bladder there is a mass we dont know if it is cancer.
someone email me please.
mary venables, massillon ohio usa, November 17, 2005
• Had a stent put in in May, 2 months later
I started getting angina even while at rest, it became so severe(the
angina) that my wife drove me to emergency, where next day I underwent
another angiogram to see what was wrong, the stent had blocked to 90%
(all in two months) the cardiologist inserted a new drug eluting stent
inside the old one. I feel great now except that every evening my ankles
and feet swell up, then are OK next morning. .anyone else get this problem?
Dan Danaher, Saskatoon SK Canada, October 31, 2005
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