  |
|
 
Angioplasty Success Stories
Tweet
|
|
||||||||||||
|
Current Postings on This Page (16): • I am a woman over 50, but in good health and fairly active. In 2006, I was 15 years younger and primarily a vegetarian. It was then that my heart issues increased and I was admitted to the ER. I need both a heart ablation procedure plus I had an 80% blocked main artery, and also another artery 40% blocked. The blockage was cured by a groin angioplasty, but for the past year, I began to have symptoms of more blockage forming around the original stent and maybe further. I’m going in for another angioplasty tomorrow, but they are going in through the arm this time. I’ll report back on that after the procedure. This shows you that plaque can grow back around your original stent over time. • Dear Editor,Thanks for such motivating success stories, sure this will help a lot to all of us. Please try to ask Mr. David E. from Oklahoma again how's he doing now if you have his email address cause i am sure that will be even better. Again thanks for the good work. • I was rushed into hospital on Wednesday 18th May within 25 min I had an angioplasty and one stent placed. Remarkable how quick the procedure was. I just couldn't believe it. I had a feeling in my chest and the side of my neck -- not a pain, just a weird feeling as if I had indigestion except it was in the centre of my chest. I had this feeling at 9am on 18 May 2011. I was driving to work, came back home immediately and called the ambulance. They did ECGs and sent them to the Freeman Hospital Newcastle which fortunately is exactly a mile away from where I live. They told the ambulance to bring me in as there seemed to be a problem. I reached the hospital at approx. 10:15am. I was back in the ward by 11am how amazing was that!! Remarkable team. Remarkable hospital. • Ganga from India -- check out our Forum Topic
on "Exercise after Angioplasty". • Male, 55 year old, I had three stents placed
after two major attacks in 2008.I have fully recovered and active now.
I walk 3 miles, cycle 3 miles daily,
only with slight difficulty in gradients. I am still on all medicines (Atorva
40, Ecosporin 325, Cardace 5, Daxid 50, MetXL 50 all 1 each daily,Clopidogrel
75 & Metformin 1mg, twice a day. My question is should I continue with such
a heavy dosage even after 2 years? Is there anyway that I can reduce dependency
on medicines and try to build up through diets, exercises and lifestyle. My
Cardio
has abroad for
2 years. Please guide. • I had my PTCA in Dec. 1998 at age 42 following
several weeks of mysterious but increasingly severe chest pain. I did
not recognize the symptoms until it was almost too late. It was in
my LAD artery and a stent was implanted. Since then, I feel great. I
have
no restrictions on my activity, I work out on a treadmill and with
weights, jump rope and run with my dog. This is a miracle operation,
almost painless
and NO SCARS! Cheers to the cardiac team at Sunnybrook Health Science
Centre in Toronto. • I had 2 stents placed in my LAD on 3/15/06.
I'm a 55 yr old male, 5'8" and 152 lbs. Prior to noticing angina symptoms
I exercised vigorously, cycling 4-5 times/wk at a competitive level,
and lifting moderate weights 2-3 times/wk. I have had this same workout
routine for the past 20 years. No chronic health problems, whatsoever,
and have never taken any long term medications. After receiving the
stents I was placed on blood pressure medication, plavix, and a statin.
It took
me a number of weeks to become adjusted to all the meds, but I feel
very good now. I recently went for my 3 month follow-up and have been
cleared
by my cardiologist to resume my pre-stent level of activity. I am probably
85-90% back to the level of workout I was doing prior to the stents,
and I feel great! • I was #115 angioplasty in the US with Dr
Richard Myler in SanFran in 1979. I restenosed and was revascularized
two months later. No problems until 1995, when I went three times. The
reason for the reblockage was the "creep" of poor eating habits. Unbelievably,
I was symptom free until April of 2006, and here we go again. Culprit:
poor eating habits, this time in spite of good cholesterol readings from
Lipitor and daily regime of fish oil (started back in 1995). Lesson:
never (NEVER) cheat on proper eating. Now, I have a stent (great progress?)
but I made a mistake in allowing it to be inplanted..edge exposure, turbulence,
perhaps improper fit to artery, etc. So I am trolling the boards and
sites looking at my future with a possible restenosed stent location
(angina is returning 5 weeks post). • i underwent angioplasty and three stents
were put in main and other two arteries on 9.5.2006. i am feeling fine,
no chest pain etc. What long term measures can be taken for future and
if reversal of artery disease is possible? • Alan I was a little confused on when you
had your angioplasty, did you have the procedure after you had the heart
attack or before? Sounds like you did the right thing by calling EMS.
Are you feeling well now? • Had my stent planted in me exactly one week
ago. I still have 30 percent blockage in circumflex and Right Artery
is totally blocked. Doctors put my on six drugs, including plavix, tryicor,
altase and a few more. After two days of lying on my back only walked
out and feel great. No pains. I was getting back and under left armpit
pains. Yesterday I was on my roof with blower cleaning out my gutters.
I want to watch my kids grow up and see grand kids too. I'm 54 and have
learned to love rice, fruit and veggies. I was lucky. As soon as I felt
the sweats and pain I called 911. On my way to the hospital my heart
stopped and I had to be shocked back. If you think it's going to be the
big one DO NOT drive to hospital. The ambulance and fire rescue had me
wired up and at my house in five minutes. The doctor said if I would
have driven my self, I never would of made it. God Bless EMS and Morton
Plant Hospital in St. Pete Florida. Alan S • I'm sorry to hear that your husband doesn't
see a bright future after the stenting but mine did not seem so bright
for the first couple years either. I believe mine was more of a helpless
feeling than anything. I was 25 years old when I received the Angioplasty
and felt like life would never return to normal, but it did and I'm doing
great now. I guess changing my lifestyle helped more than anything by
managing the risk factors, walking every evening, cutting the fat out
of the diet by eating chicken and fish, etc. Does your husband seem depressed?
If so, he might begin to see a brighter future when he realizes that
he's still young and will bounce back from this procedure. I'm sure he
will feel better soon. Like I said, it took me a couple of years before
I realized that this procedure healed me. Maybe this will encourage him.
I returned to my Doctor yesterday for the first time in over 20 years,
this was at the encouragement of my family Doctor because he's not a
cardiologist and he thought it would be a good idea because I had this
problem in the past, He just wanted to be sure that I'm receiving the
proper meds, etc. Good news, everything looked normal and the Doctor
just advised that I check in every year or so and inquire about new medications
that may come on the market for lowering high blood pressure. The future
looks bright and I know your husbands will soon also. • Congratulations on doing well. David, mind
me asking how old you were when you had the procedure in 1981. My husband
was early 40's when he had stenting done in Jan. and doesn't feel his
future is bright. • Thank you for responding so quickly, As
a matter of fact, my family doctor which rarely sees me because I have
felt so good for the past 25 years, has encouraged me to visit the Doctor
who performed the Angioplasty in 1981. Not that he suspects anything
is wrong, he just wants to be sure that I'm taking the most up to date
medicine for high blood pressure, etc..I'll be happy to post another
message on my visit next week May 11th if you would like. • David -- first off, congratulations! You
were among the first patients to get an angioplasty in the U.S. -- the
very first U.S. cases were only started in 1978. I do know that Adolph Bachmann, the first patient ever done (1977 in Zurich) is also still
doing fine -- I interviewed him a few years back for our documentary "PTCA:
A History" -- you can see a clip here.
Back then you would have been opened up by a balloon -- stents were not
even on the drawing board. We thank you for your posting and hope that
others who have had positive effects from this procedure also write into
this topic. One of the caveats of hosting a Message Board on the net
is that it tends to be a magnet for problems -- which is fine because
there doesn't seem to be any other public and easy-to-access outlet at
present -- but with over a million patients a year getting this procedure,
we'd like to hear more from those who have benefitted from this invention.
Especially since next year we will be celebrating angioplasty's 30th
anniversary. • I had an Angioplasty in 1981 at St Francis
Hospital in Tulsa Oklahoma and have never had a problem since. I am still
taking a 1/2 aspirin a day and 50m of Tenormin. I was just wondering
how many other people have had an Angioplasty this long ago and are doing
well? |
|||||||||||||
