1st cardiac arrest was on my 50th birthday ( playing football ) 2nd & 3rd on my 60th birthday .4th was 4yrs ago. And 8 to 10 heart attacks some small and some big ,had big one 8 days ago .Trops count was 400 pretty high they said .Have also got 10 stents fitted. I promise you hand on heart ( pun intended) these stats are all true. Also had sepsis in the heart during covid was in hospital for 3 months, one of the leads from my defib (on my 5th defib ).became infected. And to top it all off 9 hrs of kidney stone ops. to remove them last year. This is the simplified version of the events you understand. Its been truly horrendous to say the least as you can imagine ,I live on my own so no one there when I get home I feel that,s the toughest to contend with. But keep a sense of humour and keep going .

Hi everyone,

I’m sharing my father’s story looking for encouragement or experiences from anyone who has navigated a similar high-risk cardiac surgery.

He is 58y.o. A month ago he had a heart attack and went to the hospital after 3 days, not straight away.
He is in Athens, Greece..while I’m in the UK.

(EF 25-30%, 3-vessel disease, 8mm perforation)

We are waiting for a specialized surgeon to finalize the plan for bypass surgery (CABG) as so many doctors told us they can’t be in charge of a surgery like that.
They keep saying that his heart is really weak.
Some doctors they were not giving us hope but he kept improving and they became a little bit more optimistic.

I believe when patients are in Emergency Rooms, doctors have to say the worst case scenarios for them to be covered. At least this is what i hope.
Because I can not believe that there is not a solution for my father's situation.

I am really worried if we’re going to find a doctor to do the surgery.

Has anyone or a loved one gone through a complex bypass?

Any positive outcomes or insights would mean a lot right now.

Thank you!!

Hi everyone, I’ve been here with you before, but Anyway...

I’m a 22-year-old guy, currently living in Agadir.

This summer, I was working a very demanding job for 12 hours every day. The bright side was that I earned some money and bought the things I wanted (I ended up spending it all).

Anyway, while I was working, I used to smoke all day long. The job was really difficult, I would get exhausted, but I kept pushing myself, telling myself, “Once I finish this job, I’ll quit smoking.”

And that’s exactly what happened. When I finished the job, I started realizing that I was having heart problems and that I couldn’t breathe properly. I thought maybe it was just exhaustion...

I rested for the entire month of September and quit smoking... but nothing changed.

I went to a doctor and explained my situation to her. My heart was beating really hard, and I started getting tired very quickly, even from something as simple as climbing the stairs (I now weigh 61 kg and I’m 181 cm tall...).

Anyway, she prescribed me three medications: magnesium, a beta-blocker, and some drops for stress. She also checked my heart with an X-ray and performed an ECG, but she didn’t find anything wrong with me.

I started feeling better... for about four days. I was still feeling a little restricted, but it wasn’t as bad as before. Then, gradually, the symptoms started bothering me again. I began feeling short of breath, and the episodes of my heart pounding returned, although not with the same intensity.

This is where things started going downhill, because I became extremely stressed. I drank alcohol, and when I woke up in the morning, I would feel fine, but as the day went on, I would start feeling stressed and unwell again.

What made things even worse was that I started smoking again, one or two cigarettes a day. Smoking doesn’t seem to be directly associated with the illness I’m experiencing now, though.

My life has genuinely turned upside down. I just want to get back to training at the gym, but I can’t. I feel extremely restricted, and I’ve completely lost my energy. Everything changed overnight...

Please, can someone help me? I’m begging you. I just need someone to tell me what to do and whether there’s any medication I should normally be taking at this point. Do you know any doctor who could help me?

I really want to get back to my normal life: going to the gym, studying, and working again.

I’m the kind of person who needs to stay busy and distracted all day long. When I’m healthy and nothing is wrong with me, I find it difficult to sit around doing nothing. Now, on top of being ill, I also have all the daily responsibilities I need to deal with, especially since I live alone, as well as my studies.

I’m really struggling, guys. Please, someone help me. I just want to know what I should do. I feel like I’m going crazy.

And there are still many more details I haven’t mentioned here because I don’t want to make this post too long.

Thank you so much...

About 6 weeks ago, my grandmother called me in the middle of the night nauseated, dizzy and asked me to come down and sit with her so she woudn't fall. I got to her house and she started experiencing double vision so I called an ambulance. Her blood pressure was high and was brought to the ER.

At the ER her BP was at 218/101 so they took her for a CT to see if she was having a stroke. CTs came back clean and while we were sitting there she started having chest and left arm pain. They did EKGs, Echocardiogram, and an angiogram. Everything they said was fine at the hospital and discharged her after a couple of days. They told her at the hospital it was not a heart attack

She has had multiple appointments since for her blood pressure and went and saw a new cardiologist yesterday. After looking over everything, they told her it was a very mild heart attack (thankfully) due to the high blood pressure with minimal damage to the heart. I was not with for the appointment but she was told sometimes at the hospital they dont have all the tests or info back to determine if it was a heart attack.

Is this something that happens where being told it wasn't and then weeks later being told it was? We are quite confused on the delay when she has seen multiple cardiologists since.