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JO
topic: Coronary Atery Spasm after MI
Hi
I am from the UK 4years ago or so I had an urgent hysterectomy i was 38 with
high blood pressue and cholesterol and a poor family history, my father had an
MI and died within 3 days post.
Day 4 after the op and i am getting breathing difficulties assume my asthma is
playing up! a nurse came to give some inhaler relief but it got worse and then i
started getting chest pains. To cut a long story short i quickly became very
poorly and was then transferred to another hospital.
It seemed i had an MI after a clot from the operation and it shot to my heart.
I have had exhaustive tests, stress tests thalium scans, MRI scans of my heart,
scans of both my legs, and echo which showed left ventricular problems and also
a scan of the chambers of the heart and a test done to see what the pressures in
the heart chambers were. I have had failed stress tests and more hospital
admission than i would like to tell you. It seemed i was having angina pain and
although the damage to my heart from the MI was minimal they did 2 angiographies
and both showed normal to slight furring of the arteries but they now believe
the trouble may lie in the smaller arteries to the heart.
I have had many diagnosis over the years and now i take about 24 tablets a day,
i have oxygen at home and i am now registered disabled.
I am now 44, worse than ever i used to be and i have been told there is not a
lot that can be done for me i just have to learn to live with it! excuse me i
have been for the past 4 years.
They have told me i have prinzmetal angina, then changed their mind and said
syndrome x then changed their mind and said cornary artery syndrome.
This final diagnosis seems to be current favorite!
I wonder if anyone in the US has suffered the same or indeed if anyone has had
this problem and is getting better treatment over there than here.
In the UK we seem to only cater for very strange heart defects, CABG due the
effects of smoking for years and over eating and all the usual health problems
and what happens after an MI they don't seem to fund research into my complaint
or if they do i haven't found them.
Can anyone help? share the same problems? want to talk?
Ever hopeful
Jo
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