Health - don’t ignore the symptoms!

[rapalaman]

So for the last three weeks or so I’ve been getting increasingly fatigued, out of breath  with a bit of tightness across the chest, so much so that walking at normal pace for 50m saw me breathing like I’d sprinted 200m - that’s unlikely at the grand age of 60 mind. Finally managed to get into the quacks on Monday - straight to a&e from there. Diagnosed with exertional angina. Had angiogram yesterday afternoon  - two blocked arteries ☹️

Currently awaiting transfer to cardiac unit to have a couple of stents fitted which could take a couple of days to a week

Very luckily I seem to have avoided a full blown heart attack and there’s only minor damage.

I eat well, don’t smoke, like a few beers/wine, could work all day no problems including a bit of easier climbing when I fancied it. No previous symptoms before a month ago - never imagined it would happen to me. My wife’s had 3 heart attacks, 6 stents, full bypass, femoral anrtery bypass and is often in a wheelchair so I have to be there to care for her.

So please - any warning signs, don’t ignore them and think “I’ll be fine, it’ll pass” - get yerself checked out 👍

[maybelateron]

Sorry to hear this. We never know what is round the corner. Fortunately the management of ischaemic heart disease has come a very long way over the last 40 years. One guy in the village had his stents more than fifteen years ago and returned to work as a roofer very quickly. At 85 he has only just stopped walking his dog, but due to arthritis, still no angina come back. Hope the stents happen asap and all goes well.

[rapalaman]

Thank you 👍

[BillQ]

Glad you got it sorted, one of my siblings has had stents fitted and has had 10+ years and is still going, sadly my father had one massive attack which he was never going to recover from. 

Hopefully you'll be back on your feet and getting fitter soon 

[Sviatoslav Tulin]

Wish you fast and full recovery!  Sadly there in Ireland very hard to get help before you are in critical situation , even if you ready to pay big cash still … delays! 

[Tree monkey 1682]

10 hours ago, rapalaman said:

So for the last three weeks or so I’ve been getting increasingly fatigued, out of breath  with a bit of tightness across the chest, so much so that walking at normal pace for 50m saw me breathing like I’d sprinted 200m - that’s unlikely at the grand age of 60 mind. Finally managed to get into the quacks on Monday - straight to a&e from there. Diagnosed with exertional angina. Had angiogram yesterday afternoon  - two blocked arteries ☹️

Currently awaiting transfer to cardiac unit to have a couple of stents fitted which could take a couple of days to a week

Very luckily I seem to have avoided a full blown heart attack and there’s only minor damage.

I eat well, don’t smoke, like a few beers/wine, could work all day no problems including a bit of easier climbing when I fancied it. No previous symptoms before a month ago - never imagined it would happen to me. My wife’s had 3 heart attacks, 6 stents, full bypass, femoral anrtery bypass and is often in a wheelchair so I have to be there to care for her.

So please - any warning signs, don’t ignore them and think “I’ll be fine, it’ll pass” - get yerself checked out 👍

Lucky bastard 

[s.varty]

I am a bit older than you and you get to a certain age and you realise that wealth is health not money , good to read you have been sorted .

[Steven P]

11 hours ago, Sviatoslav Tulin said:

Wish you fast and full recovery!  Sadly there in Ireland very hard to get help before you are in critical situation , even if you ready to pay big cash still … delays! 

 

From personal experience?.... or told by a bloke down the pub?

[Steven P]

As a group, men are very poor at popping in to the doctors, they would much prefer you 'waste their time' with a 10 minute check up once or twice a year to catch things early, than a weekly 10 minute visit where they up your pill doses. Same with mental health... and guess which industries are hit hard with that one!

 

Point is, we are here only once, look after yourselves to make the most of it. Doctors are free to use so why not.

[openspaceman]

29 minutes ago, Steven P said:

Point is, we are here only once, look after yourselves to make the most of it. Doctors are free to use so why not.

I wish! The only doctors I see are in A&E, Local practice has changed hands so many times I know their history better than what's on their website.