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My Husband is Home from the Hospital, But We're Both Tired

Deborah-Diane @DeborahDiane (40843) • Laguna Woods, California 4 Jan 19

My husband is home from the hospital, but we are exhausted after he was there for almost the entire week, and I spent 12-13 hours a day there with him. He had an attack of angina, Afib, and pauses in his heartbeat. The good...

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A Review Of My 2018

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 3 Jan 19

The year just parted was a good one for me overall, though it lacked paid work. I started the year with the bulk of my pay from the Xmas work I did for the post office in 2017. Sadly, despite expectation I wasn’t rehired in...

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My Husband is in the Hospital

Deborah-Diane @DeborahDiane (40843) • Laguna Woods, California 2 Jan 19

Early this morning, I had to rush my husband to the hospital. We thought he was having a heart-attack, but now it appears he may have had a pulmonary embolism, which is a blood clot in the lungs. Our daughters who live on the...

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Memories

Susan @HazySue (39265) • Gouverneur, New York 2 Jan 18

Moving into a new year always seems to bring back memories of the past year to mind. This past year has been a rough one for me. My mother passed away in January. My brother and I are no longer in touch (for many reasons). My...

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Aspirin: To Treat Strokes, Heart Attacks, and Chest Pain?

Macarrosel @Macarrosel (7498) • Philippines 14 Sep 17

I am 53 years old and it's my first time to underwent a general medical/physical examination. This includes laboratory testing, mammography, Pap smear, ultra vaginal sound and derma care. Well, almost everything is normal and...

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My son needs a pacemaker--he's only 29!

dragon54u @dragon54u (31633) • United States 23 May 17

I'm not looking for sympathy but this involves something I was not aware of and it may help someone. 15% of people under 30 need pacemakers because they have a sinus rhythm with second degree AV block. The cardiologist said it's...

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Heart Attack?

patgalca @patgalca (18481) • Orangeville, Ontario 23 Mar 17

I haven't been around much and have a lot of catching up to do and create. I will start with one thing for now and hope I can get back on here later. I've been having chest pains, which is a symptom of fibromyalgia. So I tend to...

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What Causes Kidney Disease

Deborah-Diane @DeborahDiane (40843) • Laguna Woods, California 12 Mar 16

After I wrote my last article about kidney disease, I had several people ask about the causes and symptoms of this silent killer. I'm not an expert, but here are some of the things I have learned. First, kidney stones are not...

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Kidneys and Heart Disease - A Deadly Combination

Deborah-Diane @DeborahDiane (40843) • Laguna Woods, California 12 Mar 16

While my husband and I were speaking at National Kidney Day about the effect his kidney disease and medication has had on him and our family, the kidney doctor (known as a nephrologist) who also spoke that day taught us a great...

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My Husband and Brother-in-Law are So Alike!

Deborah-Diane @DeborahDiane (40843) • Laguna Woods, California 7 Feb 16

My husband and my sister's husband are so much alike! Here are some examples. A year ago, my husband had a heart attack; he drove himself home from a business meeting, before I took him to the hospital. Last week, my...

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Is Ibuprofen Bad For Your Heart?

Patti G @Pattitude (1286) • Newton, North Carolina 26 Oct 15

The FDA has started adding label warnings to ibuprofen products, including Aleve, that there is an increased risk of heart attack and strokes. I used to eat these things like crazy due to my arthritis, which I don't seem to have...

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Statin Drugs Bad For You?

Patti G @Pattitude (1286) • Newton, North Carolina 26 Oct 15

So now statins, which were supposed to be good to help people lower their 'bad' cholesterol and lower the risk of heart attacks, is now detrimental to our health. These drugs include Lipitor, Crestor and Zocor. They can damage...

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Avoid heart attacks.How?

cale7777777 @cale7777777 (16) • Philippines 25 Jul 12

Did you know most heart attacks, occurs inside the bathroom or during taking a bath. How can we avoid this? Experts says one way of avoiding this is to drink one glass of water before taking a bath..

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Eating Till Our Heart Thumps!

Elizabeth White @Masihi (4413) • Canada 27 Dec 11

This is what I see every year. Not so much in our kids and but I sure see it in my husband and everywhere else. People are constantly eating over the holiday season. And yesterday, we were invited out to a 50th birthday party. I...

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High Cholesterol

yspmyl @yspmyl (3435) • Malaysia 20 Dec 10

Recently our company have given us the medical checkup and now the result is out. I am fit in everything except I have a high cholesterol, especially the LDL which is the bad cholesterol that is over the normal limit. In many...

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Fabulous News - Chocolate is no longer bad for U - or is it ?

typeahead123 @typeahead123 (8) 16 May 10

The myth is that chocolate is bad for you, but today's 'Fabulous' News is that Chocolate helps your heart. Of course, they don't give much away - apparently, it is based on the finding that 7.5g of dark chocolate [that is just ONE...

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Heart Attacks linked to Daylight Savings time change?? How strange!

Tallygirl09 @Tallygirl09 (1380) • United States 13 Mar 10

I just read an article that there is a high risk of a having a heart attack on the Tuesday following the Spring forward part of the daylight savings changes! They didn't say what the causes were but maybe it's stress related....

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What does 'To die of natural causes mean?

mipen2006 @mipen2006 (5528) • Australia 18 Jun 09

A news story reported a pilot flying across the Atlantic died of natural causes. I haven't heard this for so long, I wondered if he died of old age. At 61 I would have thought he was too young. Also, being a pilot he would have...

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angioplasty procedure

menctomas @menctomas (278) • Philippines 5 Jan 09

Happy New Year to Everyone! I hope that everyone in the mylot community had a good one. i am back after so many months. i have a question to ask. does anybody know about angioplasty procedure. (coronary) my father had a heart...

My Mom

Kat4676 @Kat4676 (474) • United States 21 Jul 08

I love my mom dearly but, she calls at least every hour of every day and she only live 2 blocks away. And I think her health issues are why. Last June she had a Medtronic Pacemaker Defribulator put in and now it is on recall....

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