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Recently diagnosed with CAD - Scared to live
Heart & Blood Health | Last Active: Mar 12 3:56pm | Replies (54)Comment receiving replies
@jaireeves17
Have you talked to your doctors about your concern and inability to sleep?
The treatment of CAD has improved so much over the last years. It is not a death sentence. You have stent put in so you doctors did what they needed to do to prevent issues. Millions of people have CAD and have had stents.
If you had CAD did they put you one a statin? What meds did they put you on and why?
I have a ICD/Pacemaker that went off 5 times in a couple of hours. They did a catherization. They found cornary arteries partially clogged one was at 60% but blood was flowing easy so they did not put a stent in. I jst had a friend in great shape have pressure on his chest. He had a catherization and showed a cornary artery was 90% blocked. He had stent put in and feels great and thankful it was found.
If you are unable to sleep please tell your doctors this. Many sleep aids out there. Also make sure they know your fear. Putting a stent into a artery that was clogged puts you in a much better health condition that someone who had not had a stent but is having pain or symptoms.
Also consider a counselor to help you with non medical ways of dealing with CAD. You are in the right place being on MCC. For me I have a ICD/Pacemaker now for almost 25 years. I do have CAD but being controlled by medications. I also have heart failure diagnosed back in 2000. I is almost 26 years later and I do Sprint Triathlons. Does that tell you something about medical treatments and help with being treated for CAD.
Please let your cardiologist and your primary doctor know your fears and also that you cannot sleep. Not getting a good night sleep is not good for you both mentally and physically. Some great sleep medications out there to help you with the stress of your diagnosis. But getting a stent in an artery is good news. It means it was caught early enough you did not have a heart attack and had heart muscle killed. You got what you needed.
How is your exercise regimen doing? Do you have hobbies? I have CAD and millions of other do also. We are living normal lives with normal activities. Consider yourseld lucky your caridologist did the catherization and found the blogged artery and did a stent. Should have made you feel better immediately. Think about all of us ohter there with clogged arteries and yours was taken care of.
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Hello milkmaid & jaireeves,
I've walked in your Moccasins... when I was diagnosed (by the Physicians Assistant in my GP's office) of having A-Fib, & then talked to my Dr., (her boss) they both explained, potentially It Can Be a fatal cardiac condition ... & they put me on a Toxic blood thinner. I too was traumatized + had 5 or 6 side-effects to that drug including Insomnia, (a big part was due to my fear & super-anxiety)! I had to ASK to be referred to a Cardiologist who was more understanding but couldn't change the prescrip. ordered by the other Dr. "That Was It!" - I left the GP practice (I'd used for Years) & found a New GP. The New GP then "soothed & smoothed my feathers"! She told me these types of Cardio abnormalities Can be a natural part of the Aging Process (I was 84 at the time), & that properly managed "Life Can Go On" with a few adjustments. Over the next 2 years when I felt Dr.'s weren't REALLY listening to me, prescribing an Alternative drug rather than doing a little research to find the Right drug FOR ME, I'd Find A New Cardiologist! I came to realize Dr.'s are Very Busy these days & their Clinics push them to 'get the patients In & Out A.S.A.P.'! In addition, when a Patient doesn't Really Doesn't Need an expensive Pharmaceutical, the Dr.'s are probably told, "Prescribe That Patient SOMETHING anyway!" I later learned that for a very-few number of Patients with Certain levels of Cardio Abnormalities, prescribing Low Dose Aspirin is Sufficient, Particularly if the Patient cannot tolerate the toxic Pharmaceuticals that are now available. And I have a Very Basic Policy, I WILL NOT Take A Drug to "fix" another Drug I'm taking (PERIOD). Please Find A Right Drug For Me!
Just yesterday a Physician Assistant with 30 years of experience admitted Pharmaceutical Companies commission or reward the Dr.'s OR their Practice for every Prescription written.
So There It Is! Ca-Ching$ Ca-Ching$ Ca-Ching$. It's the Tail (Big Pharma) Wagging The Dog (MOST Doctors &/or their Practice)! It took me 4 Years of asking Credible Medical People before someone would confirm My Greatest Suspicion! You wouldn't believe all the "Dodge-Ball" answers I'd get when I'd Ask Dr.'s this question (over the past 4 years ... some even Denied it.). And the PAA smiled when he said, "You're a pretty smart Cookie to have figured that out. Most patients Never make that connection or are afraid to ask the question.)