? Broken Heart

Hi,

I'm a 55 male, 240 pounds.  I flatlined 4 times one Sunday morning in 2004.  I had nuclear studies and ?persantine? stress tests in the past.

I now have a pacemaker defribrilator as a result of the heart attack and cardiac cath's.  I am  diabetic and have had 14 back surgeries, 1 neck fusion and a number of near fatal staph infections.

I can be talking to someone and my color will change from pink to pale to gray and I become diapheretic and weak. These sysptoms get me to the ER and often my troponin is OK but I wind up getting a nuclear med study which shows something on the back of the heart.  I then either end up getting a STAT stress test or another cardiac cath.  Usually I'm told everythiing is OK and they send me home.

Several times I have been told my troponin levels were a little elevated, the discussion ends with "We'll keep an eye on you" and I go home till the next time.

Someone told me that certain foods or medications can raise troponin levels.  I've looked online and can't find anything that I can understand.

Does anyone know of any foods, meds, whatever may raise the troponin levels so that I can avoid them and spend time with my new grandson?

I want to dies on my feet and not with my butt in a hospital room.  I've been through answers when I ask for my cardiologist "She's busy taking care of patients that are really sick".

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

BJ

[jim62]

The obvious thing to do would be to ask a cardiologist.

A DIFFERENT cardiologist.

If a doctor is too busy to treat ME, I take my business elsewhere.