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41yo Male 15 stents RCA 100% for the 3rd time
From age 34 to 41 I have received 15 stents. My blockages happen rapidly and severe. My right coronary artery has been completely stented from top to bottom twice and my right coronary artery is 100% blocked again for the 3rd time. My cardiologist informed me that we can not fix it anymore. I now feel constant chest pain, shortness or breath, no energy. I can't live this way. In Vegas I've encountered doctors who say they can help and then throw their hands up. I've gone out of state and have had little success. I have blockages in my circumflex and LAD. Is it true that there is nothing else to be done with my RCA. Do I have to live without my RCA from now on? Believe me, there is nothing I haven't tried. I even contacted Cleveland Clinic when the study was going on to inject the good cholesterol. I was not a candidate. The blockages that should take many years to cause me trouble, end up causing my serious trouble within months.
Thanks for your post. I do not smoke and never have. I was very healthy, working out all of the time when we found out about my condition. I have a hereditary disease, however, no one else in my family has any heart problems, lipid problems.
There is a procedure called EECP therapy. Our hospital has recently acquired the equipment, and the procedure is covered by insurance.
The procedure is specifically for individuals that are unable to have surgery, and success rate is about 80% for up to 3 years for those patients that complete the 35 hour course (1 hour each day for 7 weeks) .
For some insight, individual is on a comfortable treatment table with large cuffs wrapped around legs and buttocks. Cuff inflates and deflates at specific times between heart beats. An EKG's continuous output synchronizes the inflation of the cuffs and pressure is an external counterpulsation. If the treatment is successful, it is due to the develoment of collateral vessels that reroute the blood flow bypassing blockage.
The procedure is specifically for individuals that are unable to have surgery, and success rate is about 80% for up to 3 years for those patients that complete the 35 hour course (1 hour each day for 7 weeks) .
For some insight, individual is on a comfortable treatment table with large cuffs wrapped around legs and buttocks. Cuff inflates and deflates at specific times between heart beats. An EKG's continuous output synchronizes the inflation of the cuffs and pressure is an external counterpulsation. If the treatment is successful, it is due to the develoment of collateral vessels that reroute the blood flow bypassing blockage.
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