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[Healthyworry]

Hello everyone.  I have a question regarding a good friend. He was a male of 40 years without any history of medical conditions. He was a jogger with low LDL cholesterol, BP at 110/60 and no family hx of cardiac disease or drug abuse. Yet for no apparent reason he died
Of a massive heart attack. Besides coronary artery disease what other factors can cause a deathly heart attack? I just heard once that strenuous effort that demands high oxygen levels can cause heart attacks when the heart is unable to provide for it. Is that true? Thanks

[thelma7]

To all who have problems sleeping lying down and have propped up in a chair, find a good recliner which fits you like a glove and sleep in it. I was first told that I had to stay in a recliner with shoulder surgery. I adjusted and am now hesitant to travel because I can't take my recliner. I sleep in it because of my spine and waking to migraines and backaches when laying flat. My next best solution for hotels is a blow up pool lounger float filled with pillows laying atop the bed.

Everyone should have their thyroid checked. Many individuals have symptoms of sluggish thyroid and metabolism, including low body temperature, weight gain, trouble losing weight and keeping it off, constipation, poor mood, dry skin, itching, and energy problems in the afternoon like hibernating metabolism, a dull and heavy head, feeling too cold, and too much fatigue.

You may begin to feel tired and listless, perhaps chilly when those about you are comfortably warm. As your skin, hair, and fingernails grow more slowly, they become thickened, dry, and brittle. Some hair loss may be noticed. Then, as your hypothyroidism becomes more severe, changes may occur in the tissues beneath your skin that lead to a characteristic puffy, swollen appearance known as myxedema. This is often particularly apparent around your face and eyes. Your circulation is affected and your heart rate slows, but you probably won't notice this unless someone happens to count your pulse (it may be below 60 beats per minute). Since your intestinal activity slows down, you may become constipated. A few pounds of weight gain may occur due to water retention, but you are not likely to get fat due to hypothyroidism alone because your appetite and zest for food decrease rather than increase when you become hypothyroid. Your muscles may become sore and you may be awakened at night with leg cramps. Muscle swelling may occur and may make your tongue (which is a muscle) bigger. Your nervous system may be affected in several ways. You may notice some memory loss, decreased ability to think, depression, and you may become more sensitive to medications, so that weak sedatives cause prolonged sleep. Some patients experience tingling in their fingers, or loss of balance and difficulty in walking.

I have most of the symptoms in the above senerios. It wasn't until I began to lose hair that I pointed out to my doctor that I had lost 1/2 my hair on top of my head in a 6 month period. (I had very thick coarse hair, so it wasn't apparent to anyone but me.) I had to beg him to take a thyroid test again in that short period of time. I was bottomed out. The pills of 50 mg helped some and brought it up to 1.7 with 1-4 being normal. But I still was depressed, just sitting for days on end watching tv and sleeping in my chair. My back muscles did not want to let me stand up straight after sitting for even 10-15 minutes. I asked him to try giving me a larger dose, but he declined.  

I found an iodine/iodide liquid in a bottle with a dropper. We all know salt is iodized to help the thyroid work. But you can't tolertate enough salt to get the meager amount of iodine. If I take a couple of drops of the solution every day, I feel good. I find that I get up and do things in the house that need to be done. My muscles are more reactive to my movements. I went on vacation for 10 days and forgot it. I collapsed when I got back. I can tell the difference in the better way that my body feels within 12-24 hours of taking the liquid.  It is J.Crow's Lugol's Solution 2%. And it is resonably priced on Amazon.com.

I also have swelling of my joints (fingers and toes) from Arthritis. Don't know which kind of arthritis it is. I eat gin soaked raisins to help. They must be the yellow golden raisins. Put an inch or so layer into a saucer. Cover the raisins about half way with gin. Let them have time for the alcohol to evaporate. Afterwards it doesn't taste much like nasty old gin. With the last batch I made, I just left them uncovered on my kitchen counter all day rather than covering and waiting days for the transformation. Then I transferred them to a sugar bowl above my sink.  When I first started this rememdy, I ate a couple of heaping teaspoons or more daily. If I would continue to eat them daily, I would have no swelling.  But I eat them for a while, feel good and go without for a couple of weeks until I wake one morning with thick feeling achy toes on my right foot. I go get a heaping teaspoon of raisins and my world levels out again.  I have heard that cherries are good to kill the pain of arthritis.

[CCFHeartMD 15]

Hello, I'm really sorry about your lost. The answer will really depend if your friend effectively had a heart attack (occluded artery of the heart). Sometimes a patient is presumed to have a sudden death because of a heart attack but that is not confirmed with an autopsy. By the information that you posted, his risk of coronary artery disease was low, so other etiologies are also possible include thrombophilia or increased coagulation of the blood that produce clots, malformation of coronary arteries, and a coronary artery dissection. If he did not have a real heart attack and was just a sudden death, possible causes include hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, myocarditis or inflammation of the heart, long QT syndrome, Brugada syndrome, and other less common causes.
In patients without a risk factor for heart attacks or cardiac arrhythmias, and with normal coronary arteries, doing strenuous effort is in general not a cause of heart attack. Best