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Chest Pains without enzymes showing a heart attack
I have been experiencing severe chest pains much like that when I had my prior heart attacks. I went to the ER over a week ago and after a stress test, it was determined that it was angina. But now, not only do I have the chest pains, I am having skipped beats that takes my breath away. It is so hard to catch my breath at times. I also have a feeling of faintness from time to time. I am without insurance, so I can't follow up with a cardologist, but I know there is something wrong. I can't convince the residents at the county hospital of this. I am wondering if a heart cath would prove this. It sucks today without insurance. I always had it until I lost my job. I went to the ER with chest pains and shortness of breath shortly after I lost this job and before I could put a policy in place. They found the right coronary artery was blocked 90%. That was it. I had been diagnosed with CAD and now no insurance will accept me unless I have around $800 a month for a policy that won't cover the CAD for 12 months anyway................Please help!!
Jack. Please don't leave. You need this Forum and this Forum needs you. You have a wealth of knowledge and personal experiences as well as the desire to share it. I realize you and I have had our differences on the HCOL board but that's in the past as far as I am concerned.
Regards
Tony
Regards
Tony
LOL, it took me forever to find this again and I thought it had poofed as I forgot the thread title and access. I should not post, not here, not anywhere, and I apologize again to Chatter who is appropriately trying to stay de-stressed (and should, as this is all silly nonsense and only a temporary digression). On the other hand, I wanted to respond to those who speciifically named me. I have never been good at being transparent or anonymous. It is a personal flaw LOL!
Celeste, you sound like a very sweet and sincere woman. I wish I could stay and learn your story (and probably others who are here but, once burned, twice shy, on a semi-public site like this one). [I think this is the hcol replacement site no one was coming to? or is this somewhere else?].
I wish you all well anyway.... :) TY, Celeste, for your response(s) to me and to others I see above, and if the contamination has extended here and especially if I have added to it, I am sorry. There are other sites with more zealous moderation. If you feel you need support, do not give up looking around.
U&A (why does that sound odd and maybe even ominous to me already?).... You know me not at all (or do you?....and, if you do, why would you make these pronouncements regarding my personality style?). I have to tell you, quite frankly, that I value your opinion less than the extent to which I expect you know me....no insult intended. I just have WAY better reality testing now, about these sites and some of the people and their issues who/which inhabit them. And just who are you?? :) Masks off?? Hard to pay any attention at all to those who hide....:)
Vienna, I appreciate the ?compliment.... I think anyway....I cannot stay 'though, whatever you may choose to call me, and I still wish you all the best although I do not think I truly know you. I wondered who "Vee" was and now I know :). Are you a Cdn?
Jack? BE WELL!! MIDCAB sounds infinitely better to me than CABG. HONESTLY!! You and I have the same nasty genetics and similar physiology: left dominant coronary artery system and strong familial history. You have had 3 years to prep for this surgery...I had 4 days in early 2004 (I was 52 then) to prep for open heart CABG. You CAN do this! It is not such a biggy. My issues were complications. The surgery was a piece of cake...well, sort of, not really LOL!...Still, 't was better than I expected. :)
BTW, is there really a wife of that name--the poster? You have no idea how that affected some and even extended people LOL....You see, I am a videogame nut and I 'worked it thru' on a couple of games for weeks/likely months (now saved to the hard-drive of my computer as a sort of...what?...LOL...tribute/memorial/penance?? I am sure the saves and desktop icons would have gone eventually!). These were games featuring you and your family by name as I recalled or had been informed, post mortem, and included all the' featured players' on the various sites, villains and heroes...Silly me LOLOLOL!! This should free up some megabytes for me for sure LOLOLOL!!
I apologize for my irreverence and tell you I am still glad you are all still alive (ALL of you, despite some of you being mighty twisted). I am hugely glad actually. It means good sh-- happens as well as just the usual , regular 'sh-- happen'-ing'.... Also it says that we are all survivors in some strange way. Anyone else not expect to get to this age?...or not understand why we have?
Fear not, cardiac newbies. These people (the principal players') are just frustrated. They are actually full of information and support but most of them feel so helpless that they fight among themselves. I think they are all useful and worthy people, even the cantankerous ones. If you ask them for help, they will maybe behave better...:).They are good-hearted, despite their cardiac issues, and they need a focus. Me? I am going back to my (LOL surreal?) life....:)
When my specific madness is past LOL, perhaps I shall return.
Bonne choix!
j
PS Vienna is from Canada?
PPS Oops, sorry, I think I was the one to 'wax eloquent'......
Celeste, you sound like a very sweet and sincere woman. I wish I could stay and learn your story (and probably others who are here but, once burned, twice shy, on a semi-public site like this one). [I think this is the hcol replacement site no one was coming to? or is this somewhere else?].
I wish you all well anyway.... :) TY, Celeste, for your response(s) to me and to others I see above, and if the contamination has extended here and especially if I have added to it, I am sorry. There are other sites with more zealous moderation. If you feel you need support, do not give up looking around.
U&A (why does that sound odd and maybe even ominous to me already?).... You know me not at all (or do you?....and, if you do, why would you make these pronouncements regarding my personality style?). I have to tell you, quite frankly, that I value your opinion less than the extent to which I expect you know me....no insult intended. I just have WAY better reality testing now, about these sites and some of the people and their issues who/which inhabit them. And just who are you?? :) Masks off?? Hard to pay any attention at all to those who hide....:)
Vienna, I appreciate the ?compliment.... I think anyway....I cannot stay 'though, whatever you may choose to call me, and I still wish you all the best although I do not think I truly know you. I wondered who "Vee" was and now I know :). Are you a Cdn?
Jack? BE WELL!! MIDCAB sounds infinitely better to me than CABG. HONESTLY!! You and I have the same nasty genetics and similar physiology: left dominant coronary artery system and strong familial history. You have had 3 years to prep for this surgery...I had 4 days in early 2004 (I was 52 then) to prep for open heart CABG. You CAN do this! It is not such a biggy. My issues were complications. The surgery was a piece of cake...well, sort of, not really LOL!...Still, 't was better than I expected. :)
BTW, is there really a wife of that name--the poster? You have no idea how that affected some and even extended people LOL....You see, I am a videogame nut and I 'worked it thru' on a couple of games for weeks/likely months (now saved to the hard-drive of my computer as a sort of...what?...LOL...tribute/memorial/penance?? I am sure the saves and desktop icons would have gone eventually!). These were games featuring you and your family by name as I recalled or had been informed, post mortem, and included all the' featured players' on the various sites, villains and heroes...Silly me LOLOLOL!! This should free up some megabytes for me for sure LOLOLOL!!
I apologize for my irreverence and tell you I am still glad you are all still alive (ALL of you, despite some of you being mighty twisted). I am hugely glad actually. It means good sh-- happens as well as just the usual , regular 'sh-- happen'-ing'.... Also it says that we are all survivors in some strange way. Anyone else not expect to get to this age?...or not understand why we have?
Fear not, cardiac newbies. These people (the principal players') are just frustrated. They are actually full of information and support but most of them feel so helpless that they fight among themselves. I think they are all useful and worthy people, even the cantankerous ones. If you ask them for help, they will maybe behave better...:).They are good-hearted, despite their cardiac issues, and they need a focus. Me? I am going back to my (LOL surreal?) life....:)
When my specific madness is past LOL, perhaps I shall return.
Bonne choix!
j
PS Vienna is from Canada?
PPS Oops, sorry, I think I was the one to 'wax eloquent'......
This has gone way to far. This board is supposed to be moderated. I haven't checked yet, but I would assume that Med Help International receives funds from prestigious institutions like the Cleveland Clinic and the National Jewish Research and Medical. My wife has been treated at National Jewish and I have been treated at the Cleveland Clinic once and plan to have surgery there fairly soon.
I am going to contact these institutions and ask them to read all of the garbage written on this board about me. I have CAD and other heart problems. Anxiety is documented to cause angina in myself. These false accusations should never have been allowed to be made. I have never threatened to kill anyone, even after the second stroke I had, plus the alcohol I consumed. I may be dumb, but I am not crazy. Death threats are a serious offense and had I made them, one or more of you would have turned me in and I would probably went to jail.
Had the moderator assigned to this heart board done the right thing, she would have immediately banned all of you who have made accusations against me, such as the death threats. All of you have violated the terms of use of this board, without impunity.
I have done nothing wrong here on this board. I came here only to give and get support. Yet "Jim" has treated me like an animal. I believe that when the moderator of this board said "if there is any proof then show it, or stop the accusations"; it appears by this statement that if there was proof then she would let all things from past events not occurring on THIS board, whether true or not, "PLAY OUT" to the end. This is what has happened and I feel very depressed about how this was handled.
Read the agreement that you signed before you joined this website. I have copied all of the accusations made here, along with the degrading trash talk by the "Jim" character. Legally any of you along with this website can be held responsible for deformation of character.
If the board is properly cleaned up, I will harbor no ill will toward anyone as long as I am not persecuted by anyone for past gang fights on a now defunct heart support forum.
I am going to contact these institutions and ask them to read all of the garbage written on this board about me. I have CAD and other heart problems. Anxiety is documented to cause angina in myself. These false accusations should never have been allowed to be made. I have never threatened to kill anyone, even after the second stroke I had, plus the alcohol I consumed. I may be dumb, but I am not crazy. Death threats are a serious offense and had I made them, one or more of you would have turned me in and I would probably went to jail.
Had the moderator assigned to this heart board done the right thing, she would have immediately banned all of you who have made accusations against me, such as the death threats. All of you have violated the terms of use of this board, without impunity.
I have done nothing wrong here on this board. I came here only to give and get support. Yet "Jim" has treated me like an animal. I believe that when the moderator of this board said "if there is any proof then show it, or stop the accusations"; it appears by this statement that if there was proof then she would let all things from past events not occurring on THIS board, whether true or not, "PLAY OUT" to the end. This is what has happened and I feel very depressed about how this was handled.
Read the agreement that you signed before you joined this website. I have copied all of the accusations made here, along with the degrading trash talk by the "Jim" character. Legally any of you along with this website can be held responsible for deformation of character.
If the board is properly cleaned up, I will harbor no ill will toward anyone as long as I am not persecuted by anyone for past gang fights on a now defunct heart support forum.
Well, Celeste, if you hadn't noticed that Vienna is part of the "new board order", you have missed some of the most arrogant, insulting comments on the board. You can be sure she will "wax eloquent" after this post.............As for *some* of the others.not all, they suffer from varying degrees of mental, or emotional, (I'm not knowlegable about psyche speak ) "issues". and you are right, they sure seem to have taken over the board.
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