To All Forum Participants

[Philip1815]

Dear Forum Participants,

We are sorry we have had to dramatically limit the number of questions we allow on a daily basis in this forum due to  limitations of sponsorship funding. If your organization can sponsor this Forum, we and all others that visit here would be more than grateful. Please contact us.  

Unfortunately we must ask...

-Please do not post a question under someone else's question, it will not be answered.

-If you <B> really really </B> need <I>urgent</I> medical help the Web is not the place to be, please call your personal physician or your Emergency Medical Services as soon as possible.

-If you need a second opinion, we cannot recommend a better institution than The Cleveland Clinic Heart Center.

Again, sorry for the cutbacks :(


Regards,
Med Help International

[Other resources? Forums?]

I have only recently found this site, and I see how unfortunate
it is that questions are no longer being taken. It seemed to have been and absolutely wonderful service for absolutely free and I'm sure it will be missed

Unfortunately, like others here, my specific question has not been covered at all within the archives.  Are there other question/answer forums such as this dealing with heart disease?

If not -- is there a way this forum could be redirected as some sort of 'membership' forum?  Would anyone be willing to pay a fee for the privelidge of sharing this information here

[Jim]

Why is this the only forum with the limit on questions?  The others are still taking more than 0-1 questions?

[John]

C'est le vie.

[Jacki Drewnoski]

Hi I have been having heart trouble for several years now.I have Sinus Tach,PVC( alot of them) and I also have had AFIB and Vtach.I have had many doctors run tests and try many medictions that did not help over the years.It seems to be like spells I can be good for months and then all of a sudden start up with a lot of Palpations.I am right now into a bad spell and a halter monitor was put on it was one of many that I have had over the years and what it showed was I was having an enormous amount of Pvc and small runs of v tach.I have been to cleavland university and had seen Dr.Biblow and he found a bulge on my heart and thought for sure that that was where everything was coming from so we did and Obblation only to find out of five hours of surgery that they could not get the heart to go into arrimias from the area of the bulge  so no abblation was done.I had been the first patient he had that was not able to be cured by this abblation.So basicilly he told me there was nothing we could do except treat the eppisodes as they came.Which is what i have been doing but I am know working and I can not be missing work for this.They tell me I have a healthy heart but the electrical circits that contral my heart beat are just not working.No they are planning to do another stress tes with something else so that they can make sure their is not heart disease,if there is none they will put me on a medication they might work but it is very dangerous if there is any heart disease.I have had to be hospitalized back in the 80s with a fib I was in ccu for a week and they could not get the a fib to break finnally they did.But the reason for why it happens was never found.I am at the end of my rope now.I have been everywhere and had every test you can think of to find out what is wrong with me and all I get is we just do not know enough about the electrical circut of the heart to know.I can not keep living like this I am tired all the time. I am short of breath and dizzy every time my heart is out of wack .I would like to know if you know of any one who might have an answere to this problem,or do you have any other patients that have these symptoms.I am now 42 years old and the arryhthmisa started about ten years ogo or so.I started out with just sinus tach and some pvc and know I am up to three of four different kinds of arriythmias.I am worried about blood clots everytime I have these bad spells since they last for weeks sometimes months.Any help you could give me or who you would reccomend I see would be greatly appreciated.My local Cardiolists is Dr Richard Arnott in Salem Ohio.The keep telling me that my arrithmias are not life threatning to there knowledge none has died from these but I feel my quality of life is suffering greatly and I am missing a lot of work do to this and I can not afford to loose my job. My doctor right now has me on bed rest and Xanis for 7 to 10 days to see if we can get the pvc to break.And is scedually more test.But I need to know if there have been any advancments made in this area that might possibley help me.Thank you so much and If you could get back to me as soon as possible I would really appreciate it.Thank you Jacki Drewnoski

[John McQ]

I concur with those who have expressed disapointment with the loss of an extremely valuable resource,  Just with reading those submissions even after the fact of your announcement from people requiring help, demonstrates the need of this site.

Its all very well for us to be disappointed with our loss but I feel that we should be looking for solutions to be able to continue rather than accept a defeat due to lack of funding.

I also propose that a user fee be put in place either in the form of cost per submission or a membership fee. I personally would be willing to work with an arrangement like that where everyone who uses the resource pays for it. For someone who cannot afford the fee, free access to view the forum should be allowed to review the correspondence for answeres but anyone wishing to submit information should pay the fee.

Lets work together on this.

Thank you
John McQueen

[nancy]

This forum has been very valuable especially for piece of mind.  I like the idea of a membership fee or some other way. There must be a cardiac drug company that would be able to sponsor the forum, I think that all readers should band together to keep the forun solvent.  I trained at the clinic a number of years ago and beleive in the Foundation and I hope that there is someone or organization that will keep this forum alive.  Thank you for your help in the last months and I hope that we won't loose you.
Nancy