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This is very scary. So is he all right? It's a very clear message to all of us. I found out through facebook that my university mate died of "undiagnosed severe heart disease". We're the same age. He died with a drink his hand, laughing and singing with his wife. Thank you for posting this. We will check ourselves out and all good things to you and your hubby.
Oh wow. That is craziness! I'm glad everything was caught all right! How scary!
I'm so sorry you guys are going through this. I'm glad he is OK-well as OK as he can be I guess.
I love you honey.
wow thats majorly scary and such a wake up call for us!
Life is so short. Go hug your hubby tight, and when I get home I'm going to hug my hubby too.
Thanks everyone. We're waiting for his follow-up appointment where we find out more details as to what parts of his heart are perminately damaged. Honesly, there are no words for how I felt/feel.
@Just_Squeeze: I'm so sorry about your friend.
I'm glad he is allright. May I ask, what were his symptoms? Did you end up rushing him to the emergency room?
Oh wow, so sorry to hear this! Which reminds me, gotta make a physical appt for the hubs, I always have to twist his arm to go to the doc, but now I am going to make him read this post and go!
I hope his results are not that bad, and his condition is manageable :/
I'm sorry that happened to your hubby. I've been trying to tell my FI to take care of himself better and he doesn't want to hear it. He keeps saying he's fine and nothing is wrong, blah blah... So since I work for a natural supplement company, I bought him some supplements for man for him to start taking them, it's an AM and PM pack with all his vitamins in there for him to take. So far he's taking them and not complaining about it, so I guess it's doing something.
This is really scary and I'm so sorry you two are going through this! You are incredibly lucky to have found this without something worse happening. Try to think of it as a blessing that he can now be monitored. A lot of young men don't get that chance. This is what recently killed Andy Irons, who was also in his thirties and a pro surfer. I know just reading about his death was a wake up call of sorts for my own husband, who's father has had three heart attacks, and who's family has a deep history of heart issues.
Lots of thoughts and prayers headed your way!
Thank you. I was shocked to hear. They were newlyweds and he was one of the nicest guys I ever met.
Oh my gosh! I'm so, so sorry. I hope he is feeling ok now and that the doctors can treat this so that his heart is alright!
@2ndtime: He had a pressure in his chest and pain that went to both arms. It didn't effect his breathing. Because it went to both elbows, we didn't think heart attack. Actually, the ER doctor didn't either until he got back lab work which said there was damage to his heart.
@bree72: Yeah, I keep thinking about how lucky we are. I mean, our baby is due next month.
Wow. I cannot even begin to imagine how scary an ordeal the two of you have been t through. And thank you for thinking of others and trying to use this as a wake-up call to the rest of us.
I hope any damage is minimal and that he recovers fully.
That bubble wrap sentence made me want to break down and cry. People are so fragile, aren't they? We seem so substantial but one little internal block or malfunction can be dibilitating to our lives.
Oh my gosh I am so sorry. I hope everything is okay with him and that he is able to improve his health. You are both in my thoughts today :-)
Thank you for sharing.
Sometimes, I just want to scream. And get people to REALLY realize how fragile our life is. But people never ever really will until it hits their home.
My BIL died in his sleep suddenly 6 months ago. He was not the healthiest person in the world but he was also not the most unhealthiest. There were no unusual signs and symptoms and to this day we all still wonder did we miss any clues?
Turns out he had a 90% blockage in his arteries and had a heart attack in his sleep. The only thing we have to be thankful for is that he experienced no pain. This prompted his whole family to get checked up and I as well. My husband went through various testings and doctor appointments for a month to make sure his heart is working properly and there is no dangerous blockage building up. Turns out my extremely healthy husband who played sports his whole life, works out 3-5 days a week, eats healthier than anyone you or I know has high cholesterol. Genetics, f*ng sucks. He's 32 and for the rest of his life will be on cholesterol medicine so that we can try to prevent what happened to his brother. His other brother who is not as healthy as him is also on cholesterol medicine for the rest of his life.
It's scary knowing your husband has health issues that can be life threatening and knowing that there is nothing you can do about it or help him. I can't even imagine for him how scary & annoying to know this. To know that no matter how much he works out or how healthy we eat the only way to combat the condition is to take pills.
So, yeah, more than anyone we know how a seemingly healthy person can die at any second. Life is way too f*ng short.
Sending good thoughts your way that your husband's results come back normal.
And I haven't share this on here often and the reason I am is I want to stress how important it is for your husband to demand more intensive testing than just a physical with his doctor. I'm thinking insurance will allow it because he had a heart attack. Demand to see a cardiologist. Demand to have a stress test done.
Wow, I'm glad to hear everything is ok for now, hopefully you'll get good news on your next dr's visit. I just need to put in here that this is really happening more and more, I am an ICU nurse for a surgical ICU that mainly takes care of post-op heart surgery patients, and the patients we are seeing having bypass's and other heart surgery are getting younger and younger. The symptoms are pretty typical for most men, chest pressure, shortness of breath, radiating pain to the arms, neck, jaw, and shoulder, sweating (excessivly for no reason). Sometimes Nausea and back pain as well. Though I have had pt's with no symptoms that have turned out to have a heart attack and needed a surgery, and the only way we could tell was from EKG(heart monitor) changes and lab values.
also heart attacks are getting more common in women as well, but they don't always present with the typical symptoms. A lot of the time it's just nausea, or back pain. Not to say that women can't have the typical symptoms, it's just not as frequent, and I think a fair amount of heart attacks in women get missed due to this fact.
If you ever think that someone you know/around you may be having a heart attack, obviously call 911, but giving them an aspirin and having them chew it can help, and if you have access to any type of oxygen (which most people don't) give that to them too.
Anyways, sorry to hijack the thread there, I just wanted to put that out to everyone!
Oh Wow! I'm so sorry this has happened but so happy for you that he is ok!
Thank you for posting.
@Gerbera: Sounds like your husband and mine got the same bad deal in genetics. Is yours as grumpy as mine is about it? Mine hates limiting himiself and being on meds. It sucks knowing that eating healthy doesn't curb everything like we are told it does. I'm so sorry about your BIL and remember you saying he died suddenly a few months ago. You're right, Genetics, f*ng sucks.
This is very scary. Heart disease runs in my family and I'm pretty sure I'll have it one day too. To keep it at bay I exercise 5 hours a week doing intense heart pounding cardio and follow the same diet my dad was given by his cardiologist, which is actually a lot more difficult to do than one would expect. Salt is EVERYWHERE! Cereal, pasta sauce, lowfat cheese, its crazy! But even diet and exercise can't beat genetics, only help. My father who is very fit and trim and gets regular exercise and follows his "heart disease diet" to a T (he's very type A),but he's still at risk and has SUPER high cholesterol even though he eats nothing with more than 250 mg sodium, hasn't had an egg, cheese or red meat for three years! He still has sky high cholesterol without his lipitor. That being said, I agree with original poster and everyone should get regular DR visits b/c without the proper tests no one knows if they are at risk for a heart attack. Hope your hubby gets great treatment, and I'm sure with a few changes he'll be your hubby for years and years to come! I have a TON of info on heart disease and recipes, along with some grocery store brands we've discovered since switching over, feel free to PM me if you want anything. Its so scary, but make sure he gets his regular check ups, and if they put him on a blood thinner make sure to check out the foods that are high in Viatmin K (Vit K will thicken blood) so they dont counteract the thinner. I know with my dad he only had to take the thinners for the first year, then on to the regular HD disease siet.
@nickels: Vitamin K doesn't thicken the blood so much as counteracting the affect of Coumadin, which it sounds like is the blood thinner they put him on. There are other blood thinners with different things that affect them. The most common one is Aspirin, and Coumadin is the only other oral blood thinner, which is much stronger. All the rest are shots.
Thank you for sharing. My DH has not been to a doc in years. He is a small business owner and had not had health insurance. Now that we are married he was added to my health insurance. After reading this thread I just informed him that I was making a doctor's appointment for him. He had the nerve to give me grief! I told him the appointment would likely be in about 6 weeks so he had time to wrap his head around the idea. I hope he actually goes. I don't know what it is with men not wanting to go to the doctor! Thanks again for your thread. It has motivated me to make an appointment for him.
@TheFutureMcBride: Also, I'm not meaning to belittle you & your DH's situation but just give you hope. My dad also had severe damage. During his heart attack they had to use the defibullator twice. I can't remember the exact percentage of damage, but it was A LOT. It was actually very depressing. BUT after a year of his physical therapy and diet change and statins, he actually undid some of the damage, which really surprised his cardiologist, so it can be done! Also, if you get a chance to go to the check ups and even some of the nutrition courses with him I know my dad found it really helpful having my mom and I go. I think sometimes its so much info in such a stressful time they can't take it all in. Plus if you're following the same diet and exercise program, he'll be more likely to do it too. Plus my mom lost 20 lbs just from diet change (added bonus)! They ate really healthy to begin with, the only thing she really had to change was to use eggbeaters, no more red meat twice a week, add some salmon into the weekly schedule and AVOID salt, the salt was by far the hardest since its hidden in everything.
I'm so glad you shared this, TheFutureMcBride. It must've been terrifying, but it's such a good message for all of us to be aware that even the healthiest among us are vulnerable to tragedy. Hugs. I'm always keeping the McBride family in my prayers, but I'll say an extra little prayer tonight that your hubby's condition is not as severe as it could be and that he'll have a fast recovery.
Sending you both all my best wishes and good thoughts for healing. My FI's father has had several heart attacks, with his first one coming in his late 30s. It's made my FI so much more conscious about his health, but as the doctor said, even with perfect diet and exercise, he's at about 4x the normal risk for heart disease and diabetes just because of his genes. So he does the best he can (extremely healthy eating, running, walking, and lifting weights every day), but still lives with the fear.
That is terrifying. Makes me want to drag my husband to a doctor's appointment this very second! I'm glad he is still with us!
I'm so sorry to hear this news. I hope your husband is able to make a full recovery. Please don't forget to take care of yourself at this difficult time.
My mom who is a nuse says that she has seen so many men who appear to be really fit or don't fit the heart disease profile who have heart diease. We need to encourage folks to get physicals and their colestrol tested. I'm so glad my husband's employer had an incentive program to get a phyiscal it helped me to push him to go.
@dolphi99: He was given a list of Vitamin K rich foods to avoid while on Coumadin and an aspirin regimen (same time). Maybe its the dosage that makes a difference? I just remember it was really strict DR about the Vitamin K.
I know he was on Aspirin 325 mg daily, Couamdin 5mg, Lipitor 80mg, Lisinoprol 2.5mg, Plavix 75 mg, Protonix 40mg and tpoprol XL 50 mg.
@nickels: Yeah Vitamin K is what we give when a pt has had too much coumadin and has too high of a clotting time level. It reverses the effects of coumadin, so you don't want to consume food high in Vit K for that reason or the coumadin doesn't work, you just cancel it out. I'm really glad to hear he's doing so well after everything, it's great that he reversed some of the damage.
And TheFutureMcBride, I hope everything works out well for you both, if you need someone to talk to, or have any questions about some of that crazy medical lingo I'm here for you. I'll help where I can and if I can't, I know plenty of people who probably can.
Stop to eat and the thread just blows up. Thank you everyone for the info, especially the medical people and people who've been through this. I've read all the responses, but can't reply to everyone because I really should do some work 
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((hugs)) honey. I hope he's feeling better and that the test results come back with something you can work with and work on. Sending lots of happy thoughts to you both honey. ((hugs)) ((hugs)) ((hugs))
OMG, I'm glad he's okay! Sending lots of hugs, and happy thoughts your way!
So sorry you guys had to go through that - and at such an already stressful time.
I'm glad he's OK and I hope there's good ways to manage his condition.
My husband is also super sporty, works out a ridiculous amount, is lean and eats healthy. But high blood pressure runs in his family as does heart attacks. He's known he's had very high blood pressure for awhile now but also hates taking medication, he'll go on it and then go off of it. We tried for awhile to see if we could manage it with different dietary changes and I never cook with salt. One summer his pressure was down for a couple months but we never could figure out why since diet and exercise and stress all seemed the same as normal. Luckily with the baby here he's decided to go back on the bp medication and hopefully stay. Genetics plays a big role in health and guys are stubborn.
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I've been very honest with the Hive, so I'm going to continue that honesty with this post even though, really, I can barely think about it because it's just too soon. I'm doing this because maybe it'll help someone else out.
My husband wasn't feeling well the other night. It turns out that he was having a heart attack even though he's in his mid 30s, in good health, and used to be a semi-pro athlete until about 4 years ago.
Today, I decided to read a little about it and what little I've read scares the crap out of me because doctors call where his blockage was "the widow maker." Now, more than ever, I want to wrap him in bubble wrap and not let him do anything which could possibly hurt him, but I can't.
My point is, just because our husbands are young, in shape, whatever, they need to get checkups just to check everything out. That goes for us too. You never know what's lurking under the surface.