Been wearing five stents since a heart attack a couple years ago. We now walk/jog five miles a day or ride our bikes 25-35. Just returned from four days and 36 miles climbing trails in the Rockies. They are OK with me.
Bet there is no one like him in socialized medicine utopias like the UK or Canada...
I would propose large doses of fish oil and allicin (chew your fresh garlic) as a safer and more effective alternative to a stent.
The only medicine I take is 1 regular aspirin a day.
My health is good today, and I'm thankful to have found very good doctors who knew what they were doing. I am living a full life (well, a full live for a senior citizen, which I definitely am--LOL!)
Does this mean that all the stents, like breast implants, shall have to be removed? This would seem to be an extraordinarily difficult procedure....
Naw, it can all be solved with a class-action suit, in which 10,000 lawyers represent all the thousands of patients who have undergone the procedure, collecting some 75% of the actual disbursements from the malpractice insurance companies, distributing the remaining 25% to the members of the class, and totally eliminating this procedure from practice ever again in this country.
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My uncle has had stints put in 3 times now. The first time was after he had a heart attack and even after the stints were put in he had two more heart attacks. They placed more stints after each heart attack, but they have kept him from needing open heart surgery, so far anyway!
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Had a stress test a week ago per my companies demand for annual physical.....in my mid fifties I figured it was a good idea and they used cardiolite ? Anyway long story short...Doc said I was healthy ......no blockages, zero problems ect etc .....
I was worried due my father having to have a triple bypass at age 45...easy to do , no stress stress test per se.....:o)
I got two stents implanted in June. The larger of the two was medicated, but the smaller one was not due to it’s small size (apparently, they don’t make medicated stents that small).
My cardiologist leads me to believe that I’ll be on Plavix and aspirin forever, though as I told him, forever is a very long time. At some point, something better will come along. Hell, at some point, they’ll be able to grow me a brand new heart in a petri dish.
I sure would love to be off of Plavix and aspirin, though. The combination of the two can make minor cuts and scrapes bleed for a disturbingly long time. But if this article is to be believed, late stent thrombosis doesn’t sound like any fun, so maybe forever isn’t as long as I’d thought.
When they scheduled my operation, they had initially sent me to have another experimental procedure - using a laser to clean the walls of the blood vessels. I don't hear any more about that program, so I may be lucky that I got the system that worked.
One problems with stents (and this is anecdotal, and probably unusual) is that they come loose and kill the patient. This happened to one of my coworker’s sisters. The stent wasn’t where it had been installed when she was checked, and of course she was dead, so there wasn’t any point looking for it.
BTW, cardiac cath lab visits are down across the board up here in New England. The cardiologists and techs I know attribute it more to the decline in smoking and increased use of statins than anything else.