Anyone have heart catheterization?

[alarmguy]

Interesting video on aspirin.
Being the only male in my family that has not had a heart attack, quadruple bypass and diabetes.

However, I still have significant CVD, but not enough blockage to require any intervention confirmed by a cardiac angiogram.

I have always ate different from the other male members of my family and I honestly feel that is the reason I have not needed intervention, even though I have plaque all over the place. I have the gene with high Lipo A.

Anyway, for decades, so many decades I don’t even know how long anymoreI was taking one full dose of aspirin a day and only in the last maybe 15 years, reduced it to a baby aspirin a day. I got concerned about brain bleed.
Of course, like in this video, a baby aspirin a day for me is recommended by my cardiologist both current and former in my previous hometown.

I think this is very informative

 

[Al]

I have always ate different from the other male members of my family and I honestly feel that is the reason I have not needed intervention, even though I have plaque all over the place. I have the gene with high Lipo A.

I think Statin is the only thing you need to know.
They should put it in drinking water. My BIL is a rare person in his family who has not succumbed to heart disease. He eats terrible has a big gut but has been taking a Statin for 40+ years. He is 89. Another guy I know was on a statin bc his legs ached in the morning. He quit and a couple years he died of a massive heart attack at the age of 60.

If you do genealogy, you will see Males usually did not reach 80. Yes many did die of flu but if the flu did not get them heart attacks did.

I know many macho men are against statins..all I can say is "good luck"

 

[Cropduster172]

Just back from a grand tour of our local Cardiac Trauma hospital's catheterization lab, and got two new stents as souvenirs. Had a strange discomfort feeling in my middle chest 2 nights ago, no pain, no pressure, no shortness of breath, just strange. Woke the wife up and off the ER we went. With a 5 vessel bypass graft almost 11 years ago, I wasn't taking any chances. Lots of tests, but the one that made the cardiologist on duty take notice was my elevated troponin level. Troponin is a protein in the heart muscle that when the heart is stressed, can "leak out" and be detected. It's a prime indicator for heart muscle damage or an impending/occuring myocardial infarction (heart attack). A cardiac cath was ordered since I hadn't had one when all of my blockages were discovered and subsequent bypass surgery performed.

So, into the lab and onto the table I went. Prepped areas for arterial access and gave me a "seditive" to make me comfortable. Well, unlike my first one, when I was sedated pretty heavily, and couldn't hear anything, much less feel anything, this time I could hear, see, and FEEL what was going on. There must have been something onboard though, because it wasn't painful. But I could feel the sensation of the probe wires traveling in my brachial artery and when they placed the stents, could feel pressure as the vessel "stretched" when the balloon was inflated. I commented this all to the cardiologist afterward in recovery and he said its preferable to have a patient in a semi awake state when the procedure is performed. I agreed, but asked why I felt so much. His reply was that everyone has a different level of response and the medication may not completely mask all sensations. It was pretty strange, to say the least, that I was so aware. Hope to never experience it again.

Surgery was successful and both locations of occlusion were opened 100%. Doc said that one of the graft veins had diseased and collected plaque at the junction with the existing artery. 3 new medications to add to my daily intake, woohoo. Anyone else have a catheterization and feel anything like this?

Get better and take it easy/