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  • About Me

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    benwood32

    Male, 27
    Blacksburg, VA, USA
    Member since December 4, 2007

    • About Me

      Where to start...i've known about my high cholesterol level since i was a wee lad, say the age of 9 or 10. My father and older brothers all have it as well but i thought that my youth and good excercise and weight would keep me out of harms way, even after my 31 year old brother had a heart attack. That is until two months ago when it was discovered that i had 90 % blockage in my Left Anteriour Discending Artery. Two cardiac catheters and a coronary bypass later and i'm still having serious angina on a nightly basis. I'm told that with medication and time i will get back to a normal life, but to be honest its hard to see. I'm hoping all of this will help...

      Where to start...i've known about my high cholesterol level since i was a wee lad, say the age of 9 or 10. My father and older brothers all have it as well but i thought that my youth and good excercise and weight would keep me out of harms way, even after my 31 year old brother had a heart attack. That is until two months ago when it was discovered that i had 90 % blockage in my Left Anteriour Discending Artery. Two cardiac catheters and a coronary bypass later and i'm still having serious angina

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    • Journal Entry for December 6, 2007

      Mood December 6, 2007 9:10pm

      well,

      last night wasn't all that much better.  i'm not sure if there's some medication i'm taking or what it might be but i am …

    • Journal Entry for December 5, 2007

      Mood December 5, 2007 8:17pm

      Wednesday 5, 2007

      Last night was a little better.  I took two pills of the pain medication i was given after my surgery and propped myself up …

    • Journal Entry for December 4, 2007

      Mood December 4, 2007 2:31pm

      Tuesday, Dec. 4

      I woke up this morning at about five with horrible pain in my chest.  worst yet since my last stay in the hospital which ended …

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      From dinz October 8, 2008

      yo ben, how ya feeling?

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      From dinz May 8, 2008

      hey ben, u out there?

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      From dinz April 2, 2008

      ben, u out there

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      From dinz February 16, 2008

      hi, how ya doing ben??

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      From TLCDaisy January 31, 2008

      Don't Forget to Wear RED for Women tomorrow, Feb 1st...Kick-Off of Heart Disease Awareness Month! Support the Women in your Life!

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    Goal End Date is May 9, 08 563 days ago.
  • Support Groups

    • Close Coronary Heart Disease

      Treatments

      Bypass Surgery (Coronary) Working / Worked
      Had my bypass six weeks ago. everything was recovering fine until about a week ago when i get severe angine while walking. turns out my LAD is littered with plaque and will take longer than i thought to recover.
      Bypass Surgery (Coronary) Too Soon to Tell
      Had my bypass six weeks ago. everything was recovering fine until about a week ago when i get severe angine while walking. turns out my LAD is littered with plaque and will take longer than i thought to recover.
      Aspirin Working / Worked
      Dietary Modification Working / Worked
      just after i discovered my love for crab cakes!!
      Imdur Working / Worked
      not necessarily imdur but a different type of nitrate. i'm thinking its working pretty well. i take it in the morning and i have no pain till the evening so i hope thats what is doing it.
      Plavix Too Soon to Tell
      no complaints yet. just don't cut yourself shaving!
    • Close Angina

      Treatments

      Imdur Working / Worked
      Bypass Surgery (Coronary) Working / Worked
    • Open High Cholesterol

      Treatments

      Aspirin Working / Worked
      Avoid Certain Foods / Chemicals Working / Worked
      Crestor Working / Worked
      Fish Oil Working / Worked
      Niaspan Working / Worked
      Physical Exercise Working / Worked
      Red Wine Working / Worked
      Bypass Surgery (Coronary) Working / Worked
      Niaspan Working / Worked
      i've been told of the "flushing" but have yet to really experience any real pain because of it(except for one time in the hospital when they upped my dosage from 200 mg to 500 mg and didn't give me aspirin with it....my skin felt like it was on fire)
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