Heart Attacks, Angioplasties, and Stents, Oh My!

What role do genetics, diet, exercise and cholesterol play in preventing and treating diseases of the heart? Learn about advances in the prevention and treatment of heart disease, coronary artery disease and heart attacks, abnormal rhythms such as atrial fibrillation, cardiac arrest, the failing heart, and diseases of the heart valves. In this program, Dr. Krishan Soni discusses interventions such as angioplasties and stents to treat heart attacks. Recorded on 11/29/2022. [2/2023] [Show ID: 38484]

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[ladyadarathecrone]

I had a major heart attack in 2016, I was 49. I was the person that never, really, got sick. Then out of nowhere I felt like I was having heartburn then my jaw started aching really bad, it got really hard to breath and the nausea set in. I never went numb anywhere, just a really bad jaw ache. Get to the hospital and was there about 10 minutes and I flatlined. I had a blood clot form in my artery and caused the artery to burst with it. I was rushed to a heart hospital in OKC and a stent placed in my heart. It was a very scary time. It is amazing how far our technology has come. They went through my wrist to place the stent and it still amazes me how they do this. The healing time is cut to almost none as to where having your ribs broken to access the heart was a very painful and long recovery. Thank you to the wonderful minds of the heart physicians.

[polizeiwegvonhier]

Received a stent this month at age 54. What a great presentation. Thank you for sharing.

[Danisandiego]

Thank you so much for this presentation. Very useful information and the Q&A was also helpful. Cheers!

[steveh]

Thank you. An outstanding, clearly communicated presentation.

[andrewheredia]

Thank You Doctors, The best in Layman’s Terms Explanation of The Heart Subject. That I Have Discovered Personally!!👍🇺🇸

[ellocodos]

Excellent comprehensive presentation. Thanks a ton!

[Masechka]

So, basically women with anxiety will forever be guessing if they are having a heart attack or an anxiety attack. Awesome.

[spirittracks]

Sept 2023
I have been having angina for the past two months. Had an ECG with ST depression. Had a stress test that came out positive. I had this in the past but the doctor said there were changes again. I'm being sent to have an angiogram again. Possible stent. I don't understand why I need an angiogram if I didn't have a heart attack or ST Elevation. Having ST Depression does this mean a heart attack too? Do I have coronary disease? I don't know. This will be my second angiogram in the last 5 years. I'm frustrated when I'm sent home from the hospital because I didn't have a heart attack. But there are issues with the heart. Why go then for angina in the future?

[randomthings]

I had a heart attack about a year ago. The care and the triple bypass I received at the cardiac wing of the Sudbury Ontario hospital was outstanding.

With meds and an exercise protocol at the gym has been very well thought out and I am doing well. But I tire easily, can't do more than half the lawn, it's pretty big, so I do the half one day and the other half the next or third day. I was improving on that till the snow fell and stayed.

Same with shoveling snow. No big deal. But they told me I had degenerative heart disease. Sounds kind of scary. Will now do some research on that. Bu there's more to my story.

I started with a new doctor in the summer of 2000. His routine is to have your BP checked at each visit. First visit I present with 140/90. So he prescribes Metoprolol. My blood pressure doesn't change after 2 weeks. I tell him, he says, keep taking it, it'll kick in. It didn't.

What DID kick in was an erratic heart beat. Lasted a few hours. one a week and getting stronger, , STRONG beats as if my heart was going to explode, , , and more erratic. I go to emerge. They hook me up, diagnose Atrial Fibrillation, they give something with the intravenous line, my heart settles down and I'm discharged. That's it. No, consult your doctor about this, see a cardiologist etc. just let me go.

But I go to see my doctor after 6 weeks of this, after going to emerge 5 times and he dismisses my feeling that the Metoprolol had anything to do with it.

Another visit to emerge and I see him the next day without an appointment. He gets exasperated and grabs his big drug book, looks and finds, under rare, but possible side effects, ARRHYTHMIA. He looks at me, smiles, shoves the book towards me and walks out the door.

This story lasts for 3 plus years but of course I stopped the Metoprolol. The AF went away. But as I had a BP machine, I noted that my BP was getting even higher. So after being free of AF for several weeks, I took ONE Met pill and within 2 seconds I had an episode like no other. I called 911 and was promptly hooked up, as I had been for many months, many times.

But this time, whatever they do, wasn't working. The doctor said, "give him another hit" she did but it just got worse. I was told that the AF was spilling into other chambers of my heart. I was also asked, if I felt any pain. To their amazement, I didn't.

However, I offered them the observation that an Ativan sometimes would abort an attack. So they gave me 2 and within a minute or so, the pounding stopped. Maybe the Adrenalin was contributing to the AF. It's a scary thing to be experiencing.

Since taking that ONE pill, after a time of avoiding it, the AF came back with a vengeance, despite not ever taking any Metoprolol, ever again.

I was offered a pacemaker, no thanks., I was offered drugs, no thanks because that doctor was unaware that there are two kinds of AF, one vagally mediated and one adrenergically mediated. Sometimes both factors are in play. But you have to know which is dominant before you know what drugs to try.

So, I was on my own. This was over 20 years ago, I had a new computer and there was the Internet. So I began my research. I learned a lot about the heart and I also learned that medicine hasn't got any permanent solutions, let alone an actual CURE, , just treatments.

As I went from website to website, I found that the public comments sections were very informative. People who, like me, were trying to find a solution.

I came across a piece written by an electrical engineer who had some higher learning of chemistry. He cured his AF. As I read, one thing popped up. Deficiency in minerals, Notably, magnesium and potassium.

Magnesium is essential for some 300 biochemical processes in the body. Most people are mineral deficient, including magnesium.

Also, magnesium is essential for muscle contraction and nerve conduction. There it was. The AV node is the biological microchip that times the various chambers of the heart to contract and relax. Nerve conduction.

And of course, the muscle is the most stressed and continuously functioning muscle of all the muscles. Every single second of your day and your heart works, HARD.

If you cut a piece of heart tissue from a living heart, that piece would contract at some 70 beats per minute, until all the cells died. Each cell has this timing function.

So if you're in a coma, this is what keeps you alive.

But when you need lots of blood flow to your muscles, fight or flight, the adrenaline kicks in to raise your heart rate to do that job.

When the danger is over, your vagal nervous system kicks in to lower your heart rate.

Three control mechanisms that control your heart's function. HOWEVER, when you take a drug like Metoprolol, it's a beta-blocker and this drug lowers your heart rate, even when you need a higher rate such as fight or flight. No more jogging for you, me lad.

So your heart has been given a BRAKE, as in a car's brakes. Imagine if the brakes on your car were dragging. You'd kill your gas mileage, STRESS and wear out your engine, and need a brake job and tire change far more often than otherwise.

The same thing happens with a pacemaker. I'm sure they have their place to save a failing heart but wait, maybe that heart has a drug hurting it? A drug meant for something else? Maybe that heart really isn't getting enough magnesium?

I can't help but wonder if it's not AF that's killing people prematurely, but the DRUGS, or the pacemakers?

I titrated 250 mg of a multiple magnesium product, in stages, over the span of a number of weeks. By the 3rd week, my AF attacks slowed and were less severe. By the 8th week, they were gone. But too much can give you loose stool. So I backed off to 1500 mg a day in divided doses and that worked perfectly.

All this took place some 23 years ago and since then, I haven't had a single episode of AF.

Just think, a drug GAVE me a disease, and a NUTRIENT cured it. Yes, nutrients can cure disease, like scurvy and vitamin C, , , , and rickets and vitamin D3.

The interesting thing is, since I cured my AF, I haven't had a single cold, or flu or even the sniffles. BONUS.