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Dh had a heart attack

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Howmanysleepsnow · 23/09/2024 01:09

Hes ok. He’s in hospital. He’s only 56. Can someone tell me it’ll be okay please?

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Anonymousehole · 25/09/2024 20:08

I had one last year at 47. I have never smoked, always eaten very carefully, very slim, ran several times a week, did weights and walked dogs three times a day every day. Came out of the blue and was one that (allegedly) only 12% of people survive. A swift blue light trip, a stent and a lot of pills later and I’m back to normal. I started running a week or so after my HA but I was terrified! The psychological side takes longer to recover from I think. I still can’t get my head around why it happened to me, but the GP just said it was a freak one in a million event.

He will be fine!

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Howmanysleepsnow · 26/09/2024 00:29

Would it be terrible of me to ask about sex? DH mentioned it when listing questions for his consultant, and it terrifies me!

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Sadness1234 · 26/09/2024 00:34

I had a heart attack 4 years ago at 45. I have 3 stents now. I’m ok. I met a new man a year later. Sex was great.

Anonymousehole · 26/09/2024 07:40

My consultant said the most important thing to remember is that the heart is a muscle and needs to work hard so not to wrap myself up in cotton wool. I took it gently for the first week but then was back to doing all the things I did before.

sashh · 26/09/2024 08:39

Musicaltheatremum · 24/09/2024 07:57

I graduated as a doctor in 1986. In those days you had a heart attack, went to CCU if you were under 65 and after 7 days went home. If you'd had a big one often a lot of heart muscle was damaged and I vividly recall these patients coming back in several times with heart failure so bad sometimes they'd be foaming at the mouth before we got things under control they'd then be very disabled with a failing heart.

Then came the clot busters just before I moved into general practice and they changed the whole outcome for people and now the paramedics can do ECGs send them to the cardiac team and have these patients who have these big STEMIs on the operating table having their stents within an hour depends on location obviously
Acute heart failure is much less common and they go on to lead a good life.

I had a patient who had an out of hospital arrest and did very well. He had a huge blockage in a main artery which they fixed and the residual heart damage was minimal. Poor chap was terrified to do anything ... understandably!

I spent a lot of time over several visits explaining how he was in much better shape than he had been before as his arteries now looked nearly normal with no blockages so his risk of something happening was minimal.

OP sorry that was a ramble but more to show how treatment has changed and now you know what your coronary arteries look like you will have every chance of keeping things under control and being even more healthy than you were. Hope you get well soon.

That's about the time I qualified as a 'cardiac tech' as we were then known. Clot busters were a game changer. I had learned how to identify different stages of an MI (heart attack) and suddenly there weren't different stages.

I was at a large teaching hospital when a trial of stent vs CABG (bypass operation) were actually stopped because it was clear stents were working so well.

Anyway the youngest patient with a heart attack we had was 30 and played sport for the RAF, so fit and healthy.

Care is so much better these days, he is in the right place.

redhatpurplehair · 26/09/2024 08:58

He should be fine. My DH had his first at 39, then another at 53 when the first stent failed.

He is fine now, in his 60s. His dad died at 53 so family history in his case.

MaterMetella · 26/09/2024 09:33

Just to add to the stories - my fit, slim, non-smoking, no family history husband has a heart attack in January aged 49. He was training for his third marathon at the time and has run 15 miles earlier in the day.

We were so shocked when the Doctor confirmed our was a heart attack (he had tightness and pressure - not really pain - and we went to hospital purely - we thought- to be cautious.). Even the triage nurse said he thought he was fine from initial obs but ' let's do an ECG to be on the safe side'. We kind of let out a shocked 'laugh' when the doctor confirmed he was having a heart attack.

Amazing how many stories are like this.

My husband is fine; has discovered he is diabetic and takes a lot of meds but back to completely normal life.

user1471556818 · 26/09/2024 09:44

Yes he is likely to recover well. You'll get given some lifestyle advice which is so worth doing .my dad had heart attack aged 54 he's now 84 .Stopped smoking and is active ..
Wishing him and you all the best

Greybeardy · 26/09/2024 09:59

A 56yr old on their 3rd heart attack is a slightly different and more complex scenario to most of the PPs’. The best people who’ll be able to advise you are the medical team who have access to all the test results so far. Hope the transfer goes/went well.

BeyondMyWits · 26/09/2024 11:07

Howmanysleepsnow · 26/09/2024 00:29

Would it be terrible of me to ask about sex? DH mentioned it when listing questions for his consultant, and it terrifies me!

It would not be terrible at all. It was a question asked by a few on the rehab course, and it really varies depending on how much damage the heart attack has done etc. Some of the medications can affect erection strength for men, or libido for either sex too.

Fear cannot just be discounted... really kills the mood.

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