Had a heart attack yesterday, other than that happy new year

zaza - I know, if you don't have your health, you at least have hope to get better. Give me something, anything, but don't tell me I got nothing - lol.
 
Dude please take your doctor's advice in addition to the diet change. The diet alone is not going to fix the problem, that is a long term solution that will have little effect on your current heart condition.
 
A belated "glad you're OK" from deepfocus. You're a good guy and answered a couple tech questions for me a few weeks ago.
 
Holy effing crap. I'm glad you're ok.....


I just quit smoking, and thus said hello to 15-25 pounds. And it reminds me of when I was 15, 5'7" and 250lbs.

I know that feeling of being totally unhealthy. Through heaps of hard work I got down to 165-175lbs. (I alo grew to 6' tall.) But now I'm pushing the 190-200 mark again. I had kept the weight off for about a good 9 years. But like you rakesh, food is my ultimate pleasure and comfort. So hard to change what you love to eat....
 
Rakesh Jacob said:
Unfortunately I'm not out of the woods yet. I'm actually deep in the woods in a small clearing trying to regroup. Statistically I am at great risk for another heart attack that would be much bigger and drop me dead! My docs really wanted to do a cardiac cath and get in there and do some angioplasty and stenting if I needed it; trust me they would have found places where I needed it. I refused and pissed of my cardiologist, attending physician and most of the nurses in the ICU. Honestly that path is not one I want to walk down. I don't want invasive procedures, they just lead to more and more invassive interventions. They keep you alive just long enough to go back to the hospital later.
Rakesh
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let me be blunt. you need to get that cardiac catheterization. the cardiologist needs to perform this procedure to get an accurate reading of your heart and coronary arteries. they were pissed because they can't really diagnose the severtity of the problem and the condition of your arteries without it. seriously, please get it done.
 
You probably need what the doctor prescribed. A healthy lifestyle is good for recovery and for long term results but existing damage needs to be examined and taken care of. The procedure is nothing special, just glorified plumbing performed by highly trained doctors. Seriously.
 
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Hey man, I like your work, and I like your voice on the forum.

If you were shooting a film, would you start filming without knowing what your most important location looked like?
If you were editing, would you start without knowing the quality and range of your footage?
These are criteria you need to know to create the best film you can.

And while whole food is a nice piece of the puzzle (maybe the lens of your health?), you need to let your doctors (the directors) into your heart (the MAIN location) to see WTF it looks like!

Maybe they'll work with your material, maybe they'll do some rewrites.
But let them look, and if you don't agree with their review, take your films to another cardio and see what he says.

But don't deny yourself the knowledge, and the opportunity to fix some bad material with a minimally invasive procedure.

(The bad film metaphors will now officially end).

Plus, if they scope you, you can use it in your next film!

To your (new) health, Salud, स्वास्थ्य
 
Man I am glad you are okay. Like some others have already said, and I know you probably don't want to hear it again, but get back to the doctors and do those tests. You may be surprised and get good news and if you if you don't it might make your recovery much faster.
 
let me be blunt. you need to get that cardiac catheterization. the cardiologist needs to perform this procedure to get an accurate reading of your heart and coronary arteries. they were pissed because they can't really diagnose the severtity of the problem and the condition of your arteries without it. seriously, please get it done.
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Not exactly true. Invasive procedures like 'cardiac cath' are performed if the non-invasive preliminary test(such as EKG (electrocardiogram) and ECHO (echocardiogram)) results indicate presence of coronary artery disease.
Also Rakesh is diabetic, therefore susceptible to kidney damage during operation. There are also associated dangers like allergic reaction to the dye used, and some infections.

A healthy lifestyle is good for recovery and for long term results but existing damage needs to be examined and taken care of.
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This statement is true, however he also said:

technically now that my blood pressure is under control, my blood glucose is almost under control and
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which means that most probably there is no immediate danger of sudden heart attack. By all means if you are having extremely high BP you should use medication to lower it & seek further diagnosis.
 
Hey Rake. I don't know you. I've seen you on the boards a few times. Don't know what to say really.

Do the best you can, that's all you can do. Sometimes it's a wakeup call. I look at it as a second chance. Sounds like you already got it together anyways.
 
I honestly and truely appreciate the advice and concern and getting a cardiac cath is the same advice I would give under most circumstances. But after doing the research on how to reverse coranary artery disease and cardiovascular disease and also on the politics and economics of the cardiac "care" business model in our country, there is no way I want to walk down a medically/mechanically intervening path. If the overwhelming evidence wasn't there that a plant based diet and exercise was the ONLY way to permenantly stop and then ALSO REVERSE my condition I wouldn't do it.
I had 5 12 lead EKGs, all normal. I had a treadmill stress test 4 days after and I got my heart rate up to 170 and held it for 30 secs. Afterwards my BP and HR came down to normal in a couple minutes and I had no angina during or after the test. The nuclear scans obviously showed the ischemic part of my heart but my cardiac enzimes were allready positive for a myocardial infarct so this was an expected result. Also my cholestorol was 192, not good but certainly not bad. My condition was percipitated by uncontrolled blood sugar and hypertension. BTW they are now undercontrol, my BP remains in the 120/70 range and my Blood Glucose was actually down to 79 between meals yesterday!
I totaly understand my doctors' concern and in their shoes would make the same recommendations. Not only legally but morally they are obligated to do what they believe is best. Western medicine is reactionary and short term, it doesn't deal with causes, it deals with symptoms and it does it allopathically and mechanically because it's easy, profitable and in thier control. They are not being malicious or negligent, this is how they were trained, what they understand and unfortunately what they believe in. But the simple fact is if it be really good news or really bad news, I'm gonna treat it the same way that I am now. And if there is really bad news (fairly unlikely given the evidence), I don't want to think about it. I'm focused on getting better and I am. Me and my wife are eating right finally, she is hitting the gym, I'll be doing the same once my strenght gets back up. Right now I'm walking as much as I can. My body is still weak from the experience but since the diet change, my energy is through the freaking roof. I haven't felt this good yet this millenium, and it hasn't even been a week since I had my heart attack. :)
if I didn't believe that I was capable of this change, then yes, invasive medical intervention would be my best course of action. But this change is something I have been seeking for several years now and have been surrounded by friends and family members who have succesfully made these changes when nothing else worked. My dad is a minister of a church of about 400 people and the people he sends to Lifestyle Centers turn thier conditions around in a matter of weeks. An associate pastor in the same confrence as him needed a qaudruple bypass and could barely walk. He jogs now!
I have wanted this change since well before my heart attack, but had no compelling reason to commit. Now I do. My new mantra: Thank God for my heart attack!
 
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