How are you and your husband doing?...
Do you have an addictive personality? Not everyone becomes addicted to everything addictive. I can't believe she suggested Zoloft I take it she isn't a psychiatrist. I've seen Zoloft do more harm...
You don't have to be on anti-depressants. A fast-ish acting short term anxiety medication can help when you need it. I took .25 mg xanax for the first month I was thought to have a aortic aneurysm. I...
Are you female? There is physical therapy and one could use a pessary. I had uterine prolapse, rectocele and my bladder was pulled out of place also. The pessary helped my rectocele a lot. I ended up...
Hello Margie~ That is good news. There is supposed to be some fluid in the pericardial cavity. Does it say there is a lot or is there any other description about the fluid? Tracker...
Have you called the GP yet for something to take the edge off so he can sleep? When is his appointment with the cardiologist? She shouldn't have said anything unless it was to a specific question you...
The area of concern was/is ascending aorta....
Shock, tell me about. the admitted me through the ER because of my prior cardiac history (peripartum cardiomyopathy and SVT) I had an ablation and the heart returned to normal, but since I was...
According to the radiologist from 2009 he measured it at 4.0 on one view of a 64 slice CT. (CT was done in ER after going to hospital with chest pain, was GERD) I did research about CT scan and...
I got a script from my GP for anxiety following being told I had a aortic aneurysm. You could ask to speak to the nurse at the cardiology office or go to your family doctor. Explain the situation...
I went an picked up my results from the MRA I had done. No Evidence of dissection or aneurysm. The maxium ascending aorta is 3.6 cm at the pulmonary artery. Subclavian veins appear patent bilaterally...
They can stay the same :smilewinkgrin: If I compare my echos from 97,01 and 09 and even the CT result from 09 I've been the same within millimeters for 12 years....
I thought about calling the radiology office yesterday just to see if the radiologist read it yet. Cause at least if he read and didn't call me then it isn't a drastic change. I may call Monday....
Well I have the CD of my MRA today. Pretty cool to see inside your own body like that. There aren't any computer generated sizing of anything :shakehead: so I now I wait till June :sad: Next week...
Mine was dx in Dec 09 and I have my follow up scan tomorrow. I'll tell you when I find out. Good luck....
Thank you :smile:...
Well I finally got my cath report from 1997 hoping that it would have had AO measurements but alas it did not. Just O2 levels in AO. Why wouldn't the doctors from before have said something about the...
I was officially diagnosed 12/5/09 BUT I had other echocardiograms stemming from another cardiac event in 97 and the echo from 97 & 09 are the same the one in 2001 had larger sizes. I am still...
Hello :smilewinkgrin: In Dec. 09 I had a bad case of GERD, something I had been having since having surgery to remove an ovary & cyst in Nov. Only I didn't know it was GERD. So I went to the ER. All...