Am interested in hearing from anyone having symptoms of severy calf
pain, manifesting itself immediately after coronary stent procedure.
Similar symptoms, possible causes, remedies, please post info.

"Heart Convulsions", that's how I think of them.
I'M-SORRY-THIS-IS-SO-LONG. I don't know how else to ask the question.
I've had them all my life, which has been 59 years, so far. Although
they do not cause me problems themselves, I believe that whatever

Hi
I am a healthy 24 year old female at normal weight.  About two month ago, I
had a physical and the doctor heard abnormal noises in my pulse.  She had me
do an EKG and it showed regular rogue pulses.  She had me go to a

How does hypertension cause cause swelling or edema?
Thanks,
Tom

I read all kinds of articles on what blood pressure should be.  What I
don't see is how it should be taken.
When they talk about normal blood pressure, is that "resting" blood
pressure?  If so, then what does "resting" mean?  I know that mine

I just got home yesterday after having open heart surgery. This is my first
week home. I am ambulatory and can walk without a cane. My wife, tho is
being a bit on the harried side as she won't let me do anything. I walked
the dog this morning and according to her, I walked too ...

First off I should admit that I'm prone to hypochondriasis.  What
doesn't help me at all is that I find medical/physiological texts
fascinating to read.  So I'm half-a.s educated along with paranoid. :-p
Here's my series of questions:

Hi  iam 32 yrs old i have asthma, lately i have been getting pain in between
my shoulder blades and occasional chest pain, tightness in shoulders.  pain
in ribs also, sometimes like aburning feeling.
I am wondering if this is heart related. i do sometimes feel week in my left

Perhaps being a heavy drinker can trigger heart palpitations.
http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=HEARTBOOZE-09-12-05
This is a Scripps Howard Story recently published.
Paul

I am 61 years old and had an angiogram recently.  The result was that
my 9 year old stents were working well (in the LAD) BUT I had
developed a 50% blockage in my Right Coranary Artery (RCA).  I beleive
this artery feeds the lungs, and my lungs are allready compromised by

My mother's cardiologist prescribed her two medications to control a
somewhat high blood pressure ( it varies a lot but her highest is 15/9
while standing up) :in the morning a combination of losartan 100mg and
hidroclorothiazide 25 mg and at night amlodipine 5 mg . The problem is

First I want to thank everyone for all your support I have received.
Now for some good news, so far I've had my four stents in for three
months and "knock on wood" everything is going well. I'm working out
Monday-Friday for an hour of heavy cardio (this includes cardiac rehab

For the past few weeks i've had random bouts of nausea,its always worse when I wake up in
the middle of the night and morning, I went to the doctor and he thinks I have an Ulcer ,Since
I started feeling like this I also experiance a rapid heartbeat whenever I wake up after ...

http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.13
71/journal.pmed.0020124
Large article!  See above for graphs and the Corollaries.
Here is  an example

I used this group a lot but was put off by the doctor who constantly
had flame wars with other posters. I am referring to the gentleman with
the Chinese name. Has he gone away???