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Offline Arlo

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Heart Cath Procedure
« on: April 23, 2018, 10:50:44 AM »
Got one coming on Wednesday. Any of you guys have one? I'm assured it's all routine and the risks are minimal. Kelly's kinda worried. Her mom died from complications during one a couple years ago. Been watching YouTube vids:

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Re: Heart Cath Procedure
« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2018, 11:23:45 AM »
What exact procedure?  I've had a heart cath done where they inject dye to check for blockages, I didn't have any issues.  I've also had one where they put a probe in the heart to stimulate trying to induce ventricular fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia, they were unable to induce any rhythm issues.

Both procedures were reasonable easy.  I'm not big on needle sticks so having someone putting a catheter into the femoral vein wasn't great but tolerable.  For the second procedure I told the doc I wasn't great with needles to he gave me a bit of propofol before starting...easy peasy! :)

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Re: Heart Cath Procedure
« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2018, 11:40:01 AM »
Checking for blockages. I had a buddy go in for just that but they also put in stints when they saw what was there (and twice more since). All those delicious steaks and I never once considered that the cows were plotting revenge.

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Re: Heart Cath Procedure
« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2018, 12:55:58 PM »
I got dyed on the last day of 1993 after a minor 'cardiac event' and they found a cardiac bridge but the procedure went OK. They talked about stents but I have not had any issues with it since and am stent-free.
My dad had one too and the site where they went in, around the groin, leaked a little and his leg got swollen but you should be able to notice something like that fast if your aware.
Wouldn't sweat it as long as the facility is competent.

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Re: Heart Cath Procedure
« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2018, 01:12:48 PM »
Grain fed beef has an imbalance of omega-3 to omega-6 fatty acid. Because of the grain the meat is too high in omega-6 which causes conditions that increase heart disease outcomes. Add to that sugar which your body sees anything made from wheat as sugar along with alcohol, and you are eating your self to death. Grass fed beef has the correct balance of 3 to 6. Many vegetable oils are saturated with 6 though olive and avocado oil are saturated with 3. I was in ICU in 2014 to learn about this the hard way.

I've had to change my diet to vegetables and pork\chicken\fish\range fed beef or no beef. I eat some super market beef now, and my numbers for the next week or two go to heck and freak my doctor. Same if I drink some wine or indulge with bread or pasta. Once you train your body to like those things for your whole life, you can never untrain the reactions from your body that will kill you after you change your diet away from them. And you are always slightly unsatisfied when you stop eating wheat products no matter how much veggies and protein you stuff yourself with to try and turn off your appetite.

What has created our heart problems is being addicted to certain kinds of food over our life times. Once you stop eating them, it's easy about 30 days in to see your body reacting to smells and images like a drug junky to heroin. I have to eat a sugar substitute called stevia to fool my brain becasue I get sugar cravings and I use dry roasted peanuts to take the place of my wheat cravings. Once you stop eating sugar and wheat products, you loose weight and it clears up acid reflex. Your BP and cholesterol tend to comedown too, it may also be becasue I eat oatmeal with almonds every morning now. Oatmeal reduces cholesterol and almonds effect BP.
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Re: Heart Cath Procedure
« Reply #5 on: April 23, 2018, 01:13:07 PM »
Thanks, guys. University Medical Center in Lubbock is top notch and my doc got 4 stars on Yelp. (J/K that last part).

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Re: Heart Cath Procedure
« Reply #6 on: April 23, 2018, 01:17:00 PM »
That's a lot of good advice, Bustr. Thanks. Growing old sucks but the alternative is worse.  :salute

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Re: Heart Cath Procedure
« Reply #7 on: April 23, 2018, 01:58:42 PM »
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Thanks, guys. University Medical Center in Lubbock is top notch and my doc got 4 stars on Yelp. (J/K that last part).

Good to hear Arlo.

Is this the type of test where they go in through the artery down in your leg? If so, just be careful with the plug they insert there afterwards.  If not, well, not a worry, and it's not really a worry anyway, just keep a close eye on it like they'll tell you.

Post after it's over, best of luck.

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Re: Heart Cath Procedure
« Reply #8 on: April 23, 2018, 02:04:40 PM »
Plug?  :confused: :bolt:

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Re: Heart Cath Procedure
« Reply #9 on: April 23, 2018, 02:42:59 PM »
I'm sure you will do just fine Arlo. 

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Re: Heart Cath Procedure
« Reply #10 on: April 23, 2018, 03:03:29 PM »
Thanks, One-eye. I'll keep a mole-hill perspective.  :)

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Re: Heart Cath Procedure
« Reply #11 on: April 23, 2018, 03:18:42 PM »
I got a stent in my right coronary artery back in about 1998.  They knocked me silly with liquid valium but not so much that I went out.  I remember during the procedure seeing a big x-ray on the wall of my arteries and the doctors were working on me with a big sheet hanging between my upper body and them.  At one point they asked me to cough.  That's why they don't completely knock you out but you don't care.

Afterward they put a dissolvable plug in the hole they make near your shaved groin and you have to lay on your back for 12-24 hours with a weight on the plug until it cauterizes. During that time a nurse came in and wanted me to pee in a bottle.  I told her that wasn't going to work with her standing over me so she left for a while.  That didn't help.  I still couldn't pee so when she came back she stuck a catheter up my noodle.  I was begging her to stop.  It was the most pain I've ever experienced.

A week or two later my then wife and I were out for a walk in the nature preserve near our home.  We got off the trails and got lost.  After a couple of hours my leg would start to numb up and I'd have to stop to get the blood flowing again.  The plug was evidently still there and restricting blood flow.  Thank God we found our way out without having to back-track before the winter sun set.

Other than the catheter and the walk it was easy.  Good luck.


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Re: Heart Cath Procedure
« Reply #12 on: April 23, 2018, 04:19:28 PM »
I have had 2.  Standard procedure now.  It is cool to watch it all on the screen and if they need to put a stent in they will do it there and then.  Synthetic plugs now and out of hospital back home before you know it. You will be fine.

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Re: Heart Cath Procedure
« Reply #13 on: April 23, 2018, 09:29:36 PM »
Good luck man, sending positive quantum waves! 


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Re: Heart Cath Procedure
« Reply #14 on: April 23, 2018, 10:59:06 PM »
Good luck Arlo, you'll be ok.  New technology is always making procedures like those better.
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