InMyImage
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It is actually interesting to hear how many people have heart attacks without knowing it. Because of the seizure meds I have been on since I was 20, I have liver issues. Probably 5 years ago, I was in bed at about 2 AM and let my wife know that for a while I had been having a lot of pain in my chest and left arm so we decided to go the ER. They ran all their tests and nothing. Of course the next step was the gas diagnosis and embarrasingly taking some medicine for that, but an hour later no relief so they did a scan of my liver and discovered that it was inflamed and diagnosed me with the early stages of liver cirrhosisi was pretty much able bodied. i had a heart attack in 2005. only i didn't know it was a heart attack. i waited the weekend and even worked for for a day and half, after that. by the time a co-worker came and dragged me to the hospital, my valve was 99.9% blocked and the entire inside of my left ventricle is dead. they did angioplasty and put a stent in. i left the hospital AMA, the next morning and returned to work 5 days later. no meds, no nothing.
by 2010 i was back in again. but this time i knew what it was, though it took the staff a few days to figure it out. i was put on meds then, but continued to work. last year they put 2 more stents in. on top of that, i have arrhythmia and hardening of the arteries. my heart function is 20-25%.
then there's the fibromyalgia! lol!
i'm a tough sumbitch, but those days may be over soon.
