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Heart-Stent Medicine

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Now that I have a heart stent, I will have to take medicine for the rest of my life and will also have to visit a cardiologist for the rest of my life, almost like a car needing a tune-up, the doctor will have to see how your hardware is holding up.  https://www.cardiovascular.abbott/us/en/hcp/products/percutaneous-coronary-intervention/xience-sierra-coronary-stent-system.html In the week following a percutaneous coronary intervention, having a stent placed into the Left Descending Coronary artery of my heart, I visited the doctor for a follow-up appointment.  The visit included a blood and urine analysis, so I didn't take the medicine for that morning, since I am used to fasting, consuming only water before any kind of blood or urine test.  When I told my doctor that I did that, he bounced out of his chair, "You have to take your medicine!"  He thought that I was under the impression that medicine was too much hassle and decided not to take it.  I kind o...
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The Angioplast and Food

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If you have a stent in your heart, I am going to refer to you as an Angioplast.  It isn't a real word, but there is no succinct word to describe this condition, so this is easiest, and fun as well.  I know that heart attacks, medicasial infarction, and stents are not a joke, but you're an Angioplast, like it or not, and life still has a lot of enjoyment for you. Now that you have a heart condition you will have to avoid booze, fatty foods, and salty foods.  We can't do anything about our genetics, but there is a lot that must be done.   We have to avoid fatty food to keep LDL levels down.  LDL is most often called the bad fat, usually in quotation marks. LDL, Low-Density Lipoproteins, are the same cholesterol as HDL, High-Density Lipoproteins.  THe only difference is the case that surrounds the cholesterol.  The simple explanation is that LDL leaves cholesterol behind as the travel, which clogs arteries.           ...
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Angina

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In the winter, I first noticed pain in my chest when pushing myself on steeper runs while skiing.  I originally thought it was from the terrible air quality, and the pain was originating from my lungs.  Once Covid19 had run though and slowed or stopped all of the factories in the area, the air quality was fantastic. In the spring, I went out camping in a remote spot in a valley where I knew I wouldn't come across any other campers, but still get my two young boys out into nature.  Climbing out of the valley with all of our gear, in that perfect clean air, I felt the same chest pain and knew that my original assessment was wrong, and I likely had a heart condition.  I made an appointment to see a cardiologist the next week. I went for a series of tests, an ECG, a blood test, a urine test, an x-ray, and a treadmill test.  All of the tests were normal, except for the treadmill test, which was abnormal.  This abnormality indicates a condition commonly known a...
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