I'm a teenager with no medical knowledge and was wondering if anyone out there could help explain this to me. Basically well over a year ago my Dad was out with my mum and had a heart attack. The doctors at first could not figure out what was wrong with him and were completely surprised that a fairly young, healthy and fit man with no excessive stress could have a heart attack. So they let him go. Only it happened again and again. They eventually figured out that his heart had substantial amounts of scar tissue over his heart, but couldn't figure where it came from. They operated and removed most of it but it kept on coming back. Since all this started my dad has been having "tachycardia's" on and off. This is incredibly hard for me to bare, not knowing when it will happen and other obvious concerns. But it also pains me to see him not be able to go for a walk, drive his car or do things which he enjoys like golf (which dont even require much physical activity) What I would really like to know is why the scar tissue forms but if we knew that I guess he wouldnt be having these attacks because it would now be cured, but why does it keep happening and what could be done to help avoid this?
Thanks
Henrietta F - Try a plant-based diet. Watch the documentary Forks over Knives. It is really helpful!
ReplyDeletenurse52 - I have never heard of removing scar tissue from the heat. But maybe they came up with something new.
ReplyDeleteWhen you have a heart attack and it is not caught in time. The area the blood is not getting to dies.
Eventually the heat can form collateral circulation and get enough blood to continue to perform.
However it may not perform right.
Taking medications as prescribed should help.
Other things to do are: quit smoking if he does , mild exercise if ok with doc. Decrease cholesterol and fats in food control anxiety. look up heart disease prevention.
Sometimes it is just in the genes.
Take care
PS: ask doc about Coreg. It is a heart med.