This possibly a stunned. Simply to let you realize that I had a mini coronary heart assault on eighth October 2024.
I used to be enjoying badminton and felt one thing incorrect coz I used to be feeling too drained and determined to go emergency at sgh.
3 hrs later my Troponin stage shot as much as 100. Regular vary is 30. It is a huge coronary heart assault. Google for Troponin.
I used to be positioned to do angiography after that and so they discovered 3 plaque blockages at 70%. See diagram under.
Fortunate me that I survived by going to hospital early. Else I might have been lifeless enjoying my 2x November tournaments. I didn’t play.
Physician advisable me a bypass surgical procedure safer, however I made a decision to strive stenting by going for 2nd opinion. The complexity was the 100% blockage on the circumflex artery.
It was a harrowing 2 months await the surgical procedure from eighth October to fifth December. Felt like a ticking timebomb. Sleep was not snug due some niggling sensations on the coronary heart space. The Q was lengthy, which means many individuals have coronary heart points. You may google what what number of coronary heart points there are. Correct weight loss plan and brisk strolling solely until the operation.
Yesterday fifth December, I went for two drug eluding abbot stents. RCA and Circle stents. Was glad that the Circumflex 100% blocked stent was not an advanced one. It is a comfortable plague. The doc managed to push the stent by way of it.
Doc adviced me to do one other 2 LAD stents 6 weeks later. Much less dangerous after it’s stablelized. However I simply met him as we speak sixth and he stated, it is okay to do the following stent 4 weeks later. Saves time.
I shd recuperate 1 week later however can not play too intensed badminton. Teaching is comfortable with low depth for teenagers.
I hope to do full badminton aggressive recuperate by April 2025 after my 2nd stenting on the LAD facet.
So, as an recommendation. Should you or your loved ones members or pals are overweight with bmi 25 above. Higher go and verify up. Under are my private experiences and recommendations solely to save lots of time.
1st signal from my expertise is ldl ldl cholesterol. Whether it is greater than 3.0, go do calcium CT scan check. If whole calcium is 80 and above, you higher go do angiography with check consequence just like the picture consequence under. It is extremely correct. Applies to women. One of the best is simply do angiogram right away. Definitely worth the cash.
I’m fortunate to detect it at 56yo. For many different folks will probably be found after 60yo. So, no hurt doing at 50s or 40s. At the least as soon as.
My case is because of the meals I ate. I began consuming junks like ckt, prata, laksa, nasi lemak, fried rice, fish and chips and so on since 10 years previous.
So it is the meals consumption that are oily, salty and sugary.
I believed by exercising is already ok to remain wholesome. But it surely’s not true. It is the meals we eat.
When you do angiogram and in case you are clear, subsequent check is 5 years away.
Sgh or IJN have superb amenities. Most have IVL now to blast the plagues. Ask for grade A ward. After stenting, you will want to remain for one night time for observations and to flush the distinction. 2 drips. SOP.
The recommendation is to stent as many as potential. 60% above. Bypass is painful and longer restoration coz they may lower your ribs, if they cannot do keyhole surgical procedure. However last more like 15 years I believe. Stent is 5 to 10 years. Take Abbott stents for high quality. By then, they need to have new know-how to deal with them.
Minimal threat for angiography now days. Deal with it like a blood donation course of. Solely 30 minutes.
Btw, my insurance coverage was previous the place it covers 100% thro Prudential. My premium will go up sgd$1600 on 2025. New insurance coverage is not going to cowl 100%.
For brand new insurance coverage premiums, the max protection is barely about 90% coz they need you to regulate the associated fee. They pressure you to pay some prices as a management measure. They may go bankrupt if they permit hospitals to cost exorbitant charges. (If it is limitless, you will not care how a lot hospitals will cost you. Insurance coverage firms must pay for you.)
My 2 stenting as we speak prices sgd$27k, 2 extra stenting to go. Assume one other $27k.
In sg, for those who solely have the fundamental cpf insurance coverage or medisave, you could solely must pay 10 to twenty%. So, you weigh your self, if u want fundamental or enhanced non-public insurance coverage.
Q n A.
If my ldl or BP is regular. Do I nonetheless want angiography?
No hurt doing it coz ldl ups and downs relying on what u ate beforehand.
As an example u acquired a historical past of unhealthy ldl, which is the unhealthy ldl cholesterol 10 years in the past, and over the 5 years after that, the plague has constructed as much as trigger some blockages, Your current good ldl studying would not tells you that you just had earlier cummilated the blockages already. That is the place the hazard is. It is too late.
So, it’s nonetheless adviceble to do angiogram at the very least as soon as after 45yo. Coronary heart assault is a one time thingy. If it is a large coronary heart assault and you might be on the ground, that is it, goodbye. No second likelihood.
My coronary heart assault signal was when I’ve left shoulder getting drained or numbness. You may see that I’m transferring my left arm within the video simply earlier than the sport begins. Am additionally hardly transferring effectively. I felt some pinching sensation at coronary heart space. Respiration problem additionally. I get extra drained than my different typical video games.
Hope you discover this data helpful.
That is the video under the place I felt too drained and dying even earlier than I began enjoying third sport. I made a decision to cease half approach at 11 factors. Knowledge. You may see I’m struggling. If I’m on the ground, I possibly gone.
Under is an easy angiogram process.
See my earlier than and after stenting picture at remark part under.
