I was  exposed to heart  attack  since  3  years,is  it  save  to  use  LEVITRA (10 mg),with aspirin/Dilatrend
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I believe that if you are haemodynamically stable & your endurance of physical exertion is good /climbing staircases, walking/ you can try (once in a while)using  sexual performing drugs but better look towards more physioligical methods like better partner understanding, creation of  ambient conditions, try to be more balanced and at peace rather be volatile, try to be more positive than result oriented. If you have certain fears which date back to your experiences of the heart attack/ or immediately after it you can ask you physician or a psychologist for advice.
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Though it is safe to take, you should however consult your doctor and let him asses your medical condition (including any past surgery, current medication, heart condition etc). You could start with 50mg and could take up t0 100 mg per day.
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Sure! You can do whatever kind of exercises you want. As long as you're not experiencing any weird heart problems (a possible side effect) you should be good to go. \n\nHere's a really good, to-the-point website on all sorts of meds. \n\nHope this helps!
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This is a great medication, I was around when it was just introduced in the clinical setting and after, there are a lot of people who have regained lung volumes! Thought never to be able to happen with copd patients.\nThe answer is right about not using atrovent, what it does is because sprieva is a longer acting atrovent they compete for the same receptor and if you have too much atrovent in there the spireva is just wasted and useless.\n\nspiriva is great!
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no, it should be more than five years to cause irreversable damage.  you may want to take the vitamin coq 10 though.  it will bring high blood pressure down and help dissolve small blockages.
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i really don't think there is a prevention for it my husband has had 2 he eats only baked food and sugar free food he is a diabetic as well he doesn't eat salt no soft drinks or sweet tea he doesn't drink but smokes he is 53 yrs old  he has stints in his heart and the lower part of his heart is not pumping blood at all which leaves him wide open for another heart attack he takes plavix with an aspirin every morning and meds for his cholesterol we have taken every precaution to prevent this but it hasn't worked
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No exercises, (save light house hold activity and maybe a little, gentle walking)  Now is not the time to engage in cardiac rehab.  Be sure to have your nitro in your pocket all of the time.  Take the nitro with ANY chest pressure, discomfort, tightness, fullness, or shortness of breath especially associated with activity.  Do not wait for it to be "painful."  Trust me on this one.  \n\nYour condition is unknown (therefore unstable) and it is impossible (and foolish) to predict what might be the case until you have your study.  The date for your angio seems uncharacteristically far away.  Usually if a person fails an exercise test we have an angiogram done within a week and often within a couple days...even the next day.  Something seems inconsistent there.  Is the date at your convenience?  If so, have it done as soon as possible so the unknown becomes known and your cardiologist can devise a treatment plan with better information.\n\nGood luck to you.
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I cannot answer your question directly. however I will share my experience. I was on Lipitor for several years and I did not like the side effects. \nI stopped taking Lipitor and started taking Niacin which is one of the B vitamins.\nWithin a month or 3 my cholesterol and triglycerides were both in the normal range. I have been on Niacin for about 3 years now and it is still keeping every thing under control.\nShould you decide to follow my route there are a couple of things to be aware of.\n1. Only the straight Niacin does the job. Do not use Niacinamid, no flush Niacin or slow release Niacin.\n2. Some people cannot take Niacin, they have an allergic reaction to it.\n3. Niacin has a side effect that many people dislike, it causes a flush that lasts for a short time after taking the pill. However once a person is on Niacin for a week or so the flush reaction almost disappears.\nTo start taking Niacin, start out with a small dose, say 25 milligrams at a time. then gradgually build up the amount that you take.\nPresently I take 500 to 1000 milligrams 3 times a day.\nWhen I first started I worked up to 4000 mil per day. \nI had been on Norvast for high blood pressure but it appears that Niacin also reduced my blood pressureto the point that my Dr. took me off Norvast and suggested that I reduce my Niacin intake to 3000 Mil per day.\nFinally, may I suggest that you do a internet search on Niacin. There is lots of good info there.
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My cholesterol was not controllable with lifestyle changes. This is not surprising since my mother had a heart attack at 42. I drastically changed my diet and began moderate exercise almost daily. Because of insurance, it was three years before I was able to follow up, but the numbers had barely changed.\n\nI am grateful for the cholesterol lowering drugs, in spite of any side effects I may have to deal with, and will gladly take it for the rest of my life. Considering that my son (who died of congestive heart failure at 15--the result of chemo) had to take 182 pills a week for the rest of his life, it simply doesn't seem a big deal. I am already 11 years older than my mother ever was and, with the cancer in my personal and family history, I'll be darned if my heart will take me out!
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My husband took tarceva for lung cancer . It was $2950.00 per month. He passed in June .  I have about 14 pills left. If you want them email me I will give them to you. Good luck and I will be thinking of you.
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I don't think there is (or at least nothing proven to work), but just so you know Levitra is not over the counter. Its a prescription just like Viagra.
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OK... time to make some clarifications. A 64-slice CT scanner is sometimes used as an alternative to more invasive coronary angiography. The fact that your CT scan showed two areas of blockage means you should probably undergo a coronary angiogram to verify these findings and to treat the disease if it is there. You should definitely start taking an aspirin, as this has been shown in studies to reduce the risk of heart attack in patients with known coronary disease. In addition, there are a handful of other drugs that have been shown in very large, well designed scientific trials to reduce your risk of heart attack, heart failure, and death. These include a beta-blocker (one kind of blood pressure medicine), an ACE-inhibitor (another blood pressure medicine), and a cholesterol-lowering drug in the "statin" class. Several alternative treatments have been tried and pushed in the past including chelation therapy, but the truth is that none of these have been shown to reverse coronary artery blockages. In fact, none of the drugs mentioned above have been shown to reliable reverse coronary blockages either. BUT you don't necessarily need these blockages to shrink for the medications to provide a benefit.\n\nNow, I have to say that IT ISN'T TRUE THAT YOUR 90% BLOCKAGE COULD KILL YOU AT ANY MOMENT. Sure, it's POSSIBLE that you could drop dead tomorrow, but that 90% blockage probably grew gradually over the course of a few years so it is unlikely to suddenly close off at any moment. Don't panic! On the other hand, it will probably continue to progress to 95%... 97%... 99%... and eventually lead to such significant blockage that some of your heart muscle will fail to get enough blood flow, even when you are at rest. This can lead to something called a non-ST elevation MI - a heart attack. The more upstream that blockage is, the more heart muscle it supplies and the more life-threatening that heart attack can be.\n\nWith the newer technologies at our disposal, most significant blockages in the coronary arteries can be opened during the angiogram with a small, drug-eluting stent. These have a very good tendency to stay open over many years, thus avoiding the need for surgery in most patients. However, depending on the location of the blockage, some patients may still do better with surgery.\n\nI strongly urge you to see your doctor and get the coronary angiography done. It is not something that you have to do in the next day or two, but it should definitely be taken care of in the next couple of weeks. Believe me, if there were natural medicines that are effective for treating coronary disease, your insurance company would force you to take those before it agreed to shell out $15,000 for a stent.
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Well non-specific changes in one lead do not mean much in themselves.  In the setting of chest pain, they become a bit more worrisome.  Take comfort in the fact that you are in a facility where they will take care of you.  Many people come to this forum with no insurance...they have no benefit of "waiting for doctors to run tests on them;"  all they get is this forum (sad).  Even if you have blockages, the treatments now days are excellent.  So, wait for the tests and good luck!!
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I'd still try to get your LDL down. best thing to do is excercise and lower your cholesterol intake. if you eat a lot of eggs (they have a TON of cholesterol) or fatty meat scaling back on those on that might get you down. you could also get prescription, id probably go with a statin, zocor in particular because a generic is coming out in a month or two so it will be the cheapest. doctors are going crazy prescribing zetia right now; dont let him give it to you, its a crappy drug by itself and its expensive. i guess your profile is kinda borderline though, depends on if you want to do it or not. if you have a family history of heart problems or coronary artery disease id do it. they say every 2 points you lower your LDL you lower your risk of having a heart attack in the next 10 years by about 1% so if you got it back down to 200 which is considered normal you could decrease your risk of a heart attack by about 1/3
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You are not too young to have a heart attack.\n\nEspecially because you note that you are prescribed blood pressure medicine.. which is an associated risk, and leads me to think there may be other factors (hereditary) involved also.\n\nYou should call 911 and be transported by an ambulance to the hospital.  \n\nIf you are uncomfortable with this, call the ER and ask to talk with the Triage Nurse.  The Nurse will best advise you.\n\nHave a friend or family member drive you to the hospital.\n\nAt the very least, you will receive more blood pressure medicine, and assurance that you are okay.\n\nGood luck & Be Well :-)
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Yes take 100mg daily, it is widely used in Japan to treat heart disease.
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Asperin alone no. It can help as it thins the blood. As such the blood circulates much better. But over all it addresses problems which can cause a heart attack. So looking at it this way I suppose one could say it does prevent heart attacks.