after having a heart attack with no damage caused by blood clot should I have not received a anti coag medicat
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I am a little confused by your description. IF your heart attack was caused by a clot, then I would think it should have been considered. If you had a cardiac cath (dye test) that showed no obstruction, but you did have a confirmed heart attack (as opposed to chest pain or angina- which can happen without muscle damage), I would wonder why. \n\nIf your cardiologist is good and you trust him/her, ask about it. Ask why you had the heart attack if you had no obstruction, and address your concern about the meds- Plavix and aspirin are very common meds which are used to help prevent further problems. Also, were you screened for cholesterol and fractions? These are very important for management. You may need to be considered for treatment, but the cardiologist can help you understand.
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R u on anticoagulants (drugs that tend to prevent clotting) like warfarin, heparin? Or if u r on any drug for that matter. Endocarditis may bes suspected, but not without fever. Bye. TC.
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First, I find the first post to be offensive, and if you dont know the answer just dont give it!\n\nSecond your answser - blood clots are caused from the stagnant flow of blood which does not return to the heart.  Unlike your arteries which have alot of muscle in them, your veins rely on compressions of skeletal muscle to return blood back to the heart.  If you are not moving your feet or legs, blood pools and can clot while it is sitting there.\n\nThe tight socks in the hospital compress the skeletal muscle which help blood to return back to the heart.  In flight, your legs can swell, thus tight socks would contrict blood flow and possibly make swelling worse.\n\nNo matter what socks you wear, just do ankle exercises and all will be well! :)
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In the spring of 1984 I had a foot long blood clot in my right leg in the calf area.  Blood clots are often referred to as thrombophelbitis meaning a deep vein blood clot.  I was in the hospital for 3 wks and had to remain in bed.  The doctor tested my blood, and he told me I had blood the consistency of frozen ketchup!  So he put me on Coumaden.  He tried the pill form, but it wasn't working, so he gave it to me thru a i.v.  After several days had passed, my blood still wasn't thinning out like he had hoped so in addition to the i.v. Coumaden, he ordered shots of Hepburn several times a day in my stomach area.  After awhile things were starting to look better, until the nurse went to get a sample of my blood and I was bleeding really bad, all over the bed and floor.  The doctor had to eliminate the Hepburn shots and slowly after a period of a few more days, my blood returned to normal again.  \n\nWith modern technology, I am certain by now, the treatment is a lot better than it was back in 1984.\n\nI hope this is helpful to you!  Good luck and I hope you feel better soon!!
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Yes, but you need to get emergency care if you are in doubt or if you feel you are in any way unsure of the emergency of your medical problem.\n\nBlod clots are not something to play around with and if you need a blood thinner to dissolve this clot (? if that is what you indeed have) you won't get it without medical care and will jeopardize your health by neglecting this.\n\nSciatica can also cause leg pain as can knee pain...but it sounds as if your pain is in the general area of the leg?  Seek help if you think this isn't something that can wait until you see the doctor.
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If you need a letter of medical necessity it would not seem that some advice from any website would be of any help to you. \nIf a doctor ordered a heparin flush, you should not have much of a problem getting the letter from him. A prescribed treatment should by a licenced MD should qualify. \nIf on the other hand it was something you did on your own after reading something of the efficacy of this treatment you'll have some more problems (and, unfortunately, rightly so): go to the doctor anyway and explain why the flush was done and bring along whatever information you have on it and beg. And promise the doctor you'll never do such a thing again unless you have his full cooperation.
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You probably won't know about it if you have a bloodclot. Clots are oxygen bubbles, and will more than likely kill you if they reach your heart or brain. But you won't feel a blood clot until it is too late I'm afraid, so don't worry about it too much.
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Actually someone may have suggested to you that you may have heart problems,  You have gone through the tests and nothing has showed up.  If there was a problem believe me you would have been notified or admitted to the hospital from the emergency room.\n   Now you are dealing with a little anxiety, better address this problem before it starts ballooning into full scale panic attacks. \n   Trust in the doctors diagnosis, If you still are not convinced get a second opinion, make sure you also submit all your lab work and tests  so the new doctor has something to work with.\n   Just kick back smile and say to yourself It wasn't a heart attack or I wouldn't be sitting here right now.
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Blood clots are a natural and necessary part of the healing process. However, when they occur internally or in the wrong place, as a result of disease or injury, they can be dangerous. If an internal blood clot breaks loose and travels through the circulatory system, it may become lodged in an important blood vessel and block the flow of blood to vital organs. The result may be a heart attack, stroke, disabling injury in the limbs or pulmonary embolism.\n\nTo prevent blood clots, many patients will be given medications, including antiplatelets or anticoagulants. These medications work by inhibiting the natural blood clotting process. To minimize the damage from existing blood clots in an emergency situation, a physician may prescribe clot-busting drugs, which break up blood clots.\n\nYou may also go to www.webmd.com  for all your medical questions. \n\nI hope this answers your question and that I have been helpful.\nGreg120750
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There is something better than coumadin it is called grape seed extract. It does similar in that it keeps clots from forming but it also helps heal the body with very dramatic results. I can get you more information on a company that makes a cardio vascular formula that is patened.
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Please NEVER take any chest pain lightly; it could be life-threatening.  That being said, the major signs of heart attack are for men, a crushing pressure on the chest, which may or may not be accompanied by pain radiating down the left arm, jaw, or shoulder.  Also, cardiac arrest can include the victim becoming unresponsive, fainting, stopping normal breathing, and loss of pulse.  \n\nI am not a doctor, but it seems to me as if this may not be heart-related, but once again, I reiterate that I am not a doctor.  I have heard of a condition where your sternum (the bone in the middle of the chest) becomes infected and inflammed, and causes great pain.\n\nRegardless of whether you have insurance or not; you have to get this checked out immediately.  Go to your nearest County Hospital (they usually care for people without insurance and can help you obtain state financial help), or go to the nearest ER, and tell them you are having chest pains.  They will see you right away, and have to treat you, whether you have insurance or not, because chest pains are considered a life-threatening emergency.  And then, when you get that huge bill, just pay whatever you can afford each month, even if it's only $5.00.  They can't report you for non-payment if you're making payments, you are in fact showing good faith.  Just make sure you send a certified letter to billing notifying them of your financial condition and ability to pay only *x* amount of dollars per month.\n\nHope you get help soon.........let us know.
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you get pain and swelling and the area goes hot and puffy if its in the leg if its in the lung you get breathless very short of breath,Warfarin is the medication they give you to break up the clot but this is only given under steict supervision as it causes internal bleeding .Asprin is also used to prevent further clots,
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When most people say "heart attack," they mean an MI -- myocardial infarction.  This is usually caused when a plaque in one of the heart's blood vessels ruptures and blocks the vessel.  The heart muscle supplied by this vessel starves from lack of oxygen.  If the clot is not eliminated in eight hours or so, most of the heart muscle in that region is irreversably damaged.  Survival after a heart attack depends on how long it takes to get treatment, and how much of the heart muscle is affected.  \n\nAnother kind of "heart attack" could be an arrhythmia -- the heart suddenly starts beating abnormally and is unable to sustain circulation.  You may have heard people being "scared to death."  Although this is very rare, it probably refers to the heart going into an arrhythmia called pulseless ventricular tachycardia.
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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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A heart attack is also known as a myocardial infarction (myo=muscle, cardial=heart, infarction=starving of oxygen and dying).  A heart attack occurs when plaque builds up in the arteries on the outside of the heart, feeding the heart muscle.  \n\nAn inflamatory process occurs causing the plaque to rupture within the artery.  A part of plaque either moves down stream or a clot forms at the rupture point and/or moves down stream.  When a sudden blockage occurs in one of the arteries, it deprives the muscle of oxygen.  Death of the heart muscle cell begins without oxygen and starts to release chemicals that can be detected in the blood stream.  The sooner the blockage can be relieved either by clot busting medications or by an urgent angioplasty the better the prognosis is for the patient.  In adddition to the length of time that the blockage occurs, the placement (which of the arteries) is key is establishing the long term damage and prognosis for a patient.  Certain arteries supply more important areas of the heart than other arteries.  These days many patients who have heart attacks, are in the hospital for a few days and are on a normal regimen within 6 weeks.  \n\nIf immediate help is not obtained, the damaged heart is irritable and can begin a rhythm that is not compatible with life, called ventricular tachycardia.  This is why defibrillators are becoming more available in places like airplanes and malls, to use electricity to shock the heart out of that fatal rhythm.
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ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND asking such a question like this online? It's bad enough that this catagory exists at all, much less seeking medical direction, of any kind, from laymen.\n\nWho prescribed to you? If it wasn't a cardiologist, get one, especially with a history of heart disease or heart involvement.\n\nAnd...NEVER, EVER ask ANY kind of medical question here.\nWell intentioned as people are, they have no business offering their bad advise. If you are a professional, IN THIS FIELD ONLY, state your titles.\n\nThis makes me CRAZY. People, stay off of this site if you are coming on to ask or answer medical questions. You put yourselves and others in great danger.Don't even come on for advise because you can never be sure of who knows what.\n\nGrizz\n\nIt would be nice as well, to get a little verbal support from some of my colleagues on this travesty.
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In theory, taking an aspirin each day prevents clots, which can be bad if you start bleeding.  Whether from injuries, aneurysms, or ailments.  You and your doc should weigh the risks to see if you need to take an aspirin.