I finally got to know an outcome of my next stage of recovery\u2026and made a mistake of doing a bit of research on the web. <\/p>\n
I have a totally blocked artery. Fortunately my heart has compensated and grown another artery path near to the damaged area so blood is being supplied. This puts me in a mid way position between a routine stent operation and bypass. It seems it\u2019s going to be a complicated stent procedure, but I\u2019m told being performed by a very good specialist. <\/p>\n
So I have a look on the web and the first thing I see is an advert right at the top \u201cStents are very dangerous\u201d It goes on to sell some wonder medicine that thins out the damaging plaque to unblock the arteries and make you all as new. If I was a blocked sink I guess it\u2019s the difference between calling in a plumber for either rod plunging which normally works well, or a more complex repiping, or just buying some drain block acid. <\/p>\n
I start to look at medical sites and many talk about the ease in which stents can be put in\u2026one referred to surgeons doing stents in the same ease they change tyres. But do doctors actually change tires? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
The odds<\/strong> There\u2019s some recent research that suggest if you don\u2019t have the stent at the same time as you experience the heart attack there\u2019s not a great benefit from having one fitted later to prevent further attack. Their research indicates that you have as much chance of survival taking the medication that\u2019s prescribed.<\/p>\n So I\u2019m now in a dilemma. Do I have a stent or do I take my chances? I am currently getting chest discomfort when I exercise, but it\u2019s not unbearable. Do the plaque dissolving methods work or is this just another age reducing\/baldness curing un-wonderdrug? <\/p>\n I will be seeing the specialist for a pre-stent assessment. I have a few questions. I\u2019ll add my findings here. <\/p>\n If anyone\u2019s been through any of this already please feel free to send me a comment it will make for useful reading for anyone who ends up in the same position in the future.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I finally got to know an outcome of my next stage of recovery\u2026and made a mistake of doing a bit of research on the web. I have a totally blocked artery. Fortunately my heart has compensated and grown another artery path near to the damaged area so blood is being supplied. This puts me in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThere\u2019s a risk with a stent that the body may not like it and react, or that the stent cannot be manoeuvred into place correctly and cause complications, or that you have a stroke. The odds of dying in hospital are, according to a British Heart Foundation leaflet, about 200 to 1. <\/p>\n