Open Question: Does having a heart murmur affect you in any way?
I’ve had a heart murmur all of my life, I was born with one. Usually I get them about once a week. Last night, however, I got about 10-15 of them in an hour. I was wondering what does that mean, and what does a heart murmur do? Will it affect me in any way?

Thu, 21 May 2009 20:34:04 GMT
Resolved Question: WHAT ARE THE SYMPTOMS OF ARYTHMIA?
I HAVE BEEN FEELING REALY WEAK AND I GET THESE ATTACKS LIKE MY HEART PALPATATES UNREGULAR AND I GET DIZZY AND SHORT OF BREATH BUT IT ONLY HAPPENS LIKE FOR 5 TO 30 SECONDS AND THEN IT GOES AWAY BUT IT IS REALLY SCARRY, I WENT TO THE HOSPITAL WHEN IT HAPPENS BUT THEY ONLY TELL MY THAT I HAVE ARYTHMIA AND THAT I HAVE TO GO TO MY CARDIOLOGIST BUT I HAVE AND HE IS ORDERING ME A HOLTER CHEST OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, BUT I AM REALLY FREAKING OUT WHEN IT HAPPENS SHOULD I BE CONCERN? AND WHAT CAN I DO TO PREVENT THESE ATTACKS..

Tue, 19 May 2009 19:12:25 GMT

Open Question: Heart Disease and Swine Flu?
I have peripartum cardiomyopathy, basically cardiomyopathy brought on by pregnancy. I’m fully recovered with an ejection fraction of 55-60% and completely normal heart function, like it never happened. Just been advised NEVER to get pregnant again. I still take BP medicine though.
So I’m worried if I contract h1n1 I may not be able to fight it off due to my condition. Or would I be catogorized with the regular population since I’ve returned to normal health? I still suffer from PVC’s from time to time but that’s it.
I hear that if you have heart disease you are less likely to make it. Would that apply to me also?

Thu, 21 May 2009 05:02:33 GMT
Open Question: Question for military doctor?
I have a heart murmur which is a hole in my heart. it is at its most minor condition. do you think that this very minor condition will keep me from being in the service?
I have no limits to activities I work out do sports long runs 4 miles or so i can keep my heart rate at lower then 140 even during a mild sprint for long periods of time. half a mile is what i have so far tested and planning on a mile.

Thu, 21 May 2009 01:08:01 GMT

Open Question: What is a heart murmur?
So, my cousin’s parents thinks she has a heart murmur. Apparently, it’s genetic, and my aunt has it, also. But I’m not so sure what a heart murmur really is. I have heard about it every once in a while, but it still makes me concerned, and I’d like to know whats going on with my cousin =] She said there is two different kinds, but she doesn’t know much about it herself..All answers are appreciated =] Thank you!
Wed, 20 May 2009 20:16:40 GMT
Open Question: Universal Health Care Question?
Why do people say universal health care is going to be the health care reform we need? yes for minor procedures (like check ups and all) it will make it more affordable, but under the canadian system, if you need any major procedures (say heart arythmia) you are asked to wait up to 6 months for a doctor to become available, then after you get your doctor, you may have to wait upwards to 2 years to actually have your procedure (in which fatalities may occur). so why does America need Universal Health Care, when all the system we are currently under needs is price regulation, and government sposored health care to be brought out of debt.
my kids are on illinois ‘all kids’ program and when we call a doctor, if they say that they are accepting new patients and they say that they can see us within 2 hours, as soon as we tell them we’re on that, then it jumps to 2 weeks. GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE CAN ONLY WORK IF THE GOVERNMENT CAN PAY ITS BILLS.

Wed, 20 May 2009 01:42:17 GMT

Open Question: Can Taking Extacsy While having a mild case of heart murmur benefit negitively?
I know someone who has a heart murmur and taken the drug before. Nothing has happend. Did this friend just get lucky? Or is there no differnence between a regular person with a normal heart taking extacsy vers someone with a heart murmur taking the drug?

Wed, 20 May 2009 06:29:49 GMT

Open Question: help .. im loosing my boyfriend?
okay so me and my boyfriend have been dating since new years eve… then may 18th he just told me that he’s dying from a heart murmur …something like that…im 20 and hes 22 …
what do i do im so depressed right now!
im there as much as i can be what i want to know is what cauese as heart murmur.. and how can u fix it..

Tue, 19 May 2009 17:00:41 GMT

Open Question: is leukocytosis a heart disease or a blood disease?
project in school! thanks!

Tue, 19 May 2009 07:00:58 GMT
Open Question: Is it bad to scare a puppy/person with a light heart murmur?
We just got a 10 week old pug puppy adopted from a rescue. The info they gave on him was little to none basically. However one thing that was listed was that the vet said he had a very light heart murmur but should be able to live a perfectly normal life. So we have for the last few days treated him as any other dog. It still concerns us though when we wake him suddenly and it scares him or when other things scare him that it might be bad for his heart. Is this something to worry about or since they said it was a very light heart murmur should he probably be living a normal life where scaring him is no worse then scaring anyone else?

Tue, 19 May 2009 01:20:44 GMT

Open Question: What do you think of my story? Please give me your opinions. :)?
They said, that to live in Nick City, you needed a heart colder than the guy you put a bullet in on the way into town that morning. You needed a complete lack of any moral scruples, a hatred of your fellow man, and enough skill with a gun to outwit your opponent. You needed to be a killer.
Adelaide Skinner was one of those people. A slim, tall woman, with dark brown hair that fell in smooth glossy ringlets about her face, light green eyes that glittered menacingly in the moonlight, and thin coral pink lips that seemed permanently pursed with hatred, or contempt, it was difficult to tell; she walked with a sweet lethargic grace and indifference. She was beautiful, lusted after by countless men, and she knew it - she was intelligent enough to know that her well-proportioned figure brought pleasure to the guys she waltzed past. Her beauty was complimented perfectly by her uncaring attitude, her willingness to slide in and out of a man?s bedsheets, and the pistol she kept in the leather shoulder bag slung across her back.
It was early morning, four o clock, or thereabouts, it was difficult to tell. Effortlessly, Adelaide eased her naked body from between the sheets and stood, briefly, looking scathingly at the sleeping man. The previous night was blurred by the shots of whiskey she?d knocked back in the quiet bar she?d visited. Better to leave the memories to fizzle out and lie with the other nights she?d spent, gyrating her body to the sound of the piano, whilst the men watched hungrily, flies around honey. She began to look around her, the dismal inner-city apartment, taking in the surroundings, where she?d spent the previous night moaning and murmuring in the man?s clumsy grip.
She found her dress on the floor, where either she, or the man who was now snoring pig-like in his own bed whilst she foraged for her clothes, had thrown it as they?d undressed the night before. Her stockings were nearby, her undergarments were between the sheets, and the leather bag was hanging off the chair in the corner. She pulled her clothes on quickly, rolling the skin-tight dress down to cover, if cover was the right word, as the skimpy cloth barely even hid her caramel taut thighs. Rather than looking rumpled, creased from the night before like the bed-sheets the man dribbled in, she looked as seductive and gorgeous as she had when she?d lured him from the bar to his apartment to his bedroom.
He?d been a nice guy, it was such a shame, she thought, as she reached for the bag and withdrew its contents. He?d even told her his name, John, James, Jed, something like that. He?d called her beautiful, been considerate, bought her the whiskies that had led her to his home.
She lifted the gun and aimed. He didn?t even stir as she pulled the trigger.
?Life?s a bitch,? she murmured, and smiled as she watched the man die.

Mon, 18 May 2009 20:21:25 GMT
Open Question: radio frequency ablation for arythmia pre op?
i’m an 18 year old male in the uk, had 3 superventricular tachycardia (SVT) attacks so far this year with a heart rate normally maxing out at 180bpm, i’ve found this pretty life changing as its literally put me off doing most things. as all 3 times i have been into hospital for intravenous drugs to correct the problem and i never know when it will happen again.
what im interested in is, i’ve had an ecg already at one cardio appointment, and im now booked in for a 24hour holter monitor test next week, and then a few weeks later another ecg.
but i recieved a letter last week saying i would be considered for radio frequency ablation, i am aware of what this procedure entails etc, but i was wondering what other tests will have to be done etc? is the 24hour and the other ecg sort of a build up of my case then i can have the ablation done?
or am i going to suffer waiting for months, anyone ever been through the procedure and how long you waited for an ablation, i know this varies between patient and hospital waiting times etc but does anyone have a rough idea?
as i just want my life to begin again. and any information i’d be so grateful of.

Mon, 18 May 2009 01:22:03 GMT

Open Question: Heart Murmur related to period?
I started my period last month for the first time and before it i had a heart mumur thing where my heart hurts or beats in my chest hard. Its about time for my period this month and i wanted to know if my heart murmur is related to my period i say no but my mom isnt the smartests and things it does

Mon, 18 May 2009 01:01:27 GMT

Open Question: Writing a novel. What does everyone think of it?
Daylight
Life is like a game the same rules apply, if you don?t play your cards right its game over but what if losing wasn?t an option, What if you had to keep playing this endless game? And as your playing only other players are able die, wouldn?t you wish for a gun to be pointed towards you for once so you can finally end this? My life is a game I meet players and lose them and trust me when I say it is no piece of cake.
I was stuck in one of those dark boxed visions I normally have when my eyes are shut, But it seemed real I could see them smiling at me my mother and father. Opening their arms and welcoming me to them. Dream or not all I want now is to be in there arms away from this dark box and rest safely in there arm. As I ran to my angels yelling out their names to make sure I got their attentions the dark box was becoming larger. Then I just stood there watching my parents leave me again as I become just a helpless enfant. As they vanished i felt alone again, is this destiny being alone?
?No!? I shouted as I landed on the floor (like always).
?Oh…it?s just a dream? i said to myself and quick look at the clock got me jumping out of bed to my bathroom. Another late day of school i thought to myself and quickly brushed my glossy dark brown hair and pulled it into a bun. I took a quick glance in the mirror staring at my gray shirt and black sweat pants. My tan skin camouflaged my dark bags under my dark brown eyes from my sleepless nights.
?Wow I don?t look too bad for a 10 second cleanup? laughed at myself, I really looked like an underwater sea monster.
Well i guess it?s about time I start introducing myself, My name is Sabrina Milton, I am a fifteen year old giant teen who lives? with her grandparent. Both my mom and dad were murdered when i was five but i don?t have much memory on them yet strangely I keep having these daily visions of them. The only think i remember was being alone in a dark attic crying. As of yet my life is just a normal boring everyday life but it all starts to change very soon.
?Sabrina you?re late for school once again breakfast is in the car with grandpa my muffin!? Grandma yelled from the door. So my day started of pretty normal well the late part not the ?My muffin? part. I quickly zipped up my sweater and was off for another day of school-fantastic. My grandma held my head with her hands and stared right into my eye?s
?Look at you, don?t even remember your own birthday. You are to forgetful …just like your mother but today it?s like I?m staring into my daughter eyes again? my grandma said as her voice broke into tears. Just kissed my cheek and then it her conversation hit me. It was my birthday, I?m sixteen today…But I thought it was next week how could i let this day pass by, this is also they say my parents died.
?It?s ok grandma…But if you?re ok with it can I go visit their graves after school just to put in their birthday gifts?? I whispered and went out the door when I saw her nod.
When i went into our old Pontiac 2005 car i noticed a gift on the passenger seat. I looked ahead and smiled at my grandpa but he looked very confused
?It?s not from us we got it from the mail, you get ours later on…look at the card it?s probably from one of your friend?s? He grinned. I was even more confused than he was, I hardly have many friends I?m known to be antisocial but then who would buy me it. I quickly open the pink card which had ?Happy sweet sixteen? all over it. As I skimmed through the card looking for a name my heart felt like it stopped. The shock was exhilarating, there in blue pen it had written
Love: Mom and dad!
This had to be a dream, it was impossible and ridiculous, my parents died eleven year ago what kind of sick show was this? I noticed my grandpa looking back from the seat staring at my face expression and looked scared himself.
?Its ok grandpa I was just surprise someone bought me such a nice card that?s all…? I replied to his silent question. He shook his head and murmured something silently to himself. My grandfather wasn?t much of a talker since mother talked. He usually keeps to himself and almost never stops watching the news.
He stopped in front of my worn out and destroyed looking school. Most bricks were out of place with cigarettes serrated everywhere, the school doors took much strength to open with pigeons everywhere. Everyday I get more surprised of how the health department hasn?t shut it down.
?Bye grandpa see you later? I said and noticed that the gift i received was still nicely wrapped and waiting for me to open it. I grabbed that in my way out. Grandpa nodded at me and grinned. I quickly ran inside pushing the doors open and rushed into class (this had to be the first time i came to class early). As i rushed through the halls i realised that there was no one in the halls, Not even a teacher. I quickly ran to class and scanned the classroom…Still no one in site.
?Just my luck…It was pro
, He was wearing a leather turtle necked sweater and pants with black boots. He was fairly handsome with his blue eyes shining at me. His messy brunette hair could be better though. I followed the man into a dark car which looked like it came from a batman movie. He grinned at me and opened the front door of the car. The car was soft leather in the inside and looked very expensive. He started the car and moved on straight ahead.
?What?s going on, how do you know my parents?? I asked
?There?s not much I was told except for the fact of you being very important? He said with a large smile.
I stiffened up and looked straight in the road. The rest of the ride was quiet and calm as we entered an underground parking lot. He got out of the car and opened the door for me. The place was empty except for a huge metal door with a small box that looked like a mini calculator. This reminded me of those spy movies, Top secret agency on the other side. Adam quickly punched in the numbers and tho
probably a holiday? I said quietly. I sat in front of my locker and opened the pink gift. There was nowhere else to go and home was too far to walk especially when it was the middle of December with cold Washington breeze. I ripped off the gift wrapping and saw a beautiful box surrounded by gems. My name was carved with the fanciest handwriting I had ever seen. I pulled open the box and a familiarly song was playing from it. There i noticed a small letter with dark black ink in it.
To our lovely daughter Sabrina
Happy birthday sweetheart, it?s so hard to believe our beautiful baby girl is so old. We?re sorry for not be there your whole life and it would be a blessing for us to be as a family. But if you are reading this letter is means we aren?t there kissing and hugging you on your sixteenth birthday Please don?t think that we left you because we will always be right beside you in your heart. We asked a friend of mine to send you this gift and this letter when you were at the right
age. You are not just an average girl but instead one of the most specialist little girl alive. You have the ability to save many lives hunny, which is why once you read this letter listen to everything you are told because it is no lie. Don?t worry one bit because an angel like you will never be alone. We wish you the greatest years of your life and to always be happy.
Love forever,
Mom and Dad!
There was a tear flowing down my eyes as i reached the end of my parents last letter, I would give up anything right now to be with them, safe in their arms. But what did they mean about being special and saving peoples? lives. The only great thing I?ve done was put my leg behind my head.
?Excuse me miss, my name is Adam and if you may please come with me? A mysterious voice said. I turn back but realised that this was what my parents were referring to when they said ?listen to everything you are told? i got up and stared at what seemed to be a 24 year-old man, He wa
, He was wearing a leather turtle necked sweater and pants with black boots. He was fairly handsome with his blue eyes shining at me. His messy brunette hair could be better though. I followed the man into a dark car which looked like it came from a batman movie. He grinned at me and opened the front door of the car. The car was soft leather in the inside and looked very expensive. He started the car and moved on straight ahead.
?What?s going on, how do you know my parents?? I asked
?There?s not much I was told except for the fact of you being very important? He said with a large smile.
I stiffened up and looked straight in the road.

Sun, 17 May 2009 19:20:26 GMT

Open Question: should my 13 year old dalmation move from Missouri to las vegas?
Ok my ex husband is moving to Las vegas in July and wants to take our 13 year old dal with him. She has horrible seperation anxiety and we are sharing custody of her right now. She also has a heart murmur and I am worried that the drive and move from home (Missouri) to las vegas will kill her. i am terribly worried and I would like your all’s opinion to either help me convince him that she shouldn’t go or help me feel better about it if she does move all that way. Thanks!
thanks for your quick responses. Also wanted to add, I have talked to her dad and he insists on taking her, bc he wants to move on…so he says. Also, I spoke with her cardiologist and he said that he though he wasn’t a great idea he couldn’t say that she shouldn’t go bc he would feel awful if he said that and then she had a heart attack here at home…. not sure what to do….
I am not sure how to respond so I will just add this here. Legallye our dog is his, he has had her since birth however I hav had her for the past 10 years so she is very much mine. I don’t think that a judge will let me have her but I feel like I have been the one to take care of her since I have been around for the past 10 years. Also, he is in law enforcement and will be working a min of a 10 hour day and I don’t think that that will be good on her either. Sorry, just wanted ot add that! Thank you all so much for your support!!! I want her to live a long happy healthy life!

Sun, 17 May 2009 02:14:24 GMT
Open Question: Can seasonal alergies cause shortness of breath?
Because i have had this for like not even a month like a month after spring started. And i have allergies and i am asking this because i am 13 years old and i do not have any other symptoms of anything that serious like heart disease.

Sun, 17 May 2009 00:20:14 GMT