Experiencing a life-changing event such as a SCAD, has a huge impact on those who had the SCAD as well as their families and friends. Finding a lack of information about an uncommon and poorly understood condition can be difficult and may add to the strains of recovery. Reading others stories can be an enormous help.
August 28, 2017
Sunday morning coffee, start to get up for another cup and have a dull, constant pain across my shoulder blades and upper chest . After waiting 2 to 3 minutes without any relief we call 911. Thank goodness we didn’t wait any longer. After a heart cath and angiogram it was determined it was SCAD. […]
August 21, 2017
Hiya, I am older than most SCAD people. I am 57, and was reasonably fit and healthy. I was on no medications for anything. One day I took a walk up in the hills, about an hour or so. It is a regular walk I take, a bit steep in places, but not too tough. […]
August 16, 2017
I’ve been a long distance runner for 30 years and a cross country/track coach for 24 years. I estimate that I have run 80,000 miles in my lifetime. I’ve never had a poor checkup and considered myself (until now) as extremely healthy man. I teach and coach in the Kinesiology, Health, Nutrition, and Athletics department […]
August 14, 2017
Just home from an aerobics class I felt a little chest pain. I walked upstairs and my left arm hurt a little. I Googled that and it said to get to the hospital. It didn’t hurt much so I had dinner first :). Then my wife took me to the ER. I had slightly elevated […]
August 11, 2017
While I don’t smoke or do drugs, I do enjoy a glass of wine every now and then. As a 36 year old mother of two on summer vacation from my full time elementary teaching job, I was attempting to unwind and have a glass out on my back porch this past Sunday, August 6, […]
July 24, 2017
I was on a long bike ride last week (55 miles) with a friend as we were training for a 200 mile bike ride next month. About 2 miles into the ride we hit our first long slow climb up a hill and I immediately felt complete exhaustion in my arms and legs…almost like they […]
July 22, 2017
On Monday afternoon, I started feeling a strange sensation in my chest. Like my heart and my lungs were one entity that was stretched out the expanse of my chest and like a dull ache. I imagined it to feel like the “opposite of an asthma attack”, if anyone else is able to relate to […]
July 18, 2017
This story starts about October 5th of last year, maybe a bit earlier, I just wasn’t feeling well. I am a Sjogrens patient so generally speaking days can be challenging but during a follow appt I was trying to express to my rheumatologist that I just was feeling more fatigued, more achy, just more not […]
July 9, 2017
My story is on 05/05/2017 about 8:00 am I was walking with my two small dogs when I got intense pain in my chest, after 30 minutes at home I phoned for the paramedic and was taken to a local hospital who diagnosed a heart attack. I was then rushed to a special heart and […]
June 25, 2017
My wife just last week had another scad heart attack. I am scared. Has anyone else suffered more than one in a five year period????? She is going to start rehab soon again. I don’t know how to handle this. I love her and need her alive.