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.
November 6, 2015
I am a 38 year old mother of 4. After a routine ultrasound in 2010 my doctors noticed the bottom tip of my heart was not functioning. I fell pregnant soon after this ultrasound and my obstetric doctor decided I was not to have an angiogram (I lost my first baby at 22 wks gestation). […]
I am a (recently-turned) 30 year-old man from London living in Singapore. I am in good shape – prior to my incident, I would exercise 5-7 times a week and rowed around the entire coastline of Singapore for charity. Earlier this year I started a new sport, dragon boating. Essentially it is like canoe paddling […]
October 31, 2015
I’m 29 years old, and was in perfect health. I was pregnant with my 2nd child, and he was born on 08/22/15 in perfect health. In the few days after I had him, I couldn’t figure out why I was so tired all the time. I didn’t have that issue with my first child. When […]
October 26, 2015
I was a fit 63 years old, none of the usual risk factors of heart disease when I had a severe heart attack while working out at the gym. I was diagnosed as having SCAD several days later after an angiogram, two tears in a coronary artery had canalised and left me with four dissections. […]
October 15, 2015
I am 28 years old and delivered my third child on 08/18/2015. On September 5th, my family and I drove to Myrtle Beach for vacation. Early Sunday Morning (September 6th) at 3am I woke up with my left arm feeling numb, starting in my armpit and traveling down the inside of my arm all the […]
It was a cool Sunday morning in September last year. My husband, 11 year old daughter and I went cycling with friends on a remote property outside Johannesburg. We were about 3 kms into our ride when I complained that my ears were sore. I thought it was from the cold wind, but after cresting […]
I had been experiencing a few chest pains before, however they were mild and felt like indigestion. So being a busy mum and working full time it was something I kept meaning to get checked. I had planned a walk with my friend and as we were walking the pains started in my chest. This […]
On Friday 22nd May 2015, I had a heart attack. I had woken that Friday morning with a deep ache just behind my left shoulder blade that rapidly turned into a sharp piercing pain. I thought it was due to falling asleep on our couch the night before – our family nickname for our feather […]
I am 49. Last February I was sitting at my desk thinking about going to the gym when I felt this strange pain in the center of my chest. It was so odd and unfamiliar and I hoped it would go away. It didn’t. The pain increased and I was scared so I had my […]
On 4/4/2015, around 2pm, I was cleaning my house getting ready for Easter, when I suddenly felt my right arm, shoulder and neck started to ache and the bone on my throat started to hurt,(hyoid bone- a nerve to the heart runs across this bone). At first, I thought I pulled a muscle. I prayed […]