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.
June 2, 2015
I was on the golf course and someone got confrontational with my husband, myself, and my neighbor. The person screamed in my face and scared me so much that I wound up with Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy. I was taken by ambulance to the emergency room where they were treating me. I don’t remember anything but my […]
May 26, 2015
I have inflammation. I want to say that, first. If I die from another SCAD, I want people to link research with these attacks to inflammation. I have severe pain from inflammation in my hands, etc. I have for many years. I attribute it to RA (or immune response). I am otherwise healthy. I am […]
May 9, 2015
Hello, I am a 50 year old African American female, recently separated with 2 grown children. I suffered a heart attack from a tear in my circumflex artery 7am October 2nd 2014. I’ll never forget this date. My life hasn’t been the same since. My story is similar to many others I’ve read here on […]
Sorry this is so long. I tried to post this on March 28th on my one year SCADiversary. One year ago today, I suffered a horrible event in my life. I had a heart attack due to SCAD, Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection, at the age of 48 with “NO” warning signs. Mark and I had […]
April 13, 2015
In June 2012, I received the worst phone call of my life. My auntie had called and asked me to come to the hospital right away, and that it was about my mum. She wouldn’t tell me what had happened over the phone and that made me fear the worst. My thoughts raced thinking about […]
March 31, 2015
After two boys, we were pleasantly surprised when the doctor told us we were going to have a girl. She arrives quite early while my husband was out of the country. Despite being a preemie she was doing well. Fast forward to college…we try to take a family vacation every year, which isn’t always easy […]
March 28, 2015
On March 6, 2015, my family and I went from complete exhilaration to panic. Many family and friends were attending the MN State High School Hockey Tournament at the Xcel Center in St. Paul, MN to watch our son play with his high school team Duluth East. The team had just beat one of their […]
I am 42 year old mother of 3 and last year after working all day in the office I went home and decided to do a workout DVD. About an hour into working out I had the worst pain in my throat and my esophagus which was also in my back too. I thought I […]
Eighteen years ago I had my first SCAD at age 42 involving the left anterior descending artery at a time when I was under immense stress and fatigue. Fortunately, once the “clot was busted” with TPA, my vessel was open, so it was treated medically with no stenting. I thought by managing my stress and […]
February 22, 2015
I am 54, healthy and relatively fit – by that I mean pre-SCAD I was jogging up to 5 miles a pop. To start at the beginning – May 22nd, I was home alone when I experienced chest pains and nausea in the evening. I laid down and waited 30 minutes or so and it […]