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.
April 9, 2013
I say I was lucky because in 1999 at the age of 37 years I had a SCAD, yet on that same day I had my only child. It was an isolating time for the first two years, never being able to hear of other SCAD survivors. Then a friend saw a magazine article about […]
Hello, my name is Cathy, I had a heart attack due to SCAD on January 4, 1994. I was sitting on the sofa, feeding my baby, my 2 other children were playing with all their new toys from Santa. The holidays were winding down and there was an ice storm outside, we were having fun, […]
February 18, 2013
I am now 59 years old and have had 3 heart attacks since I was 42 years old. I also went into cardiac arrest in 1999 at 43 years of age. Each time it was a coronary artery dissection.
January 19, 2013
I had my SCAD one year ago this past August 7th. I was standing in church holding my 4mo. old son when I got the most terrible pain in my chest and both forearms. I handed my son to my husband and told him I wasn’t feeling well. I walked to the back of our […]
January 10, 2013
Around 2004, at the age of 52, I experienced heaviness in the chest and stinging in my jaw. Both were so strange my husband took me to the emergency and I was admitted and stayed for 3 days after an angiogram which showed a completely healthy heart but enzymes that indicated a heart attack. After […]
December 20, 2012
I called EMs, then called nebighor to stay with 3 kids since my husband was out of town working. Non smoking, good shape, no history of heart problems EMS had trouble finding anything wrong. At hospital same thing, but on-call cardiologist did ECHO and found slight irregularity. Did 1st Catherterization and put in stent where […]
December 10, 2012
I am 51 yrs old and I’ve had two SCAD’s in the last year. One on the inferal laaetrl branch of the circumflex coronary artery in October 2010 and one on the left anterior descending coronary artery September 2011. I’m in Oregon for those others here After the first one, they put me on a […]
December 5, 2012
Wow, I am so encouraged by this wbtisee!I am 55 yrs old. On Sept. 9, 2011 I had a weird back/and chest pain. After an angiogram I was diagnosed with SCAD, my RCA had a dissection in the smaller vessel so couldn’t be stinted.Upon getting ready for work one morning, I developed back/chest pain’ that […]
November 10, 2012
I am 63 and had two SCAD’s in July 2012, one on July 1 and one on July 7. On July 1, I went for a run and experienced shortness of breath and chest pain. I have exercised regularly for years and the only medications I was taking at the time were for osteopenia, thyroid […]
November 1, 2012
My story of suffering 3 heart attacks at the age of 36 due to SCAD of the LAD can be seen on my website www.sally-bee.com. On the home page there is also a short film that tells my story.