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.
October 30, 2012
My cardiologist just informed me of this group. It’s good to know that SCAD is becoming more visible to the medical profession. I think I was very lucky to have an amazing doctor on call when I came in to the emergency room with severe chest pain – my guardian angel! While he did not […]
October 28, 2012
My condolences to your family in your loss. I just celebrated one year of life after my SCAD! So happy to be here! Thank you for your efforts to raise money for SCAD research!! It’s a small world. I live in Naperville. Please feel free to contact me.
October 21, 2012
I am thrilled to be a SCAD survivor as a 34-year old mother of 3-year old twins and a 4-year old. I suffered SCAD of my LAD on 2/5/12 on the second day of my menstrual cycle. I was hospitalized for 3 days, placed on Metropolol, Plavix and baby aspirin – the hope was that […]
October 19, 2012
I just learned about this web site today. I had a SCAD in 1995 at age 50. I have been fortunate and have had no further cardiac events. I am fully active, taking care of animals, working in the woods, hiking some trails. I am a Family Physician (retired ’09) and at the time of […]
October 18, 2012
I know that most SCAD attacks are in women, but on Sunday, January 22, 2012, my 57 yr old husband had a heart attack from SCAD in THREE arteries. Does anyone else know of any men with this condition?? So far, in all of my googling, I haven’t found one yet. That Sunday morning, my […]
October 16, 2012
The week from hell started with my brother that I was very close to and was looking too for the male role model in my kid’s life, (due to their dad, my husband having a brain tumor) dying on Tuesday Nov.28th 2006 after a 9 day battle of AML Leukemia. He was ok one day […]
October 15, 2012
I have had 2 episodes of SCAD. The first one was attributed to my contraceptive pill and after leaving hospital on medication ‘just in case’ they said I was no more likely to have any more heart trouble than anyone else and the dissection would heal itself with no need for stenting or anything. I […]
October 13, 2012
I had a SCAD heart attack 4 days ago. I am 43 with no history of heart trouble and I was exercising vigorously three times a week. My last pregnancy was five years ago I am still in shock and very afraid it will happen again.
October 12, 2012
Thank you Bob and family for this wonderful website and for supporting SCAD research! My SCAD was in 2003, after the birth of my second son. I was 38 and had a “widow maker” tear at the fork of the LAD, so had double bypass surgery. Today, it feels as though all that happened to […]
October 11, 2012
I had my first SCAD 7 days after the birth of my second child. I received a stent in my second diagonal. I had my second SCAD 17 days post partum and received 3 stents in my LAD. I had a third narrowing and was transported to a larger hospital because they feared it would […]