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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2014 23:50:11 GMT
I know two young men that have died from heart attacks. One was 31 and the other was 36. Both, as was found in the autopsies, had undetected congenital heart defect. Both were very fit. One was a professional golf player and the other a Physical Education/Sports teacher.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2014 23:56:47 GMT
I would absolutely attribute it to heredity.
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Post by Zee on Aug 19, 2014 0:05:48 GMT
No way to tell for sure without knowing all the medical facts. It could be either or a combination of both.
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Post by myboysnme on Aug 19, 2014 0:15:49 GMT
My 'healthy' niece just got a defibrillator implanted last week and she is 19 years old. She had an irregular heartbeat and had a heart attack at work. They used an AED and got her heart started. Otherwise she would be dead now.
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Post by annabella on Aug 19, 2014 0:18:17 GMT
I found out she was on serious pain medication for the last 2 years of her life, so her health must have been in decline.
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Post by M~ on Aug 19, 2014 0:18:32 GMT
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Post by raindancer on Aug 19, 2014 0:29:27 GMT
I know someone who had a heart attack from birth control use. At age 24. Besides that statistically we are seeing heart attacks at significantly you get ages than before due to obesity and smoking rates. We are eating ourselves to death at really young ages.
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Post by SuPeaNatural on Aug 19, 2014 1:06:04 GMT
My second son had a massive heart attack when he was 24, which resulted in 10 days in ICU. The ambos and doctors were amazed he survived. Over the next several years he had quite a few more, thankfully they were not as bad as the first one, but enough to hospitalize him for a day or two.
It turned out to be a 'wiring' problem - something he was born with and you only find out you've got it when you have an attack. Nobody else in the family has the condition so it's not something we would ever have looked for. He has had 2 ops to fix it, which the specialist said he did, but son still has chest pains a lot of the time. His doctor says it's muscle spasms, but we've been told to still call the ambulance if it's bad - just in case.
So it can be drugs, it can also be hereditary, caused by a trauma or just one of those unlucky things you're born with that strikes randomly. Just a couple of days ago a fire fighter died after part of a wall fell on him. Of course, he got the injuries from the wall, but the trauma of it caused a massive HA and that's what killed him.
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Post by camanddanismom on Aug 19, 2014 1:14:04 GMT
I had a friend who died at 31 of a heart attack. It was an asymptomatic condition. Such a shock! Left his pregnant wife and young son, so sad!!
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Post by danor98 on Aug 19, 2014 1:17:40 GMT
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Post by lorieann13 on Aug 19, 2014 1:29:26 GMT
High blood pressure. ASD/VSD, defect since birth, etc.
A high school friend just suffered a massive heart attack at age 36. He has had high pressure since he was a kid (genetic condition). He is currently fighting for his life.
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Post by IPeaFreely on Aug 19, 2014 2:16:23 GMT
Annabella, I'm so sorry for your loss. I'm such a cynic my first thought would have been drugs.
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Post by BuckeyeSandy on Aug 19, 2014 2:28:15 GMT
Eating disorders can also contribute to heart failure. I'm sorry for your loss, Annabella. When I was a teen there was a girl that died from a heart attack in her early 20s, came from a large family. She was anorexic and rumored to have been doing drugs as well. Cocaine use, previous or current, can definitely cause a heart attack. As can several medications in combination with drug abuse or alcohol use too.
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Post by AussieMeg on Aug 19, 2014 4:03:01 GMT
A colleague of mine had a massive heart attack while out for a run, he was in his early 40s. He was super fit, no known heart problems, certainly no drugs. Turned out he had an unknown and undiagnosed heart condition. I'm not sure whether it was hereditary or not. He collapsed and a stranger out on a run came across him and did CPR.
He survived but due to loss of oxygen has some permanent brain damage which means he cannot work again. So sad.
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Post by kristalina on Aug 19, 2014 4:27:21 GMT
Oh, your friend passed away, I'm so sorry Annabella. Our community just lost a young man from a heart attack. He had sprained his ankle and developed a blood clot from it, which traveled to his heart. so sad.
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Post by garcia5050 on Aug 19, 2014 4:38:14 GMT
I had a friend pass away at 35. Former marine, in good shape. He had stopped taking his heart medication because he didn't like the way it made him feel. In just one year, his heart had worked so hard that it had become weakened.
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Post by Lexica on Aug 19, 2014 4:49:31 GMT
My son's best friend was in a car accident and was awarded $150,000. He was 23 or so when it happened. Unfortunately, that kind of money at that young age, and no one really looking out for him with it led to bad choices. He did travel a bit, but then he got into drugs. With that kind of money, he bought a lot of drugs. And at 25, he had a heart attack while doing coke.
My son said when he was laying in the ER, terrified that he was going to die, he started praying like he had never done in his life before. I guess he made God some promises about what he would do with his life if he lived. He did live, and he immediately took the rest of his money and used it to begin training to become a minister. He now has completely changed his life around because he thought his life was over.
Annabella, I'm sorry for your loss.
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Post by leftturnonly on Aug 19, 2014 5:09:46 GMT
Wow I didn't realize it was so common. I was just so shocked and saddened by her sudden loss. {{{hugs}}} Those sudden ones are the hardest to come to terms with.
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Post by peasful1 on Aug 19, 2014 6:52:52 GMT
Could be any number of reasons that have nothing to do with behaviour. Why would you automatically assume drug use?
It could be anything from a blood clot in the heart, a defect in the valve or atria, an electrical issue like an accessory path which usually disappears at birth or infancy but didn't and so creates an extra electrical conduit from atria to valve which can cause an arrythmia, a blood flow issue if say there is a leak between the valve and atria...so many things. And so many people are completely asymptomatic and would never know until the first symptom which could be Sudden Cardiac Death.
Symptoms of some heart conditions are fatigue, palpitations, light-headedness, syncope.
DH has a friend who wasn't feeling well for a few weeks. One night after going to the gym, he was feeling particularly off. He debated going home to sleep it off, but drove to the hospital instead. He farted around in the parking lot for a while feeling like a dope and not wanting to be told it's gas or something. But, went in. While in triage, he went into full cardiac arrest. He woke up to someone straddling him performing CCC. Went into immediate surgery to have a stent placed. Had he gone home, he would have died napping. No one else was home at the time.
Active slim man who doesn't smoke or do drugs. I guess it's easier to think it won't happen to you if it's a lifestyle choice, but the reality is many of us who have never had a need for an EKG are walking around with heart problems that we know nothing about.
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Post by DinCA on Aug 19, 2014 8:02:38 GMT
I'm not shocked by everyone's opinion about the cause but I am really shocked that so many have known someone who had a heart attack under the age of 40, particularly the ones in their late teens and twenties.
Annabella, I'm sorry for your loss. Hugs.
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Post by miominmio on Aug 19, 2014 11:23:19 GMT
I would think genetics. My great grandmother on my father's side died in her late thirties, and several of her grandchildren (including my uncle) has suffered from heart attacks before they were 45 (my uncle twice before that age, he survived because he at that time was extremely fit and healthy).
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Post by Nicole in TX on Aug 19, 2014 12:04:57 GMT
So young! I am sorry for your loss!
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Post by auntkelly on Aug 19, 2014 12:36:52 GMT
My father died of a massive heart attack at age 40 in 1964. Although there was no autopsy, I've always assumed it was a combination of smoking, being overweight and stress.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2014 12:55:36 GMT
annabella and everyone else who has experienced a loss: sending you prayers.
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