Unbelievable’: Heart Stents Fail to Ease Chest Pain

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Anybody got one? If so is this the case..........?


A procedure used to relieve chest pain in hundreds of thousands of heart patients each year is useless for many of them, researchers reported on Wednesday.

Their study focused on the insertion of stents, tiny wire cages, to open blocked arteries. The devices are lifesaving when used to open arteries in patients in the throes of a heart attack.

But they are most often used in patients who have a blocked artery and chest pain that occurs, for example, walking up a hill or going up stairs. Sometimes patients get stents when they have no pain at all, just blockages.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/health/heart-disease-stents.html

 

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I had one spot that showed some blockage, it was cholesterol related so it was dissolved by the time they went up my arm. No bruising at all. Some have to go up from the crotch and there is a lot of bruising. Only had angina that one time and they tend to keep you rather than letting you come back later in the day. In my case it seemed important that I fed the pets before going for medical help. ACV is all I need to keep the blood flowing.
I also have two in the arteries that take the blood past my hips. It could be a natural collapse or there is additional pressure on them from complications from an injury that affects my lower back and hips. (based on the cramping in my calves is reduced when taking meds to help that injury) Those ones really do help and it was immediate.