Re: girlsaylor: Regarding my cartoid endarectomy

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girlsaylor:I had been in the hospital because of chest

pains and they did a cartoid ultrasound and found that

the left cartoid artery was clogged about 75-80%. The

cartoid surgeon told me to come into his office in a

couple of weeks and we would talk more about my

situation. I tried going back to work, but I just was

not feeling good at all. I was having passing out

spells all the time, things just did not seem right to

me. I call the surgeon's office and asked if I could

move my appointment up. I went into see him and he

told me that there was another test he wanted done so

I had the Angiogram. The Angiogram showed it was

blocked 80-85%. So surgery was scheduled and my left

cartoid artery was cleaned out and I missed three

weeks of work. The surgeon told me after he did the

surgery that the artery was clogged more than he had

expected it to be. He had to do a longer incision to

get all of the artery cleaned out. I have to go back

to him in a year and half to two years to have the

Ultrasound done again and possibly another angiogram.

I told him I would do the Ultrasound again, but I

would not do the angiogram again because I thru a

blood clot a couple days after the angiogram. Right

now I am not having any problems as far as the cartoid

arteries are concerned. The only real problems I am

having is with my Fibromyalgia and Lupus.

Sharon H.

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> girlsaylor:I had been in the hospital because of chest

> pains and they did a cartoid ultrasound and found that

> the left cartoid artery was clogged about 75-80%. The

> cartoid surgeon told me to come into his office in a

> couple of weeks and we would talk more about my

> situation. I tried going back to work, but I just was

> not feeling good at all. I was having passing out

> spells all the time, things just did not seem right to

> me. I call the surgeon's office and asked if I could

> move my appointment up. I went into see him and he

> told me that there was another test he wanted done so

> I had the Angiogram. The Angiogram showed it was

> blocked 80-85%. So surgery was scheduled and my left

> cartoid artery was cleaned out and I missed three

> weeks of work. The surgeon told me after he did the

> surgery that the artery was clogged more than he had

> expected it to be. He had to do a longer incision to

> get all of the artery cleaned out. I have to go back

> to him in a year and half to two years to have the

> Ultrasound done again and possibly another angiogram.

> I told him I would do the Ultrasound again, but I

> would not do the angiogram again because I thru a

> blood clot a couple days after the angiogram. Right

> now I am not having any problems as far as the cartoid

> arteries are concerned. The only real problems I am

> having is with my Fibromyalgia and Lupus.

>

> Sharon H.

>

> I want to know what on earth they did when you threw the clot??? A

friend had tests and I can't remember exactly what happened or the

sequence, but someone at the DR's office missed some information and

she threw a clot and almost died from it, then it was discovered that

when they cleared a femral artery, they used a material that should

only be used on older patients, so she had to go have surgery again

to have new material used to replace the first.

But what has been bugging me for several years is that for a number

of years, I would have to schedule an ultra sound of my cartoid

artery (also the left one) but my present doctor, who very well may

have been the second one to send me in to have it check, never seems

to see that in my charts. Of course, I can't be certain how much

info the practice I saw between the time I first saw her and then

began going to her again, sent when they sent her my records.

Although, she can seem rather scattered and not as on top of things

as she was in the past --- which does concern me, except that we are

moving in 5 months (can only hope nothing serious happens in that

time!)

>

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