
I'm a keen runner, doing 2-3 cool jogs a week, and hiking in the mountains. 2 years ago, at the start of a run, a violent pain accompanied by nausea in my sternum forced me to stop. Breathless and unable to speak, my left side was caught in a vice. At first, I think it's a cramp under the [...]

I am Dutch and have lived in Toulouse since 1994. In January 2018, in the middle of the night, I had a heart attack by SCAD (Spontaneous Coronary Dissection). I couldn't understand it: I thought I was strong, athletic and healthy. How could this happen to me? I was lucky enough to live 5 minutes [...]

It all started one day in June 2017 with a fairly severe shortness of breath that I initially blamed on my excess workload. After much hesitation, I had to go and see a cardiologist at the Centre Hospitalier de A. where I work as a care assistant. After routine tests, the first "verdict" was: "high [...]

Often tired as soon as I woke up, I consulted different doctors on several occasions, who treated me for anxiety and stress. I was astonished because I had no reason to stress, but the doctors were unanimous, so I stopped wondering. So I endured what I described as tetany attacks: I felt oppressed [...]

On October 1, I had a violent pain in my chest when I arrived at work. It was unbearable. I rushed to the nearest emergency room. It really hurts. The people in front of me in the waiting room put me ahead of them, because they see how much pain I'm in. The doctor in charge makes an immediate [...]

At the age of 31, I was diagnosed with arteriopathy of the lower limbs, with pain on walking, probably due to a favorable hereditary background as well as the use of contraception with synthetic estrogens and heavy smoking. Stenting of my primitive iliac artery and dilatation of my internal iliac [...]

In 2008, I had pain on walking in my left leg. Ultimately, I had stenosis of the femoral artery. I hesitated before undergoing angioplasty. I was very afraid of the procedure. I was wrong, because 3 days after the operation I was walking normally again. A year later, I had the same problem in my [...]

I am the mother of a 10-month-old boy. During my pregnancy, I was diagnosed with fibromuscular dysplasia (a disease of the connective-elastic tissue of the arteries), which led to renal artery stenosis. After a first month that went well, in the second month I started to have regular headaches, [...]