
I've had high blood pressure and diabetes for a long time, yet I take all the medication I'm given, but it doesn't work. Several times during the year, 3 or 4 times, I had to go to the emergency room, because I was very short of breath with water in my lungs and my blood pressure at 20 [...]

This week, I'm celebrating the third anniversary of my "heart story", and it's a good time to talk about it because yes, really, it's quite a story! Everything changed for me at the age of 43, on June 2, 2019. That Sunday, I literally ended up out of breath in the emergency room of the [...]

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 [...]