Nitro spray
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I have Prinzmetal and my doctor gave me Nitro spray for when I have an attack, unfortunately it does not work for me. Acturally none of the meds he has put me on helped. I'm curious is there anyone else that does not get relief with nitro spray and if so what do you use that helps?
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Here is my med regime trying to get me to the 22nd to saty or of ER
6 am Imdur 120, Nicardipine 60, omeprazole, L-arginine
before I get out of bed Nitro spray & isosorbide dinitrate 20
10 am Verapamil , Diltiaziam 120, POTASSIUM , pyridoxine, multivitamin, magnesium, Prednisone
2 pm niCARdipine 60, Imdur 30 L-arginine (if BP running lower 50 Nacradipine instead of 60)
10 pm isosorbide dinitrate 40,, niCARdipine 50
The meds are all aimed at stopping the Spasm or slowingmy heart down because I have Tachycardia as well. Now I am the only patient they have had to throw all these at. At 41 Cardizem (diltiazem) held me for years. Then I started having issues 2010 and they switched me to Verapimil. that worked until 2012 when thye hypoxia & tachycardia took off. MY EKG when no spams is 100% normal. During spasms I no loner get high ST sue to be on all the meds. They see ST invert then swithc back, ST flatten,it will indicate variious past MI's, heat blocks of variosu kinds etc. all thes eare indicative of Ischemia. Does your nitro lessen the pain at all? Mine the pain goes down soem then wil come back up. At tiems I have beeen in ICU up to 1 week on NIRO drip at 65 to keep me pain free until it calmed down enough to take me off the drip. As the spams saty spasming the worse the endothelial dysfunction gets. Yhe L-argien is an over the counter supplement that can help the endothelial dysfunction which is what causes the Spasms.
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Enhanced external counterpulsation (EECP) alleviates cardiac symptoms by enhancing coronary collateral circulation—alternate pathways by which blood can blood can reach the heart muscle. The procedure is performed in a series of outpatient treatments, in which inflatable cuffs wrapped around the legs inflate and deflate in rhythm with the patient’s heartbeat.
More than 100 published studies show that EECP can effectively relieve symptoms of heart failure, increase exercise tolerance, reduce reliance on medication, and improve quality of life. Sicne I have recently been disabled due to the issues we are going thru all the thigns that can help me.
samuels cher42845
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I've become tolerant to the spray regardless of how long it's in my system, In one severe attack I can have 18 sprays before I call for an ambulance, it is only just still working with each spray but only lasting a minute at a time by then, with 18 sprays my blood pressure still sits around the 160/90. I have read in writings by different cardiologists and in their own opinions GTN spray usually won't stop a prinzmetl angina attack and same for the long acting nitrates as our bodies build up an immunity to them because it's pretty well in our system all the time in either tablet form or spray, cardiologists opinions vary on this scenario. they say the calcium channel blockers seem to work the best (Diltiazem, Cardizem, etc etc) some old school cardio's say the beta blockers work just as well if not better than calcium channel blockers, depending on what else is wrong with the heart.
I've just had a review and they tell me there's nothing more to offer other than increasing a pill and a possibility of being put on a beta blocker, my cardiologist did want me to have a treatment called , now don't quote me on this but it sounded like he said " dorsal fin stimulation" from our hospitals pain management clinic, the pain management clinic got in touch with me to see what I wanted to do as our public hospital doesn't perform this procedure due to it's high cost, $30,000 AUD, and since I don't have private health insurance that treatment was debunked, how ever my old school cardio said it probably wouldn't of helped anyrate, there was also talk about tennes treatment (stimulation to relieve pain) I was reading the other day that even this kind of treatment is questionable in any kind of pain management and they believed it held no therapeutic value.
samuels cher42845
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However you did use a phrase that my old school cardiologist said he was going toperform when he does the next angiogram, they are going to see if my blockage has gotten any better or worsened, but he said that he is going to do the reverse of this procedure that you had done, that's why I said a phrase that you used rang a bell with me.....measure the flow to see if there is any flow deviations and do a flow pressure via angiogram.
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I'm like you this is so getting old....
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