Hello! My Dad is 77, just suffered a major heart attack a week ago Friday. They couldn t go in and do anything for him do to an ulcer (they were afraid it bleeding out after a stent being put in do to the blood thinner he would have to be on). He went in on a Friday night, the bad enzyme level continued to rise for about 24 hrs (highest was 27), then started to come down. They did a cath on that following Monday to find that the artery 100% blocked and decided they couldn t put a stent in due to it possibly rupturing the damaged part of the heart. He s being doing fairly well, went in for an echo today and meets with the heart dr. this upcoming Monday. For some reason, he thought they had put a stent it and when he found out yesterday that they had not, he made the comment no wonder his heart felt funny. He told my sister today that he has these little electric shock feelings in his chest. Is this just a result from the blockage, or something that we need to see about prior to his appt. w/the heart dr. on Monday?
Hey a stent is a foreign body which bis inserted into the body our body is a closed environment it takes one time for the body to adapt to new changes done inside ITAs stent will take 4 weeks to make the body comfortable and adopted for it mild currents tingling numbness are ok and a usual phenomenon just get an ECG done and compare the post stent ECG with this ECG if there are no fresh issues in ECG then It's nothing to worry about as your doctor to add some benzodiazepines for 2,3 weeks to your father meds as this will held him to overcome his hidden anxiety which is very usual post heart attack!!!!