Originally Posted by Leshar

Snoozy, like the others, I am very glad that you checked in and that you are doing ok.
I'm so sorry that you are going through this.

I'm not doing so well, very upset and can't stop crying. I saw the cardiologist today, and he says I do have coronary artery disease. There is plaque formation on my right carotid artery. I said I didn't think I had risk factors, there is no family history of heart disease, and he said but there is of stroke (my dad and uncle) and that it is all the same. He said my cholesterol was raised but he didn't think diet had a big part to play when I asked him about changing my diet. He said, it's just bad genes, bad luck. He's started me on a cholesterol lowering drug and nitroglycerin sub lingual when I get the chest pain and baby aspirin daily.
I'm just so upset. I feel I've been dealt enough blows in the health department, I don't know how to cope with this. I've no-one to share this with, other than you guys, so thanks for listening. I just think of my friend's husband, in Mexico, who has diabetes and he's an alcoholic, in my opinion, overweight, smokes, never exercises, and he's the one pushing my buttons about not drinking, surely drinking would contribute to heart disease. I feel very cheated, to be honest, but I don't feel like drinking. Just depressed and don't feel able to do much to get out of this funk, just want to go back to bed, which is wrong, I know, but I have very little joy in life and now this.