Best of luck to your husband. Seems like so many men have prostate trouble these days.
They're probably just better at detecting it. Prostate 'trouble' is just one of those things that most men will experience as we age. Most will die with it, rather than from it if they're fortunate enough to live long enough.
My husband thankfully did not have cancer. It was an enlarged prostate that prevented his bladder from emptying. Probably won’t see improvement from this surgery for many months and now with this heart problem and blood in his urine and all who knows?
This was the thinking
It’s true. My husband’s heart attack was occurring over 5 days! Not something you would think of as a massive heart attack!
I’m just concerned because they took bypass surgery off the table to do the additional stent in another artery instead. And I know there’s a better longevity factor with by-pass, but that choice was eliminated when he had continuing problems after the initial stents were placed.
Things change as the recovery continues. Getting stabilized is the most important thing right now. Hoping for the best for you and him.
The problem I'm stuck with is I've had at least 2 episodes that met the Heart Attack symptoms, once in my early 30s and once in 2025. They were bad enough for me to go to the ER. Both times it was determined after a bunch of tests that it was gas. Granted, I was younger the first time anyway, 44 now, but there's a history of heart attacks on my dad's side so I take it seriously. The problem is of course that at the very least I'm now inclined to take a gas-X or something before heading to the ER.
Thank you. Amazing you had 2 surgeries and thankfully living life! God bless!
I definitely don’t want to hijack this thread so I will try and be brief. I had two chest pain episodes while still on active duty in the military. They did the troponin test and since it came back negative both times they attributed it to exercise and returned me to duty. I was in my 30’s! When I was 43 and retired from the military I ended up having a 5 way bypass after three confirmed heart attacks! My father had died from his second heart attack many years prior to this. I cannot emphasize how important it is for you to find a good cardiologist, now! A good cardiologist will be able to advise and monitor you before you actually need them.
My husband's troponin test results were very low - so low that the hospitalist said that in the past they would have sent him home, but they had changed their guidelines because people were coming back into the hospital with heart attacks within a day or two. Luckily he was in the hospital when he had another event about an hour later. As scary as cancer was, the heart attack scared us even more.
