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Suggest Treatment For High Cholesterol & Chest Pain

I am a 46 year old female with CAD with heavy genetic disposition and high cholesterol levels since age 10. Mother died at age 40 of CAD. First stent placement was at 39 and two other stents a year ago. I have continued chest pain and have had two caths which were negative and stents show to be open. Nitro helps the pain but my BP drops and gives me horrible headaches. I am on beta blockers and calcium channel blockers and my md just started me on Imdur. The chest pain can become painful and I hate to go to the MD for pain. How am I to know when it is necessary to go to my MD or ER or not? My pain when I have had blockages and supposedly not had any have felt the same?
Tue, 6 Dec 2016
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hi dear

a pain responding to nitrates can be of cardiac origin
considering your family ghistory your lipid profile and cardiac events earlier , a possibility of this pain to be a stable angina has to be ruled out
i would suggest you to go for a test called stress thallium
a stress thallium is a highly sensitive non invasive test and can rule out cardiac disease in 97% of the cases
i woulsd like to see a copy of your angigraphy reports if possible angiography and plasty video also as many a times the blockage are diffused so major blockage are treated by stents and other diffuse blockages are managed medically
if possible message to me your angiogram reports

i have read medication you are on
as angina and pain is your leading problem
so i would suggest you to add some chronic antianginal medications which are highly efficient

add
trimetazidine 35 mg twice daily(highly efficient does not effects bp of the patient also improves cardiac functions)
nikorandil 10mg twice daily ( a potassium channel opener highly effective in chronic stable angina)
ranolazine 500mg twice daily( very effective in chronic stabl;e angina)
take nitates only for acute chest pain sublingually ( if systolic bp is more then 100mm of hg)

please consult your cardiologist for prescription before starting these medication
thanks
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Suggest Treatment For High Cholesterol & Chest Pain

hi dear a pain responding to nitrates can be of cardiac origin considering your family ghistory your lipid profile and cardiac events earlier , a possibility of this pain to be a stable angina has to be ruled out i would suggest you to go for a test called stress thallium a stress thallium is a highly sensitive non invasive test and can rule out cardiac disease in 97% of the cases i woulsd like to see a copy of your angigraphy reports if possible angiography and plasty video also as many a times the blockage are diffused so major blockage are treated by stents and other diffuse blockages are managed medically if possible message to me your angiogram reports i have read medication you are on as angina and pain is your leading problem so i would suggest you to add some chronic antianginal medications which are highly efficient add trimetazidine 35 mg twice daily(highly efficient does not effects bp of the patient also improves cardiac functions) nikorandil 10mg twice daily ( a potassium channel opener highly effective in chronic stable angina) ranolazine 500mg twice daily( very effective in chronic stabl;e angina) take nitates only for acute chest pain sublingually ( if systolic bp is more then 100mm of hg) please consult your cardiologist for prescription before starting these medication thanks