I thought I was 2 years away from a heart attack

[FancyFeast]

The past 6 years of my life has been a constant struggle.  It all comes down to my circulation.  I have had tons of pains in my hands, feet and even chest.

I was pretty positive it was a heart defect.

This past 6 months, it has gotten A LOT worse.  I couldn't even work out, I would wake up in the night with numb limbs, a racing heart.  I couldnt take hot showers, I had to stop drinking coffee. 

I'm 30 years old.  I am not overweight, but I knew I was going to die.  NO doctor could tell me what was wrong, they said it was stress.  But it wasn't.

Either I had diabetes or my heart was fucked.
My tryglycerides, were at a time, at 170.  I was on a medication that increased them for a while.  I went off the medication, my tryglycerides went down to 120.  I felt better.  This was about 2 years ago.

Now I'm feeling way worse than I ever did, but my blood tests never mentioned that they went back up.  I had mine checked last week.  It was up to over 220.


So I've been taking an herbal equivelant of a statin, to bring down my bad cholestorals.

What a difference.  My feet, my chest, my head.  The pain is being replaced by an actual feeling of flowing blood.  I'm going to stay on this regimine for 12 to 24 weeks, 2 pills a day.  It is called guggul, it raises good cholestoral too.

I thought my life was over.  I really did.  I just need to avoid sweets(which I do already) alchol and carbs.  I started drinking more in the past 2 years, if you have this issue the liver cant break down fat when it is breaking down alcohol or sugar.   So I just need to clean myself out with this guggul and stay on a strict diet.  More greens, fruits.  I already eat very healthy, but I eat a lot of carbs.

Strange world.  My dad and aunt both have this, luckily they kept it a secret from me all these years.  It may have actually helped me get this resovled sooner..... 

[brawndolicious]

good luck.  what are you supposed to do after 3-6 months of taking guggul?

[FancyFeast]

good luck.  what are you supposed to do after 3-6 months of taking guggul?

Watch what I eat.  No more drinking for the most part.  The guggul will strip out the shit clogging up my system.  I already feel 100% better after 4 days on it.  After it cleans out the blood steam, it goes for the veins and rotoroots them.  It pretty much is a statin.(like lipitor).

I just need to stick to veggies, fruit, minimal amounts of meat(white meat).  Hardly any drinking  =(....  No sugars, which I avoid anyways.

Exercise, which I was having a hard time doing.  I can't wait till that is possible, I mean to get a real good workout.  But man, I am feeling good.

[bork]

Glad to see you're feeling better!  I know how you feel about going to doctors and having them not be able to figure out what's wrong.    

Due to some of my health problems, it was highly recommended that I don't drink, either.  This has led to me getting some shit in social situations in the past.  I can't really drink coffee anymore either; last year after I started drinking some coffee and tea on a daily basis, my pulse would get affected and I had to go to the doctor several times before I realized it was the caffeine that was likely doing this to me.  I stopped drinking it and the problems vanished.  I do enjoy sodas but I really need to get the hell off those,too.