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What Can Be Done To Prevent A Young Person From Dying Of Natural Causes?
Posted on 3/14/17 at 9:31 am
Posted on 3/14/17 at 9:31 am
I just got a phone call that a good friend of mine passed away last night at 33. He wasn't a drug user and he wasn't overweight and had no medical issues. They dont suspect suicide or anything. I guess we will know after the autopsy what caused it but what can a person do other than get their physical annually to attempt to prevent such things? Is it more we need EKG's, ultrasounds, and stress tests at a cardiologist or is it just something that isn't preventable?
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Posted on 3/14/17 at 9:34 am to dabigfella
it's the circle of life man. I am sorry for your loss but sometimes there are things that can't be controlled.
Posted on 3/14/17 at 9:34 am to dabigfella
Probably nothing. I had a cousin die at 27 with no known cause. They said he rolled over in the morning to pet his dog on the floor and fell out of bed dead. He was newly married. Terrible situation.
Posted on 3/14/17 at 9:34 am to dabigfella
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friend of mine passed away last night at 33.
Preexisting condition from birth? You can take medical tests all day every day and not catch what ends up killin you.
Posted on 3/14/17 at 9:35 am to dabigfella
That's tough. Sorry man. I knew a few guys in high school that died like that- one to cancer, one to a car accident.
I am not sure what can be done to fix that. People that young are supposed to be more or less invincible.
I am not sure what can be done to fix that. People that young are supposed to be more or less invincible.
Posted on 3/14/17 at 9:35 am to REB BEER
Yup. Girl I went to high school with had an aneurysm eating cereal in the morning.
Boom. Dead.
Boom. Dead.
Posted on 3/14/17 at 9:36 am to dabigfella
Literally nothing. It's just part of life. The heart is a fickle thing
Posted on 3/14/17 at 9:37 am to dabigfella
at 33 with no other health concerns and if he seemed overall healthy, there's not much a dr would do other than blood work, a general wellness exam/physical.
Posted on 3/14/17 at 9:37 am to dabigfella
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just something that isn't preventable
Most likely. I had a friend die at 29 from a congenital circulatory condition. He had a knot of blood vessels in the base of his brain that just grew wrapped up around each other. One day the knot got too tight and burst, giving him an aneurysm.
Posted on 3/14/17 at 9:37 am to dabigfella
when your number gets called, it is called and not a whole lot you can do about it.
This post was edited on 3/14/17 at 9:38 am
Posted on 3/14/17 at 9:38 am to dabigfella
Sorry for your loss.
I had a chic friend who was having stomach cramps, thought her period was coming on. Took some medicine went to bed and never woke up. She ended up having an aneurysm in her stomach while she was sleeping.
I had a chic friend who was having stomach cramps, thought her period was coming on. Took some medicine went to bed and never woke up. She ended up having an aneurysm in her stomach while she was sleeping.
Posted on 3/14/17 at 9:39 am to dabigfella
Wally Pontiff died of a genetic heart disease, he was the beacon of health, so they thought
Posted on 3/14/17 at 9:41 am to dabigfella
If it was HOCM(hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy), you can get an echo as a non-invasive test to diagnosis it.
Posted on 3/14/17 at 9:43 am to dabigfella
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What Can Be Done To Prevent
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Dying Of Natural Causes
Nothing
Posted on 3/14/17 at 9:44 am to dabigfella
Better and more routine physicals.
Posted on 3/14/17 at 9:47 am to dabigfella
Some things just can't be prevented. When it's your time, it's your time. Sorry for your loss.
Posted on 3/14/17 at 9:48 am to dabigfella
As others have noted, you can't stop all causes. There's always some random thing that can get you.
A former running buddy miraculously survived having the inner lining of his jugular just peel off into the bloodstream. He was standing in front of a subway stop (Foggy Bottom metro for the curious) that is just a few yards from GWU hospital, one of the leading cardiac hospitals in the country. Nurses and doctors are walking around all the time there on their way to/from work, so he had medical help within seconds and was in surgery basically as quickly as possible.
If not for that, he'd have been dead very quickly.
A former running buddy miraculously survived having the inner lining of his jugular just peel off into the bloodstream. He was standing in front of a subway stop (Foggy Bottom metro for the curious) that is just a few yards from GWU hospital, one of the leading cardiac hospitals in the country. Nurses and doctors are walking around all the time there on their way to/from work, so he had medical help within seconds and was in surgery basically as quickly as possible.
If not for that, he'd have been dead very quickly.
Posted on 3/14/17 at 10:00 am to TheAlmightySmash
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Preexisting condition from birth? You can take medical tests all day every day and not catch what ends up killin you.
You're right. My heart condition that came within a whisker of killing me this past November was from a defect in my heart that had been there since birth. But growing up I played sports, even joined the army and never knew I had a ticking time bomb in my chest. It had been there for 46 years and only last summer did symptoms start to show.
Posted on 3/14/17 at 10:07 am to dabigfella
brain aneurysms .........
Posted on 3/14/17 at 10:07 am to Darth_Vader
bullshite Darth. Don't you have a bicycle to peddle or something?
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