Home > Medical > Heart Health > Life after heart attack Life after heart attack All sections in Heart » About Heart » Children & Heart Disease » Congenital Heart Disease » Emergency Treatment » FAQs » Diet and your Heart » Health Tips » Heart and Exercise » Heart Attack » Heart Transplants » After a Heart Attack » Multimedia » Heart News » Obesity » Smoking & your Heart » Stress & your Heart » Tests & Procedures » The Heart in Space » Treatment » Women & Heart Disease Learn more about life after a heart attack including advice on heart patient support and information on current heart failure therapy and medication. So you think you can survive a heart attack? Nigel Lythgoe tells his story after suffering a heart attack Even though he was a fit, competition dancer and choreographer, Nigel Lythgoe only realised that he needed to take care of his heart health after suffering a heart attack. Healthy mind, healthy heart Once your heart has been repaired, allow time for healing the mind, says Dr Sharon Frewen, who believes patients should attend at least one session with a psychologist. Taking medication Medication is an essential part of the heart patient’s life, but can be dangerous as well. Here's what you need to know. The spouse: being informed Although the heart patient is in good hands at hospital, the partner will be in charge at home. The spouse: beware of over-protectiveness Being over-protective after your partner’s heart attack could be a serious error. You should support him or her in doing more each day without taking over his or her role. Heart failure therapy may benefit women more than men CRT reduces women's risk of heart failure or death by 60 percent, but only reduces men's risk by 26 percent. Depression can break your heart Depression can be dangerous to someone who has had a heart attack and untreated depression can increase the risk of another attack, writes Prof Piet Oosthuizen. Heart patient: handling stress After a heart attack, your life will necessarily change to a certain degree. The spouse: coping with denial You know your partner is in denial when he/she refuses to believe that the heart attack actually happened. Psychologists would tell you that denial is one way to deal with trauma. Going home: the first few weeks As a heart patient, it's important to resume physical activity when you get home. Although exercise is necessary to prevent another attack, it should be done in moderation. load more
So you think you can survive a heart attack? Nigel Lythgoe tells his story after suffering a heart attack Even though he was a fit, competition dancer and choreographer, Nigel Lythgoe only realised that he needed to take care of his heart health after suffering a heart attack.
Healthy mind, healthy heart Once your heart has been repaired, allow time for healing the mind, says Dr Sharon Frewen, who believes patients should attend at least one session with a psychologist.
Taking medication Medication is an essential part of the heart patient’s life, but can be dangerous as well. Here's what you need to know.
The spouse: being informed Although the heart patient is in good hands at hospital, the partner will be in charge at home.
The spouse: beware of over-protectiveness Being over-protective after your partner’s heart attack could be a serious error. You should support him or her in doing more each day without taking over his or her role.
Heart failure therapy may benefit women more than men CRT reduces women's risk of heart failure or death by 60 percent, but only reduces men's risk by 26 percent.
Depression can break your heart Depression can be dangerous to someone who has had a heart attack and untreated depression can increase the risk of another attack, writes Prof Piet Oosthuizen.
Heart patient: handling stress After a heart attack, your life will necessarily change to a certain degree.
The spouse: coping with denial You know your partner is in denial when he/she refuses to believe that the heart attack actually happened. Psychologists would tell you that denial is one way to deal with trauma.
Going home: the first few weeks As a heart patient, it's important to resume physical activity when you get home. Although exercise is necessary to prevent another attack, it should be done in moderation.