I feel that we must be very careful regarding self diagnosis but just as stress, emotional times, loss and even beneficial drastic changes can bring physical reactions and the heart wouldn't be immune? Just as an active, physically demanding career could result in knee replacements, back, shoulder and foot surgery, daily stress would logically and could reasonably cause some undesired results regarding the heart. 😎

Thanks Caryn! I also watched the videos that followed this one and learned even more about Takutsubo Cardiomyopathy …leading to my self diagnosis!

When I first became aware in the hospital in 2021 that I had had a Silent Heart Attack (which was ludicrous to me at the time) I was also diagnosed with Idiopathic Cardiomyopathy! They had No Idea what caused it! I now think that I do…in 2014 my Mom made the decision to move to Assisted Living because she felt that my caring for her had become too stressful for me! It was So stressful for me to move her and get her comfortable…then to find a place for me to live…but the MOST stressful part of this time was emptying the house that my Mom had lived in that my father had built for us! I was in a constant state of shock and Severe Stress! Even though I had people helping me I would sometimes have to go out to my studio and scream in to a pillow to quell my heartbreak…frustration and anger and grief! Ioved our house! My Dad had made sure that it was Easy to get around in and that the doors were 38 inches wide to accommodate Emergency Care…I had designed a ramp out of the front door that was crowned with a Small Pergola so it was attractive as well! I had lived there with my parents and my only child since 1990…I was a Single Bi-Polar Mom who had the presence of mind to realize that I couldn’t do it Alone! So Most of my memories of Kelsey’s childhood were attached to that house! All the pets that we had loved and lost…and the devastating loss of my father in 1997 due to heart disease and depression…All of my memories from 1990 to 2014 were attached to our home and our lives together! And my Mom had made the decision to leave it…force Me to leave it…and to Sell it! I am quite sure now that the two trips to the ER during that time were my silent heart attack happened and I was sent away with diagnosis of Stress…No Sh*T…I will be discussing this with my Cardiologist next visit to see if he concurs that my unnamed Cardiomyopathy is in fact Takatsubo’s! It would be a huge relief to me to have a name for it! What do you folks think?

Hi Caryn i have a diagnosis of this. That is what they said was happening when my heart stopped and they did the cpr to get me going again. It is your heart changing its shape due to stress and trauma in your life. I think that also my mitral valve repair completely failed also at that point. I had so much going on emotionally my heart could not take it anymore. Im here to talk about it so you can come back from it. Im very careful now to not get so overwhelmed with life. I have had some short term counseling a couple of times and i have gone back to church. It seems to help me.

Paula

Thank you carol