PaulW
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Registered: 26th Jan 03
Location: Atherton, Greater Manchester
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anyone have any family members who suffer from it?
my mum was rushed into hospital yesterday with chest pains & as she was resting when it came on there treating it as quite severe... she has never had anything like this before...
been reading up on it, but just want to know if anyone else has any family who are long-term sufferers & whats the worst that has happened??
cheers
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Jodi_the_g
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Registered: 7th Aug 01
Location: Washington D.C
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I was born with a heart condition and alhrough i do not have angina the syptoms are the small unforunatly i have an allegry to GTN spray.
PaulW its not reallly a problem provoding you lok after youself and the GTN spray seems to help most of the time. My nan has had it for over 20 years.
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PaulW
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she 'used' to smoke heavily (she now says she is quitting) and is quite overweight...
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Jodi_the_g
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Good information
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CCA
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The normal causes of angina are age,weight and diet but then you need to remember that there are also loads of things that have caused wear and tear on the body.
Its simply the narrowing of the blood vessels, by taking a simple tablet it thins the blood and you should be ok.
My grandad smoked for 45 years, he was diagnosed with angina and 4 years ago had one of his lungs removed but hes fine now and his angina doesnt bother him.
So theres no need to worry and any questions you have can be answered by the doctors or there are loads of leaflets
Hope it helps 
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