What is it like to live with heart disease and stroke?
If you’ve had a stroke or a heart attack or been diagnosed with heart disease or atrial fibrillation, you are not alone.
What challenges might you face? How do you cope with your new reality? Survivors share their personal stories and advice of others who have been there.
Finding help:
How do you deal with a stroke, heart attack or a diagnosis of heart disease?
Survivors provide their thoughts on how to get the help you need, and how to ask the questions you may forget— or be afraid — to ask.
Nobody wants to experience heart attack or stroke.
But going through it can leave you with unexpected wisdom. Survivors share what they’ve learned and how they turned their experience into something positive.
Many can, but for others, pain and physical and emotional challenges can change daily. Survivors share how they are finding their way to a healthy, full life again.
It can be a shock to learn you have atrial fibrillation.
Knowing that it can increase your risk of stroke can be frightening. Learn about the challenges of atrial fibrillation and how patients are coping with their diagnosis, treatments and medications.