Hanging after a heart attack.

April 20th this year I had a heart attack. No damage to the cardiac muscle, but 95% block to one artery and 50% in two others, which was slowly but surely slowing me down.

After 5 days in hospital and two stents in my arteries, I’m well on the way to recovery.

Regarding P.E., I have noticed that I’m now 1/16” short of 7” BPEL. This may be physical length loss, or compromised erection quality due to lack of fitness and the shock of the episode and surgery or a combination of both.

The fact remains that I’m now shorter since the episode.

I have struggled with reaction to the meds. I dropped the ace inhibitor entirely as it was giving me dizzy spells, loss of nouns (!) and numbness of my lips and tongue. I have halved the beta-blocker dose and replaced the half with half a tea spoon of Arginine before bed time which has resulted in no effect on my vastly improved blood pressure, which sits at around 120/80 +/- 10% most days.

I have a free blood pressure app on my phone which works perfectly and correlates the one in the drug store, which allows me to monitor throughout the day and confirms that I was vastly over-medicated and the the Arginine works better than the beta-blockers in my case.

I have done little P.E. Since the event and that only light stretching, though sex with my wife has been amazing (she’s glad I’m still alive!). I have had some E.D. Due to fear of my heart exploding (ha ha) which has dissipated as my heart is doing really well.

I hanged 5 pounds this morning for five minutes and had forgotten how much I loved the feeling of hanging, and I’m hopeful that I can slowly return to hanging again and regain some of my lost length.

What caused the block?

I recall you playing football so some physical fitness is expected? Stress over marital issues?

Wow, that is a scary episode. What did they do, stent the 50% arteries and leave the 95% alone? I am surprised they didn’t want to give you a bypass.

Several years ago I started getting angina when exercising and it scared the shit out of me. I am not a fan of doctors so I found solutions for myself doing research on line. Probably the most significant thing I did to improve and reverse my situation was to totally change my diet to dramatically reduce my red meat and saturated/trans fat intake as well as sugar intake and greatly increase fruits and vegetables, fat free products and chicken consumption. I don’t like fish, but that would also have been a highly recommended addition.

I take a lot of supplements that I found by doing research on line that include L-arginine and another important one called nattokinase that acts to thin the blood and I take that in place of the commonly prescribed aspirin a day.

I also exercise a lot more and lost 20 pounds.

Anyways, the result for me is I can now exercise my ass off and the angina is gone.

I know your concerns about your slight loss in penis size, but hope you also have the same interest in improving the blood flow through those arteries of yours.

Good luck!

Oh man!
Wish you best.
Like above post what has been main factor?
Good that there is not much heart damage. Artery can be done, unblocked.

I guess your lenght loss is due to physical and psychical factors.

Genetic propensity for arterial plaque. My father died at 54 from a massive coronary. I’m 53.

Probably stress related as well due to marital issues.

I’m fit as fuck, which doesn’t make things easier.

Just dead-lifted 275 this morning as a tentative return to training. Baby steps.

I have a stent in the 95% blocked artery and in one of the 50% blocked ones, and no coronary muscle damage.

They used stents and said I’m too young for a bypass at 53 given my heart was untouched by the episode.

I have always eaten well and train and play soccer so it won’t take long for me to recover.

I played soccer on Sunday for about an hour in shifts and got tired toward the end, mostly because the beta blocker won’t allow my heart rate above about 140 so I couldn’t sprint much.