JulienDu;n863665 said:
Hey Nocturne
I think you should grow some balls. Yes as you said, your ****** lifestyle led to your ****** up valve and you were born with a normal and decent Tricupside Aortic Valve whereas most of the people here were born with either a decent Bicupside Valve or a ****** Bicupside valve ( like me ). Don't you think that I should feel cheated by a guy like you ? You had the luck to be born with a perfect valve and you ****** it up by a ****** life style whereas I was born with a ****** valve and had for most of the time a very healthy lifestyle and I have already been through 2 OHS at 29 and I have 2 kids and s 3rd on the way.
Now you are only mild, and you know your lifestyle is garbage. You want to see your kids and grand kids growing up, well you know what to do, change your habits, eat better, move your *** and do not spend hours pitying yourself and you might be surprised by all the good things that will happen to you and I really wish they will, cause unlike many obese people you at least came to realize that being fat ****** you up.
Yes life is unfair, some people have stronger health, some are more idiots and some have bigger dicks but, one thing that a vast majority of human has is their will and a potential to adapt. If you want to move forward, do not jealous your friends but show them that you are less a ****** than them. Pellicle was born with a very severe issue and as a young kid and teenager he never gave up and pushed himself to be as normal as anyone else.
As for your obese friends, maybe your are lucky that you only have a mild heart problem cause they could develop other issues like diabetes, cancers, Osteoarthritis, Gallbladder disease and gallstones... all that can be caused by obesity too.
And you are still much more lucky than most of us, you have a normal valve and the risk for your children to have an abnormal valve will be considerably lower than for our children.
I will repeat, Obesity is a waste of your skin, many people try to find excuse or pretext to be that way in Northern America, this is ********. I even find funny that they think it is a disease ( a few rare cases are maybe ), then I wonder why in Europe they are not that fat ... Fat people often looks pink and healthy but reaching 50 they seem to keep the medical system very busy...
Ah. YOU'RE the one I've been remembering all of this time.
We don't see you post here anymore. I hope you are well.
I want you to know that I think I have a degree of understanding of why someone who was born with a physical heart defect might feel some animosity towards someone who was not, and developed problems due to lifestyle choices.
But you should know that I was also born with a serious problem, that was completely beyond my control. I have two homozygous alleles for high Lp(a), of the type most associated with calcific degenerative aortic valve stenosis. As a result, my Lp(a) is three times the threshold for "extremely high risk" of heart disease -- 390 nmol/L. This has nothing to do with any choices I made in life and everything to do with genetics.
Now the choices I made in life -- although not the worst (I never smoked) -- were not great. No doubt this contributed to my situation. For sure. But they also weren't much different from the ones made by everyone else I knew and associated with. It was a very reasonable expectation that even with my imperfect lifestyle choices, I would be able to avoid heart disease until my 60s or so -- or at least my late 50s.
Now I hope you can believe me that if I had known, from a very young age, as you did, that I was at extremely high risk of developing heart problems, I would have made some different choices in life.
But I did not have the opportunity to know that, because MY condition was completely invisible. Even if I had gone to the doctor regularly, the incredibly high Lp(a) levels would not have been detected, because they are not tested. My mild familiar hypercholesterolemia would probably have been detected, but even if I had lived reasonably well, my LDL cholesterol would have been above 130 -- which is where it got when I kept a VERY healthy diet and exercised every day -- and my doctor would most likely have told me that my levels were "not the best, but OK" (as he did before learning of my CAC score).
As for me being "more lucky" than you -- well, in some senses, yes. But I would argue that what might be worse than knowing you have a condition that puts your heart health at risk from a very young age, could be NOT knowing about it.
Oh, and because I am homozygous, EVERY ONE of my four children has inherited the allele for high Lp(a) from me.
Maybe, in the future, you might stop and consider that there may be more pieces to someone's puzzle than just the ones you can see, or might assume.
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