MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'fatigue after heart attack'. Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:30:12 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2458187&cid=t_244667_111_f&fid=36048&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAHeartyLife%2F%7E3%2FDedSv3aWBdc%2F If you have had a heart attack (a myocardial infarction ), chances are you’ve been living with exhaustion and fatiuge - sometimes extreme exhaustion - since your heart attack. If it helps, you’re not the only one. It seems that exhaustion is common after having a heart attack and it often makes people think that their whole situation is chronic. Researchers say that around half of the patients in their study of 200 patients said that they felt quite fatigued still 4 months after their heart attack. Interestingly, what the patients reported was that the fatigue was new and different, not like what they had experienced before. The exhaustion wasn’t connected to anything particular, such as increased activity or staying up late, but that it could strike at any time at all. Y... A Hearty Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2458187 Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:00:11 +0100 2458187