How to Fend Off Peripheral Artery Disease

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Oh it's for real...I wish you could feel what I feel. I just ask the Lord for the strength to work each day.

P. Sebree of IN 10:16AM May 04, 2010

I've been told that I have Pad and would like to know what I can do for it rather just walking. I am an 82 year old female and have two false hips and a false knee. I can walk but not very far or for very long. Is there another excercise or other pill than aspirin that I can take to improve the burning pain I have in my right leg and foot.

Enid Shepherd of FL 3:35PM October 04, 2009

Come on people! Learn the subject you are talking about and then make a rational statement about whether it is a hoax or not. Artery disease is one of the most costliest health problems in the world. If you have clogged arteries in your heart why would you not have clogged arteries elsewhere. Cath labs are going five days a week all year long in many, many locations all around the world doing angioplasties and bypass surgeries. The numbers must astounding, the costs have to be mind boggling. Spend a week in a Cardio floor in a hospital and learn about what these bright and skillful Dr.s and nurses are accomplishing in these hospitals. Also learn what the prevailing common denominators are among all these tens of thousands of patients with clogged arteries. Shut up and learn before you make illogical and irresponsible statements. I wish I had before I had my heart attack. Quit making up excuses and stop smoking for heavans sake. You owe that to yourselves and your fellow human beings.

Brad Beemer 7:33PM July 17, 2009

this is the biggest hoax in the pharma's industry, every artery is peripheral,big pharaceuticals make up all kinds of diseases and md's will dispense all kinds of meds.
The "quit smoking" (part of obamas stimulous pkg is a hoax, it allows the makers of chantix which by the way causes users to commit suicide, to have a big slice of the pie.
Believe half of what you read and none of what you hear.
The coalition that Gwen refers to is a website of the pharamaceutical maker.
What a friggen hoax

milli van of FL 10:35AM February 05, 2009

This is is a great story and highlights a largely misunderstood condition. If your doctor is not able or has not performed an ankle-brachial index, ones are available through community-based screening services. One such service, Life Line Screening, operates across the nation. PAD is often asymptomatic, so getting screened is the key to early identification.

Joelle of OH 11:06AM February 02, 2009

The PAD Coalition, an alliance of leading health organizations working to improve the health and health care of people with or at risk for PAD, is coordinated by the non-profit Vascular Disease Foundation (www.vdf.org).
Visit the Coalition's Web site at www.padcoalition.org for more information on the management of PAD. Topics include starting a walking program, managing cardiovascular risk factors, diabetes and PAD, foot care and much more.
Go to www.padcoalition.org

Gwen of MD 3:40PM January 29, 2009

For some of us, regular exercise & strict diet have only a minor effect on cholesterol numbers. What have been most helpful to me, though, are the articles & studies found at www.cholesterolscore.com . It seems that therapeutic doses of niacin, which have been used & studied since the 1950's, have done more than what statin drugs like Crestor promise. From lowering LDL to raising HDL to improving C-reactive protein levels, to lowering triglycerides, to enlarging lipid particle size, to increasing longevity, no other medication has been found to be as effective as niacin. Niacin, though, is very affordable... less expensive than aspirin
There's much written about the therapeutic use of niacin on the website www.cholesterolscore.com . If only half of what's said there is true, then niacin is terribly underused as a medication for improvement of all the blood/lipid numbers. I've been using niacin to control my cholesterol for almost five years. For me, niacin's side-effects became almost undetectable after a couple of months. After having used niacin for several months, my cholesterol numbers improved so much that my doctor suggested that original numbers may have been a testing mistake.

cindyg of FL 8:26AM January 29, 2009