[–] marymarynotcontrary 1 point 5 points 6 points (+6|-1) ago
Aortic aneurysm are usually due to birth defects WHICH CAN USUALLY BE SCREENED FOR and corrected but pretty much never are. They're rare enough that people dropping dead of them is considered okay.
[–] SurgicalShitlord 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
Risk factors for aortic aneurysms:
Only four genetic reasons on the above list. Everything else is controllable by lifestyle choices. Screening (abdominal ultrasound) is recommended in 65+ smokers only and will only pick up abdominal aortic aneurysms. The above example sounds like a thoracic or aortic root aneurysm. That's a bad one. Hope your friend is OK, @orange-avocado
[–] FPHrefugee 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Not just Ehlers Danlos type IV but also the classical subtype I and II
[–] marymarynotcontrary 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Sorry, I meant in youngish, reasonably healthy people. This just isn't something that should be happening to them. I get so annoyed at people dying from undiagnosed issues that are easy to see. The conditions that you have from birth usually present with a thin/bulging aorta loooong before an aneurysm/dissection. And the dissections almost always happen to people who don't have coronary disease but something you can't do anything about...except surgery when you see the bulge to prevent the dissection.
Everything not genetic takes years and years to do damage. For example, smokers don't have aortic aneurysms under 50 or so unless they are ALSO fat.
Nope, they are almost always a result of aging/shitty lifestyle. I went through almost 6 months of vascular/general surgery in med school and residency, and have also had some patients with AAAs in my practice, and not a SINGLE aneurysm I've dealt with was related to Marfan's or some other genetic condition. ALWAYS smoking and shitty eating/"metabolic syndrome" combined with older age.
[–] FPHrefugee 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I know several people with Ehlers Danlos as well as myself. I have yearly echos to check for aortic root dialation.
[–] FPHrefugee 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
omg An AA is like one of my biggest fears having Ehlers Danlos.
Wish him good health, and please please tell him to check if he has a genetic condition. If he's in good shape, that's pretty rare to have.
[–] BonesTheJester 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
A few years back my dad was helping his dad clear up some trees that had fallen on a power line, and he fell off the ladder onto the line and got a pretty intense shock. He's fine, but the doctor told him he probably would have died had he not been in great shape, since most people's hearts can't handle that amount of electricity going through them. Fat people are not equipped to survive.
[–] GuyFieriGlitterFarts 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I've been a lurker here for months but a regular of fatlogic. Today a nurse posted about a patient dying because no one could get a tube down this fat throat or reach his heart for compression through all the blubber and he died. A few people gave her shit over it. And she apologized. She didn't kill him. His fat did. He killed himsef but as a nurse she's suppose to feel bad. I'm so happy your friend is okay!! But you're completely right being fat makes every issue harder and it'll kill you.
[–] DammitMoonMoon 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Yay! I credit my top physical conditioning for not dying and excellent recovery after a ruptured brain aneurysm. I mean, aside from the miracle of modern medicine. Even the doctors agreed most people would have died with what happened to me. When that happened I had been a gym rat for 2 years doing body pump classes, then did the full P90X workout.
Shitlords and Shitladies, not only are you preventing disease by not becoming oreogres, you are prepping your body for battle in case it ever has to fight for your life.
[–] Acidfog 0 points 14 points 14 points (+14|-0) ago
first of all wish your friend a good recovery from me pls.
bad things are things that happen to other people. most people think that way which is why stories like these rarely motivate people to actually do anything.
[–] TunaAndCucumbers 0 points 8 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago
Don't forget the fats that get limbs amputated, yet still keep right on eating themselves into a grave. Bad things happen directly to them, and it doesn't change their mindset.
[–] Acidfog 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
by the time they lose limbs it's already too late and they stop giving a fuck, the only thing they then do is blogging on tumblr to downplay their pre-mortem depression