My husband was diagnosed in october with ppms we are coming to terms with this but he now has had a heart attack so now scared as i read his life expactancy has now dropped to less than 5yrs any help or info would be appriciated thank you
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My goodness – I’m sorry that you are both having such a dreadful time of it. I hope that your husband recovers well from the heart attack. I don’t know where you’ve got those life expectancy numbers from, but if they aren’t directly from the doctor and about your husband in particular, I wouldn’t set too much store by them. You’ll both have your hands full with treatment and recovery and cardiac rehab and getting back to some sort of normality. That’s quite enough by itself.
Like Alison100 I am wondering what has caused you to think that your husband has less than 5 years to live? I guess the two of you have a lot to deal with including treatments for MS and heart conditions. I very much hope that with those treatments your husband has a good number or years of enjoyable life ahead
Hello. I know very little about heart conditions but am now wondering if your husband has been told he has ‘heart failure’?. Having looked up heart failure I see that over a third of patients will live beyond 10 years and there are things, mainly lifestyle changes, that can slow down progression.
If it’s not heart failure then , so far as I know , it’s not possible to say that following a heart attack someone has less than five years.
Either way and sorry to be so matter of fact , lifestyle changes (diet etc, exercise , reducing alcohol intake - and definitely stop smoking) could help slow down the MS, prevent future heart attacks, and slow down progression of heart failure.
I wish you and your husband all the best
Hi there,
So sorry to hear about the issues you’re facing, please try not to worry, you husband will see and he’ll then worry about you (easy to say - hard to do I know) just take things one step at a time. I have a good friend who always says ‘it’s not a problem until it’s a problem’ and I have to admit I have said this to myself so many times since my MS diagnosis.
Focus on getting hubby back to feeling like himself, and celebrate the small things each day. Since MS I celebrate the small wins like getting through a day without tripping over, or slurring my words. Sounds silly, but it can make so much difference.
Wishing you all the very best for the coming months, and if you need to vent this forum is an awesome place, with wonderful people who will offer support and advice, or just listen (read) which can mean so very much at difficult times.
AT x
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