The sleeper of sudden death

Ben Gadot

We just got news of a neighbour dropping dead in his 30s. He had no history of illness. I'm wondering how common this is so share your stories.

Turtyturd

Hasn't happened to my neighbours.

bodhrandude

Its happened a lot in a lot of sports if I recall, folk dropping dead during a game.

More than likely Sudden Adult Death Syndrome, it is believed to be mostly genetic and you can get screened for it although currently the test must be sent to Spain to get the results.

http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/sudden-adult-death-syndrome-the-genetic-screening-that-saves-young-lives-1.2106873?client=safari&mode=amp

elperello

https://www.cry.ie/index.php/need-help/information/what-is-sads

Check out this link about SADS.

It's more common than you might expect.

snubbleste

Must've been drop dead gorgeous

Ben Gadot

cisk wrote: »

More than likely Sudden Adult Death Syndrome, it is believed to be mostly genetic and you can get screened for it although currently the test must be sent to Spain to get the results.

http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/sudden-adult-death-syndrome-the-genetic-screening-that-saves-young-lives-1.2106873?client=safari&mode=amp

From what I know it's not genetic, oul lad died from cancer a decade ago in his 60s, other than that deaths since then we're natural.

Pickpocket

snubbleste wrote: »

Must've been drop dead gorgeous

Grow up.

RobertKK

My nephew has a very rare heart condition he didn't know about.
It was only due to a complicated pregnancy for his sibling where they were told it was fatal foetal abnormality, and would not survive long after birth, child is now living a normal life aged 8 going on 9, playing sports and like any other child.
It was his condition that saved his brother as medication was able to control and make better the condition. Parents were told if they didn't have the last child with all the complications and bad news, that the other brother would likely have dropped dead by early teens at the latest as he would have went undiagnosed.
So what started off with very dark clouds, ended up being literally a life saver.

Hammer89

cisk wrote: »

More than likely Sudden Adult Death Syndrome, it is believed to be mostly genetic and you can get screened for it although currently the test must be sent to Spain to get the results.

Ah f*ck that.

pcuser

It happened a friend of mine 18 yrs ago, Ross Cooney. He was playing a game of basketball for UL above in Dublin and dropped dead during the game. He was only 18/19 he didnt not smoke and was a very athletic guy.

Barry Badrinath

snubbleste wrote: »

Must've been drop dead gorgeous

No need for that bollox. Youre a disgrace.

snubbleste

Pickpocket wrote: »

Grow up.

This is AH.
Where does the phrase 'drop dead gorgeous' come from then?

_Kaiser_

snubbleste wrote: »

This is AH.
Where does the phrase 'drop dead gorgeous' come from then?

AH or not, a bit of cop on around a topic like this never hurts. Plenty of threads for thanks-whoring with "funny" comments.

Skommando

snubbleste wrote: »

This is AH.
Where does the phrase 'drop dead gorgeous' come from then?

I wonder how "funny" you'd find it if it was one of your close friends or family ?
(Assuming you have any that is)

donegaLroad

yes, it has happened here recently. 38, died in his sleep, no warnings whatsoever, athletic guy.

Everyone over the age of 40 should get their cholesterol levels checked once a year. I don't think that SAD has anything to do with high cholesterol though?

LordSutch

The sleeper of suddden death?

Never heard of that term before.

BrianD3

A few (former) pro soccer players have died of cardiovascular issues at relatively young ages. Marc Vivien Foe is a well known one. But just this week Daniel Prodan the former Romania international died in his mid 40s.

Also, Les Sealey, Pavel Srnicek and Trifon Ivanov died relatively young. Ivanov was about 50 the others were younger.

Skerries

I saw a very sad video on Live Leaks where an 8 year old girl was playing with her friends in the playground and just suddenly collapsed dead

Ben Gadot

LordSutch wrote: »

The sleeper of suddden death?

Never heard of that term before.

That's my own term. Literally I think it's a fair description.

Skommando

Ben Gadot wrote: »

That's my own term. Literally I think it's a fair description.

sounds more like a train

HS3

Sorry to hear about your neighbour. A friend of a woman in work lost her daughter a few weeks ago. In her 30s, no known underlying illness. She just dropped.

Ferrari3600

In other news (ho ho ho)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3312054/Former-German-Chancellor-Helmut-Schmidt-smoked-60-day-teenager-dies-hospital-aged-96.html

Ben Gadot

HS3 wrote: »

Sorry to hear about your neighbour. A friend of a woman in work lost her daughter a few weeks ago. In her 30s, no known underlying illness. She just dropped.

But what's the underlying illness? I'm always dubious when I hear that phrase as in why do we not hear about these illnesses until it takes the person?

HS3

Ben Gadot wrote: »

But what's the underlying illness? I'm always dubious when I hear that phrase as in why do we not hear about these illnesses until it takes the person?

I don't know. They did a post mortem but I thought it a bit intrusive to go ask my colleague.

Unless we go for MOT's how could you detect anything?

Senna

Guy I went to school with died at 25yr old, was recently married, sitting down stairs playing a computer game, started to get a headache and said to the wife he was going to lay down. She went up to see how her was about 20 minutes later and couldn't wake him.
He had an undiagnosed heart condition but had shown no signs of it before.

Edit. Actually there was another guy I went to school with too, he was a paramedic, don't even think he would have been 30, again no history of illness and just didn't wake up one morning.

Super-Rush

Last year one of the neighbours was having a drink in the local pub and he just died mid sentence sitting at the bar.

Was in his mid forties, worked hard, would have played GAA until a few years ago and was in good health.

cocoman

Ben Gadot wrote: »

We just got news of a neighbour dropping dead in his 30s. He had no history of illness. I'm wondering how common this is so share your stories.

Very sorry to hear of your neighbour passing away. RIP.
My brother died suddenly a number of years ago. He was only 20. He played a bit of soccer but not competitively, didn't smoke and wasn't a big drinker. He had no symptoms of any underlying illness. The cause of death was Myocarditis which affected the hearts electrical system.
I think many young sports players today are screened for underlying heart conditions. There are a few organisations that have been set up on the past number of years to provide information in relation to Sudden Adult Death. CRY is one and The Cormac Trust is another.

Ben Gadot

cocoman wrote: »

Very sorry to hear of your neighbour passing away. RIP.
My brother died suddenly a number of years ago. He was only 20. He played a bit of soccer but not competitively, didn't smoke and wasn't a big drinker. He had no symptoms of any underlying illness. The cause of death was Myocarditis which affected the hearts electrical system.
I think many young sports players today are screened for underlying heart conditions. There are a few organisations that have been set up on the past number of years to provide information in relation to Sudden Adult Death. CRY is one and The Cormac Trust is another.

Where was the grief born out of Man? I'd never be happy with it.

OldMrBrennan83

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D Trent

pcuser wrote: »

It happened a friend of mine 18 yrs ago, Ross Cooney. He was playing a game of basketball for UL above in Dublin and dropped dead during the game. He was only 18/19 he didnt not smoke and was a very athletic guy.

so.....he did smoke ?

Or he didn't smoke

I'm hugely confused Ted

Ben Gadot

Patww79 wrote: »

It's still AH though. If the OP really gave a **** they'd have posted it in the numerous other forums here that could have taken it. It was posted in AH specifically for that type of reaction, why else?

OK, why don't you contact me if that's what you think.

OldMrBrennan83

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Day Lewin

Cop on lads. People die of this, and information can be protective.

Sudden death from cardiac arrhythmia IS much commoner than you may think and it seems to particularly strike healthy young men - a group that of course have usually no history of ill-health.
And nothing to do with cholesterol at all, or any of the usual "culprits" - its a genetic defect in the cell walls at a microscopic level.
Sodium, for example, is one electrolyte that people sometimes blame for heart troubles; but a lack of enough sodium or potassium can be very serious. And this could be caused by fever or diarrhoea or heavy sweating.
These heart conditions can run in families and there is an Irish screening programme for them
http://www.sads.ie/index.html

Ben Gadot

Patww79 wrote: »

Because it didn't happen to me or anyone I give a crap about so I really don't give a **** to be honest.

Good man I hope it never dòès

buried

I know of a good few instances where this has happened myself. Young people just passing without warning. Very shocking, goes against the grain of what we perceive to be the "normal" and "natural" way of things. But death is the apex of normal and natural, it is one of the only two definites in life - you are born, you will die. IMO The Modern western world holds so much weight in a possession based consumer culture, its easy to view our own present existence as a possession that we do not want to loose. Existence isn't a personal possession like a car, its an experience we all have to go through and make the best we can from it while we're here experiencing it. Sorry to hear about your neighbour OP, I know it will have given you a shock, but this is the way of things.

OldMrBrennan83

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TallGlass

I know of two people in the last two years. Both high profile jobs. One of them was only saying how stressful it was before they passed other guy dropped dead in his kitchen.

JupiterKid

No SADS in my immediate family but there's a bad history of heart disease. When I was 15 my mother died suddenly of a massive heart attack. She was 46 years of age and was a heavy smoker. 2 years later my Dad had a triple bypass to clear blocked arteries and a few years ago one of my sisters had heart trouble and had to get a stent in her artery. Last year my cousin in the UK dropped dead of a massive heart attack at 47.

Given the family history, Ive had extensive tests done on my heart and it is mostly Ok except for an issue with calcium build up. I need to stop smoking and exercise more.

Calibos

Patww79 wrote: »

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So your hearts OK then? Good man. Think you might want to get yer oul Sociopathy checked out though to be safe.

TallGlass

JupiterKid wrote: »

No SADS in my immediate family but there's a bad history of heart disease. When I was 15 my mother dies suddenly of a massive heart attack. She was 46 years of age and was a heavy smoker. 2 years later my Dad had a triple bypass to clear blocked arteries and a few years ago one of my sisters had heart trouble and had to get a stent in her artery. Last year my cousin in the Ik dropped dead of a massive heart attack at 47.

Given the family history, Ive had extensive tests done on my heart and it is mostly Ok except for an issue with calcium build up. I need to stop smoking and exercise more.

Hate to patronise but yeah give them up. As an smoker myself who has been off them 5 years. Best thing I ever done, you won't regret it and its not as hard as you'd think.

griffin100

When my son was getting his 6 week checkup the doctor started to get very agitated and kept going back to check his heart and after a bit called another doctor in to have a listen. Long story short he was rushed from Holles St to Crumlin - neither me or my wife were allowed in the ambulance, never a good sign.

What the doctor had found was a heart rate of 180bpm in a small baby. Diagnosed as Wolf Parkinson White Syndrome and SVT - a stray electrical signal in his heart that caused his heart to beat at high speed every so often. He was on huge amounts of medication for the first 6 years of his life - 6 doses of various beta blockers and other drugs per day along with regular checks of his heart rate by his mum and me and frequent hospital admissions when his heart rate wouldn't stabilise. A couple of years ago he had cardiac ablation to fix the problem and he's been symptom free since then

Point is if he hadn't have had his 6 week checkup when he did he would have been dead in a Matter of days (so we are told) and would have been classed as a cot death. We were so lucky that he happened to be having an episode during his checkup, if it had been missed then ................

pcuser

D Trent wrote: »

so.....he did smoke ?

Or he didn't smoke

I'm hugely confused Ted

He did not smoke. Just a typo im working long ****s atm .

anon71

A girl in her late 30's where I work died in her sleep last year. She was 5 months pregnant. I only knew her casually but it really upset me. I heard she had been complaining of chest pain for a few days previous but I don't know what the cause of death was.
It seemed insensitive to ask her colleagues and TBH it didn't seem to matter.
She left behind her partner and her one year old child.

Mr. FoggPatches

JupiterKid wrote: »

No SADS in my immediate family but there's a bad history of heart disease. When I was 15 my mother died suddenly of a massive heart attack. She was 46 years of age and was a heavy smoker. 2 years later my Dad had a triple bypass to clear blocked arteries and a few years ago one of my sisters had heart trouble and had to get a stent in her artery. Last year my cousin in the UK dropped dead of a massive heart attack at 47.

Given the family history, Ive had extensive tests done on my heart and it is mostly Ok except for an issue with calcium build up. I need to stop smoking and exercise more.

I'm gonna use this on my tinder.

Keplar240B

Mr. FoggPatches wrote: »

I'm gonna use this on my tinder.

A good heart these days is hard to find

Edups

Ah for jesus sake the absolute eejits trying to be funny about a poor man who just dropped dead. The OP like many others obviously frequents this forum and posted here because it is the most popular. Sudden death is not a joke, heart conditions are a serious problem, and any suspicion you may have one should be addressed post haste.

And to the clown who made the drop dead gorgeous comment, I hope to jesus the mod bans you for trolling because that's the only thing it is.

tatumkelly

I work in life assurance and am currently looking after 6 death claims. All 6 under 40, with 2 under 35. Only one of these deaths was due to a long term, diagnosed condition, the rest were sudden/unexplained.

Even worse than these cases, is the guy who dragged his heels and didn't want to spend the cash on life assurance cos he was "young, fit and healthy". His wife and children are now husband/fatherless and facing a very uncertain financial future.

Sudden death and illness are frighteningly common.

Thespoofer

Friend of my parents, out jogging one day , collapses and dies. Late 30s.

IvyTheTerrible

A good friend from college died 7 years ago while out running, he was only thirty. He had an undetected heart condition, apparently.

Stigura

tatumkelly wrote: »

I work in life assurance and .......... His wife and children are now husband/fatherless and facing a very uncertain financial future.

Sudden death and illness are frighteningly common.

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