I’m in my mid 40’s already with a quadruple bypass surgery and multiple heart stents when I started to have angina heart pain again. I went back to my cardiologist and he told me I was no longer a candidate for either more bypass or stents since it would be technically too difficult. He also said that I was already maxed out on my heart meds so that there wasn’t any medication adjustment that could be made. When I pressed him he suggested that he could give me pain medicine so that my angina wouldn’t hurt so much. I pressed him further and he said that if I had 1 or 2 heart attacks that it might put me into heart failure and if so that I could possibly qualify for heart transplant surgery but there was nothing else that he could offer. I decided to research other options on my own and came upon EECP and that Dr. DeStephens was the only doctor in the Gainesville area that was offering it. Dr. DeStephens put me through a standard course of EECP doubling up on treatments so that I could finish up in 3.5 weeks instead of the standard 7 week course. About a month later I had to call him from the Atlanta airport because for the first time in 4 years I was able to carry my own bags in the airport without pain. Everyone with coronary heart disease needs to know about this as a non- invasive option that Dr. DeStephens calls the “Natural bypass alternative.” I have a brand new life with increased natural circulation. And I can always do it again if my symptoms come back.