Aerosmith’s drummer Joey Kramer says he’s feeling great, following a health scare that cancelled a California concert in August.
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Speaking on The Eddie Trunk Podcast, Kramer set the record straight over the situation. As TMZ reported at the time that Kramer was facing “heart complications,” the drummer was ready to clarify the gossip website’s report that he “had heart issues in the past.
“The likes of TMZ and some other [media outlets] out there said that I had previous problems, that I had existing heart problems from the past and it was something that I always had, which was just completely not true,” Kramer said. “I’ve never had any problems in the past. It’s just strictly a hereditary thing. There’s a family history, and I was the victim. But no more.”
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Kramer said he had gone to see his doctor after experiencing what he had thought was acid reflux but turned out to be more serious.
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“I kept getting this burning sensation in my chest, and that’s what I thought it was,” he said. “My [general practitioner] said to me, ‘Just to make sure and rule out that it’s anything cardiac related, go and take a stress test.’ So I went and took the stress test. I got through the echogram with flying colors. He said that my cardiovascular system looked like that of a 48- or a 50-year-old, and I’m 64. And then I got on the treadmill, and when I got on the treadmill, it started to bother me a little bit.”
Kramer wound up needing an angioplasty with two stents inserted to fix the blockage.
“It wasn’t my time. It wasn’t time for my ticket to be punched.” he said. “And so I got fixed, and I’m back 150 percent, and everything is as good as it can possibly be.”