I'm back

[Allen]

Been in the ER/Hospital the past week. Will post details later as I'm up to it.

[PWC]

Had no idea! I'm glad you are back. Board's been kinda dead lately.

[Allen]

I advise all of you to have/buy the basic tools to check yourself. Luckily for me my wife stays on top of these things. I suddenly became out of breath to where I could not cross the room w/o being exhausted. I felt like I was only utilizing about 1/20th of my lungs.

A quick check determined it was my heart instead with my O2 being good, along with basic holding your breath test.

The 200+bpm pulse and 155 over 105 blood pressure (and rising) was a give away.

How I felt was indescribable. I couldn't bear to stand. I could not lay horizontally w/o gasping for breath and I felt nauseated most all the time making any form of sleep or rest impossible. As posted above, any movement totally exhausted me.

With no time to waste on a GP doctor I was off to the ER. A cardiac ER in this case where a large group of doctors oversaw everything instead of just one.

Along with everything else my BP was erratic, jumping all over the place making the machine readouts look un-real. My heart had fallen out of rhythm.

This info/experience is being passed on to inform anyone else who has sudden health changes. Most of this occurred over a one week period with things getting too bad to handle the last 2 days. Check your heart.

[Allen]

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[Former Cav]

yep, I got 2 heart attacks AFTER the triple bypass, a stent, a pacemaker/defribilator and an aortic valve installed in the last 7 years.
now I'm out of breath and am going in monday for the pulmonary exam blow test. They say I probably have COPD. I think I just have old age and heart failure coming on.! We shall see.

[Allen]

yep, I got 2 heart attacks AFTER the triple bypass, a stent, a pacemaker/defribilator and an aortic valve installed in the last 7 years.
now I'm out of breath and am going in monday for the pulmonary exam blow test. They say I probably have COPD. I think I just have old age and heart failure coming on.! We shall see.

Best of luck to you----please keep us posted.

I got by with no surgery, just a couple of ultrasounds, a heart catheterization plus "the paddles" to shock my heart back into rhythm.

I had no idea a person could feel this miserable. I haven't felt this bad since my covid vac feeling you would have to get way better just to die.

What I remember about the pulmonary blow test, if it is the same thing, is you have to blow through a 1" tube as hard as you can. A certain amount on volume is expected. There is no resistance and it's like blowing through an open door way. My former employer required these test frequently and I could barely pass them years ago way before any heart problems.

[Allen]

I'm on 6 prescriptions now > go back to the doc in a few weeks to see what I need to keep taking. In the hos I was put on Lasix and lost 25# (in just 3-4 days) of fluid from my stomach. Surprisingly there was no other swelling. The doc's thought it was unusual too.