Sept.'05 a car struck me and in ICU I had a MASSIVE MI in every wall of my heart with much scarring. For the next year, I had surgery to mend broken bones. I felt OK, ate, drank, urinated much,walked quite a bit, didn't feel feeble. Leg healed. I take aCE-inhibitors,Hydrazaline for BP. MY bloodwork for liver/kidney/lipids/etc was A-OK. NOv.06 I sudenly swelled up w/pitting edema and weak breathing, gasping, drained feeling, MY
thighs, legs, calves, ankles, & abdomen feel such pain a& pressure from water trapped inside, My outer skins feels like leather. My legs are rigid, cannot flex anymore. & all the diuretics, ALL of them make no uRINATION at all. a CUP O COFFEE WILL MAKE ME URINATE MORE. mY EJECTION FRACTION IS 50%. & they tell me that diuretics per se, have no direct effect on water overload in tissues spaces. body must wait till this fluid reabsorbs across the capillaries. I am in great pain from this CHF & edema. How many years can somone survive, like this,?
2007-02-20
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Heart Diseases