I was stricken with CHF & severe edema in Nov.06 - appr. 1 yr after a massive MI resulting from a car crash. My heart is only1/3 muscle tissue now & incompetent pumping force. But I have 50% Ejection fraction. Please tell me, if you succeeded with diuretics, fluid restriction, and did the water trapped within your tissues all over finally get reabsorbed back into your venous system. ???
did the water pressure & pain in your limbs or abdomen, finally moderate & go back to normal.??
I ask cause diuretics fail in my body. ALL of them.A bit ofcaffeine gives me some diuresis, but not Lasix or the Rx drugs. Cardiologists gave me no clear answers - they say to enter hospital, but they cannot say exactly WHAT they will do and when the water swelling in my body will disappear. They want an open-ended stay & I refuse. I am alone, uninsured, can't pay the fees & am terrified of hospitals. MY illness has no remedy, no cure. I want so much to know how you sufferers coped. Anyone succeed?
2007-02-23
14:49:44
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