since Nov.06 I began to swell with severe edema from ankles up to thighs, liver has severe ascites now. I can no longer walk freely or flex legs to wear pants or climb stairs. I am in severe torment from edema. Torsemide did nothng, Zaraxylyn gave some diuresis but my edema is truly unchanged no matter what drugs I take. Plus, I have toxicity limits due to fevers and nausea & dizziness from drugs.
MY relative faraway, an MD says that .25 mg digoxin daily will clear away this entrenched hard edema. But MY heart attack which started my illness was so MASSIVE - large infarction & scarring in "
EVERY WALL OF the heart. M yEjection fraction is 50%. I have severe reduced both left & right ventricular dysfunction. Seems to me that digoxin might give a boost to a mildly damaged heart, but not one as damaged as mine. I seem also to have poor response to diuretics, since blood perfusion to kidneys is impaired , Do you feel that digoxin can compensate for massive heart damage?
2007-01-28
03:00:11
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Heart Diseases