I wanted to share an unusual syndrome with you & hope someone can empathize with my dilemna.?

Question

Up to 09/05 I had some clogged arteries BUT also had excellent COLLATERAL formation which helped me manage quite well. never was on any heart meds. I took my BP meds, though. then 09/05 car struck me - I was badly hurt, in the ICU I had MASSIVE MI in all segments. Put on respirator for days. Hospital never mentioned to me about the MI or respirator, I found out later from visitors. No cardiology F/UP was given. Months later I had tibial fracture mended with external fixation. Rods later removed, holes in skin & bone scabbed, MD pronounced them closed. Now since 1 mo. ago, I have severe left ventricular dysfunction, global hypokinesis, ejection fraction is +50% - One fixator hole now oozes streams of cold clear water (no blood) day & night - soaking my socks,shoes & pants & NON-stop. I have bad chest pains on exertion & outside in cold. I believe maybe I'm losing water faster than I can replace it -yet I am nauseous, cough endlessly, and am swollen with water, in limbs. Help.

Answer 1

You don't need to be outside in the cold hon, you need to be in CCU in a different hospital than the one that treated you for the accident or fracture. If you have to go back to that hospital, keep your mouth shut about the things they did or didn't tell you, they have all your records, and you may have a good malpractice case. All that fluid, and the coughing, pain, and left ventricular dysfunction sounds suspiciously like congestive heart failure. If it is, you've had it for a while, and you need to be seen in ER now, and not a moment sooner. My Husband waited, and came within a day of dying. You sound very sick, and need to go. No one wants to be in the hospital on Christmas Eve, but you don't want to fall over on Christmas morning and end up in the ambulance chewing on an ornament, either. Just please get it checked out. Take care of yourself, that's the most important thing.

Bless you. I hope that I'm wrong. Feel better soon.

Answer 2

Have your doctor check you for congestive heart failure and edema. Better yet book an appointment here;
http://www.lockwoodclinic.com/services.htm.
They'll give you a through work up.

Answer 3

Sounds like a bad case of edema and or pleurisy due to heart failure. Don't want to scare you, but get on it dude.

Answer 4

have them thoroughly checked by a specialist. consider pulmonary emboli, congestive heart failure, hypoalbuminemia, etc. some medications might help.

Answer 5

damn and all i have is back pain dude i am sorry