Anything that will help heart muscle in elderly persons?

Question

For someone who has been living with COPD, Atrial Fibrillation, and CHF, is there anything that would help strengthening of heart muscle?

Answer 1

Walking, lung exercises, Fat free, sugar free, and lot of veg. will help you out. Take your medication daily. Cook in Olive oil, and lot of fish. Loose weight and no more Smoking or other Stimulants like coffee. Sleep on time.
Lastly avoid stress in life.

Answer 2

My dad has all these and the doctors really suggest a med called Coreg. He personally didn't get along too well with it when they increased the dosage. He had some side effects they didn't expect and bothered us as a family more than dad or the doctors.

He also uses a steroidal inhaler to keep the air and blood going between heart and lungs as it needs to. He has a bronchial block so that adds more to his lung problems and got hospitalized last year. So far the steroids have been keeping him breathing better. The lungs and heart/circulatory systems rely on each other to be working. It's good to see both a pulmonologist and cardiologist and have them agree which system is causing the original problem and working together.

Answer 3

Most important lifestyle change would be to stop smoking. Smoking makes all of the three diseases you mentioned worse. Cutting down doesn't make a difference. Only stopping does. Remember a lifetime of smoking cuts about 8 years off of your lifespan, assuming you don't die of lung caner, heart attacks, strokes or have to have your legs amputated.

Weight loss (if you are overweight), cutting down on alcohol (if you drink to excess) and moderate graded exercise (if you do none) also help.

The drugs Hyder mentioned work for a lot of people. You would probably benefit. Go see your doctor.

Good luck.

Answer 4

Hi;
There are some ways to cure these diseases but you must cunsult to a specialist first. Also I can say that beta-blockers and ACE inhibitors work wery greatfully on that issues. But the treatment is basicly the diet and exsercise. Try to have atleast 45 minutes walk on normal speed and do not eat high collesterol food. And also if you have chest aches you can use some nitrats for your symptoms but it does not help your disease only lover your symptoms.
Hope get well soon.
MD. Hazer Ayvaz

Answer 5

do your doctors have you on a medicine called toprol or diltiazem? both of these drugs will control atrial fib. also are you taking lasix? there is a good drug out there called coreg, it is great for heart failure. it helps prevent further ventricular remodeling. watch salt intake, monitor your weight daily. let your dr know if you gain more than 3 pounds in a week. hope that these tips help you. good luck and take care.