Heart Failure
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THANK YOU Loved Ones of Heart Patients
As a heart patient, I am completely thrilled at the support you folks are showing on here for your loved ones. It's extremely heartening to realize and see the support network that we, as patients (and in all too many instances survivors) have...
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Support, low EF, uncertain of future
Good day, I joined the support network hoping to find answers and get some support. A bit of background- unfortunately some of the details are scanty as I live abroad so much of what I know is hear-say and through my mother's eyes who...
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Heart Failure
Hello. My husband, just got diagnosed with heart failure at 30. He just got discharged from the hospital last week. He went into cardiac twice, and was in the icu for a week. He's been recovering better then expected. He was so healthy before, and...
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Anyone here ever experience or currently experiencing shortness of breath at night?
My husband has been sleeping sitting up for apx one year due to shortness of breath after falling off to sleep. Now it's to the point that it's occurring while sleeping in an upright position as well. Any advice or comments would be very much
read morelatest replyBecky4242, April 7, 2021 1:54pm EST
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Caregiver looking for support
In October of 2015 on what seemed to be a perfectly normal Friday night my husband and I were laying in bed when he began to struggle to catch his breath. He sat up on the side of the bed and slurred the words call 911! So I jumped up called 911. Paramedics...
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V Fib and the future
2015 I'm working for my pop. He looks down at my feet. They've swollen up like balloons. I'm sleeping and then wake up in a pool of water. Am I scared! Heck yeah! Go to my primary doctor. EKG shows sign of very low EF. Fortunately I went to...
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Don’t know what to do
Forgive me but this may be quite long. In 2015 I was told I had a mitral valve leak. It was watched till I had a bout of a fib in 2018. Told I should have it fixed. And that I would be better than new. Not so- surgeon said there was a procedure called...
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Heart touching short film
Heart touching short film This is an award-winning 12-minute film that is definitely worth watching! https://youtu.be/Eqfbmv4mIe0 #nationalheartmonth ...
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Congestive Heart Failure At 44 years old
I didn't know what to expect, I'm new to this site, and this would be my first time in nearly 2 years of caregiving. I'm 42 years old now, my husband is 46, and this is not in any ways how I saw my 40's playing out. All that hard...
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new HF... Biventricular ICD recommended
65 female HF diagnosed 6 mos ago. non ishemic cardiomyopathy leading to heart failure. efr 25%.. left bundle branch block...biventricular ICD recomended. hf drugs working well, lab tests good. anyone experienced anything similar or info...
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