JENNY23

Open Heart Failure

This is hard to write about. For years, I had unstable angina. No doctors diagnosed me with CHF, until one looked at my old cath. report and said I had diastolic dysfunction and pulmonary hypertension. I WONDER HOW I WOULD get something 70 yr. olds get. AND ONLY ONE IN A MILLION GET PH. A MILD CASE THEY SAID. I am scared shitless, and it's hard to breathe. The doctors dismissed my case when they saw what I HAD. I HAVE JUST GOTTEN OUT OF HOSPITAL. I am just so scared and lonely. I AM 53 YRS OLD.

Treatments

Diltiazem Somewhat Helpful

I WAS TOLD BY MY CARDIOLOGIST thatit would get rid of the painful artery spasms. I now on another med, for angina,Ranexa. It's okay.

Open Angina

I HAVE HAD ANGINA FOR MANY YEARS. THE DOCTORS WOULD GIVE ME CATHS, TESTS OF ALL KINDS.THE ASSUME IF THE LARGE BLOOD VESSELS ARE NOT CLOGGED, YOU CANNOT HAVE ANGINA. I ALSO HAVE PH AND CHF. I FOUND A NEW DRUG, RANEXA TO BE QUITE HELPFUL.

Treatments

Nitroglycerin Somewhat Helpful

ALRIGHT IN AN EMERGENCY.

Procardia XL Somewhat Helpful

OKAY, MAKES ME SLEEPY. GOOD FOR SPASMS.

Ranexa Working / Worked

THIS WAS GIVEN TO ME FOR MY SMALL BLOOD VESSEL DISEASE OF HEART.

Open Bereavement
Type: Loss of a Friend

I have lost many things. My health, my friends because I can't keep up with them, my cat, my two best friends, my abiltiy to work. Added to that, I have little or no support systems, and people in general expect one to CHANGE very fast. I need help.

Treatments

Crying Working / Worked

crying dosen't work for me because I get all congested and unless someone holds me, I get scared my heart will give out.

Helping Others Working / Worked

If I can help somebody somehow, I will.

Keeping Busy Working / Worked

Being around people who aren't going to disrespect me, are kind and considerate. Hard to find.Movies,hugging people when I get the chance, reike, praying.

Music Working / Worked

Music is the master relaxer. Soft beautiful songs, meaningful words. Classical or pop, soft music does me good.

Pets Working / Worked

My cat, a 12 yr. old Siamese, can be either a pain in the--- or snuggly. She is a little demanding of me.

Prayer Working / Worked

When I ask Jesus to take the pain away from me, and try to forgive people through Jesus,even people who have harmed me. I sometimes call the 700 club and have someone pray with me.

Psychotherapy Working / Worked

Yes it has worked in the past to an extent.Now it seems people want change too fast from me. It ain't happening. Support counseling is the best.

Support from Friends & Family Working / Worked

When I can hook up with somebody, like the people on DS, it can be very helpful. No real friends anymore.

Support Groups Working / Worked

They are helpful, just being around people with problems. When I don't feel too sick, I WILL GO OUT TO ONE.

Talking Working / Worked

I like talking to people when I am not too tired from my illnesses.

Open Codependency

I have had a childhood filled with abuse and neglect. My father was an alcaholic, my mother the co-dependent. My father was very sick from his neglected childhood, and I don't think he liked women. He had a mother who didn't pay much attention to him and saw many things sexually implied with his mom. I grew up the last of the three. The one who was always blamed for my father and mother's problems. I have little self esteem and latch onto neglectful, nasty, physically and sexually abusive men.

Treatments

12 Step Program Considering

It is good, but sometime I think I am too messed up to change. It has worked a little.

CoDA Not Working

No groups in my area.

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Not Working

Don't know what it is.

Music Too Soon to Tell

Soothing and relaxing, but sometimes painful. I think of my co-dependent nature and get depressed. I like light music.

Pets Somewhat Helpful

The cat helps, but she is a demanding Siamese and gets me angry sometimes. Sometimes she's alright.

Reading Considering

Reiki Somewhat Helpful

a lovely thing I should consider again.

Talking Too Soon to Tell

Sometimes it helps with the man and the problems with him, but everyone tells me to leave him alone. I know this already!

\"Codependent No More\" Not Working

If you are describing the book, it was too confusing to work.

Open Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

I was raped by five boys,at age 17.I thought they were my friends. I thought so little of myself. My father used to leer at me when he was drinking. I became numb emotionally. I hung out with some boys and five of them brutally threw me to the ground and tore off my clothes, making me do oral sex and I don't remember much except the same block of emotions, numb. I didn't tell my parents because I thought they would blame me. I couldn't finish highschool due to panic attacks.

Treatments

Art Not Working

I am a natural artist. I would draw pics when I was little. Used to paint oil, but became too depressed to continue much through my teens.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Not Working

Worked in the past with the right counselor but she moved. Itis hard to find long term counseling with my insurance.

Effexor Somewhat Helpful

It is somewhat helpful.

Music Working / Worked

Working more than anything now.

Psychotherapy Somewhat Helpful

Worked in the past, but hard to find a good counselor long term.

Talking Somewhat Helpful

With the right person, usually a female, it worked somewhat.

Open Common Variable Immunodeficiency

Well, I am on DS SITE and I see this CVID THING. I get scared and excited. I am always on anti-biotics for sinus infections and use to have terrible bronchitis. I also have CHF and Pulmonary Hypertension. The doc at the ER said,"yOU HAVE A cat???" iT FEELS LIKE I AM ALLERGIC TO THE CAT. My place is full of dust and I am miserable. Also I was never diagnosed with this CVID but it sounds like me. What can I DO?