Heart Failure Support Group
Heart failure is a condition that can result from any structural or functional cardiac disorder that impairs the ability of the heart to fill with or pump a sufficient amount of blood throughout the body. It is often undiagnosed due to a lack of a universally agreed definition and difficulties in diagnosis, particularly when the condition is considered "mild."
Feeling really tired today ,all I did was clean out the refrig.I am back to being exhausted from simple things.If not better by Monday will call my MD and see what else we can do.This heart failure is exhausting.
Have to measure your BP??
The times that I feel like that are for 2 reasons, either my BP has going too low for what I am used to or I have entered in a Low cardiac output syndrome.
In the first case, a few grains of salt and a glass of water, usually helps.
The low output is something that can upset anyone the first time that it happens but , I have learned to feel it when it is about to happen and I prevent it before happening just by resting horizontally for a while. When it hits me, the feeling is that all my body has lost its strength, it is hard to recognized myself in a mirror because the muscles in my face has lost any tone and if I do not look rapidly for a chair or a bed, I just fall down.
Do not despair, ... it will be better days.
Jesus
Just a little comment to suggest, in addition to jesus ideas, yo might benefit from a few vitamins - I know they have helped me a lot
I take B12 - about 2x
and COQ10 - 150 mg per day - good to help heart repain itself.
and Vitamin D - 2400 IU per day with 1400 mg calcium - I am deficient in vitamin D otherwise 400 to 800 would be more than enough.
Hope these give you some ideas.
Hugs, Raoul
Today I have been thinking about you all the morning... as every Sunday my alarm clock rng at 7 to remember me that I have to take my strong diuretic... normally it gets about 1kg of water out of my body in 2-3 hours what allows me to have my lungs clean for the next week.
When I took my BP at 9am, as every day, it was 87/45 ... and I remember you while doing what seemed to be an impossible task : to put the socks and to tie the shoes. And then I went into taking my BB and ACE Inhibitor to control the BP!!!
By the way, here in Europe we also have another remedy for that , a cup of good, STRONG black coffee!!! :) :)
Now is 13:30 and I am back to live... ready to cook a good marinate tuna to my wife....
Jesus