Hope your CHF isn't worsening...I mean, it is going to progress...that is what the HF part of the equation is
...In re your fluid retention, - have they tried you on a different diuretic - even another loop diuretic like torsemide or a potassium sparing one like spironolactone?
Some aspects have worsened some have not not. Last year I constantly had knee dropping chest pains it felt like someone tazed me and spikes of pain would shoot out all across my upper body. So far this year that hasn't happened at all. There was 3 weeks last year where everyday I woke up I was completely 100% deaf. I couldn't hear myself clapping and that hearing would come back over the course of an hour or two. Last fall I could feel and hear the beating of my heart at times and my head felt like it was going to launch off from pressure but my BP was 140-160s over 90-110s. Now it is back to 120/80ish. The nodules I had in my lungs in 2015 when I had all the embolisms were reduced last year and I assume gone when I had the xray recently. No mention was made and the Xray was specific for them. Doctor wasn't clear if they were gone or just no change but they said since it wasn't mentioned everything is good.
They tried a few different ones after the hospital event in 2015 I can't remember which ones but I am not sure if it was them or just recovering from the clots and heart damage I suffered from the clots but I was moved back to lasix pretty quick. I am not sure what share of odd side effects I've had was on the lasix but overall day to day I can't tell I take them other than going to the bathroom a few times more. My brother was on water pills before he died and I never had the side effects he had where he claimed he was off balance enough to fall over or felt like I was swimming.
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, do you have heart failure? Any particular reason for the fluid restriction?
Yes right side heart/cor pulmonale. Just over 2 years ago I noticed one day my right leg was about twice the size of my left leg from the hip down. I had clots in the leg 2 years prior. This time they diagnosed me with thrombosis in the leg and due to the 13 embolisms in my lungs heart ultrasound and mris determined I was in heart failure. Left side is excellent, right side is all fucked up. Water buildup in lungs, around heart, pooling daily in leg. If I talk a few minutes without clearing throat I sound like Aquaman.
VERY lucky to have survived the clots initially. I remember feeling like shit weeks leading up to it and weak at times. The day I went to the hospital my blood oxygen saturation was 92 if I didn't move and would drop down to low 80s if I did so much as raised my hand. They called in my family and stuff because it was assumed I wouldn't survive the night. So far since then and blood thinning I've only had a few clot events. Mostly contained in the leg.
On the final day before leaving the hospital doctors and nurses rushed into the room and asked me what I just did. I said nothing. My heart went from 70 bpm to >160 for 5 seconds. That is when they found out about the taching and stuck me on metoprolol which has increased over time from 50mg a day to 200.
Last year I didn't get much testing done other than monthly chem12 and inr testing done monthly. This year I took off since Xmas to work on diet, exercise, testing and doctors since many of them are all over the state. I think I've stabilized myself enough to return to work next month or that is my hope.
Why aren't you taking the metformin?
7.2 isn't even excessively high but in the prediabetic range
What happened initially was I was in denial. I knew I had been drinking lots of sweet tea and the more I drank the thirstier I became, so when I was told holy shit you are suddenly prediabetic then diabetic shortly afterwards when I hit the 8.7 I felt I could fix it myself by just cutting sugars completely. That somewhat worked actually and I lost 10-15 average glucose every 10 days from 200-220s down to 180s then 160s then 140s then 120s last week on daily average. During that time metforim was tossed into my medicine pool but quick research showed 2.5 increased heart attack/stroke to people in CHF. So I didn't take it. When brought up to my cardio doctor( who isn't one who prescribed it ) he yelled at me and said the risks of not taking it far outweigh the risks of taking it and that is was the most common drug there was for diabetics. Since then 2 weeks ago I have actually planned to start adding it with evening meal but I keep forgetting. For whatever reason something keeps telling me not to do it.
I feel something is going on with me they haven't found yet. I go through months of odd symptoms that just go away as quickly as they came only to have something else go on for months at a time.
Aside from the many "conditions" listed on my medical record currently something is very wrong with my body. Could be cancer or could be related to the almost 3 decades of smoking up to 3 packs a day. Could be that from the age of like 8-42 I drank about 6 glasses of water total. Was always teas,milks, sodas,orange juice whatever never water. Could be I would go days without sleeping every week for decades at a time. Very common for me to stay up from Friday morning until Sunday night to game, go fishing, watch tv shows whatever. Weekend was party time!. Add in I spent from 13-44 roofing/building houses/remodeling to the other things, I was VERY rough on my body. The only thing I didn't do was drink( other than a 3 year period in college ) or fucked up drugs.
I've said it before here. When it comes to my health, I deserve pretty much everything I've got. It is much less effective to fix mistakes after the fact.
