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Been in the ER/Hospital the past week. Will post details later as I'm up to it.
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I advise all of you to have/buy the basic tools to check yourself. Luckily for me my wife stays on top of these things. I suddenly became out of breath to where I could not cross the room w/o being exhausted. I felt like I was only utilizing about 1/20th of my lungs.
A quick check determined it was my heart instead with my O2 being good, along with basic holding your breath test.
The 200+bpm pulse and 155 over 105 blood pressure (and rising) was a give away.
How I felt was indescribable. I couldn't bear to stand. I could not lay horizontally w/o gasping for breath and I felt nauseated most all the time making any form of sleep or rest impossible. As posted above, any movement totally exhausted me.
With no time to waste on a GP doctor I was off to the ER. A cardiac ER in this case where a large group of doctors oversaw everything instead of just one.
Along with everything else my BP was erratic, jumping all over the place making the machine readouts look un-real. My heart had fallen out of rhythm.
This info/experience is being passed on to inform anyone else who has sudden health changes. Most of this occurred over a one week period with things getting too bad to handle the last 2 days. Check your heart.Last edited by Allen; 05-14-2025, 11:11.Comment
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yep, I got 2 heart attacks AFTER the triple bypass, a stent, a pacemaker/defribilator and an aortic valve installed in the last 7 years.
now I'm out of breath and am going in monday for the pulmonary exam blow test. They say I probably have COPD. I think I just have old age and heart failure coming on.! We shall see.Comment
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Best of luck to you----please keep us posted.
I got by with no surgery, just a couple of ultrasounds, a heart catheterization plus "the paddles" to shock my heart back into rhythm.
I had no idea a person could feel this miserable. I haven't felt this bad since my covid vac feeling you would have to get way better just to die.
What I remember about the pulmonary blow test, if it is the same thing, is you have to blow through a 1" tube as hard as you can. A certain amount on volume is expected. There is no resistance and it's like blowing through an open door way. My former employer required these test frequently and I could barely pass them years ago way before any heart problems.Comment
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I'm on 6 prescriptions now > go back to the doc in a few weeks to see what I need to keep taking. In the hos I was put on Lasix and lost 25# (in just 3-4 days) of fluid from my stomach. Surprisingly there was no other swelling. The doc's thought it was unusual too.Comment
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15 yrs ago had aorta valve replaced, in hosp 5 days, lost 25 lbs. Wish I hadn't gone looking for them again. But, hospital food only works if you are confined.Last edited by PWC; 05-20-2025, 11:36.Comment
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Actually the hospital food was quite good even though it was a "heart healthy" low salt diet. There was no snacks but with three large meals a day and doing nothing but laying in bed all day the amount of food was more than enough. It's a wonder I didn't gain weight from it. A 25# loss that quick is a jolt to the body. It appears a little time is needed for things to even out some.
Wish I could keep it off too but with the heat and rain of summer approaching my activities will no doubt diminish and some of the weight will return. Hopefully it won't be fluid from congestive heart failure next time.Comment
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Been home about a week and a half and the hospital bills are pouring in. It's amazing how many people get paid to read the same x-rays.
So far medicare + BCBS are paying most all of it. I will have a co-payment somewhere around $2K for the hos alone. Donno what else.
One of the bills just for the hos was $170K.Comment
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I guess that we are at an age where bad things happen. My wife had a bad fall and has now spent 2 months in hospital recovering and getting rehab so she can (hopefully) walk well enough to come home in July. The comment about the food is interesting to say the least. The food that she gets looks pretty good to me; varied and very plentiful. She is, however, so tired of it that she occasionally texts me to go to McDs to get her a cheeseburger
Having said that, yesterday I spent 6 hours at a local hospital undergoing a long series of both physical and mental tests. In this case, it's because I'm participating in a 20 year study involving 20,000 full participants and 30,000 telephone participants on the effects of aging. Every three years we have a 2 hour interview at home involving a couple of hundred questions and then a week later, the above mentioned physical tests. According to the tests, I have shrunk; my hearing is catastrophic without my hearing aids and I can't see as well as I thought I could. My bones are strong though. They made no comments on my mental capacity. One interesting thing is that the last set of questions was an attempt to determine if I was a victim of elder abuse.Comment
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Yes, bad things are happening or most likely will be happening in the following years as our time nears an end.
That's why I'm broadcasting my issues now and my recent bleeding ulcer experience where I over detailed the events.
My wife had a hip replaced 10 years ago and is doing fine. In fact she walks 4 miles a day. Me? I'm 71 and this is my first claim on Medicare. In fact, about 8 years ago my primary care doctor retired and was never replaced. Point being, we have been considered to be in "perfect health". Now, my heart got out of whack suddenly.
Just like that ulcer, it happened w/o notice.
Kinda sucks growing old.Comment
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re bills, wife had foot surgery back in the spring,
all went very well, and yes the bills started rolling in,
she has to pay for 2 anesthesiologist,, one was there when she arrived, and prepped her, then that persons shift ended and the other finished up,
I had always thought a doc etc stayed with you till you were done, guess now if the shift ends and you are on the table, they just tag team it, as in tag, you are in, and the other is out,
I have a customer that is in rehab, I go see him a few times a month, and sometimes food shows up,
and while I know the place he is at is a very old rehab/nursing home, (my grandmothers uncle died there when I was maybe 10, that was 52 yrs ago) I think the food may be that old too,
he says it will keep you alive, but generally it sucks,Comment
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I have a checkup every 6 months for any cancer, as of July none! Still looking for my lost mind, oh well the boss keeps me on a fairly straight keel.
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