. Last year a car struck me and I had MASSIVE heart attack, right in the ICU. Not from cholesterol, diet, but from the SHOCK into my nervous system & strain on the heart. Now I am severely swollen & bloated w/water. In fact, the pressure in my r.leg forced open a weak spot under a healing scab & now clear water streams out my ankle day & night – my shoes & socks, pants DRENCHED 24/7. I spent thousands on cardiologists and they say only to try diuretics to expel fluid cause kidneys not working well due to damaged heart. I have maybe less than 1/3 of my heart muscle functional after the MI. Dr’s say this will be lifelong , progressively worsening, heart cannot pump properly like before. fluid backing up into lungs, everywhere. No specific remedies or surgeries can fix me – except a whole new heart (impossible) .I refuse to enter hospital, If I am doomed, then why must I "visit" cardiologists.? Why re-hash same issues endlessly when they insist no cure possible? What hopes for me??
skykroh: I avoid sodium easily. I am not I insured or eligible for any $$$$ from govt. Stem cell therapy was successful in experiments for damaged heart muscle, but not available now. Please pray for me. Doctos simply say no cure is possible, live with it & take diuretics. I don’t have strength or $$$ to visit MDs to rehash what we already know. They have no magic wand to wave to cure me. I have no $$ for transplant and don’t meet their conditions. Pray for me.
Well, it appears to me that you have 2 choices.
1. Accept the fact that you need a heart transplant to live.
2. Slowly die.
It is your choice. I, nor anyone else can make that choice for you. I am sorry all of this happened to you.
M
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