Christine,
Glad you're back and that your Mom is getting good care. Keep an eye on her.
With this revived, it makes me think even more than I have been already. There is a lot of heart disease in our family and I have to go see a cardiologist myself this coming Wednesday. At this time, they do not know why my blood pressure is up and I have continual chest tightness. My stress test, myoview, and cardiac ct were all fine - just a few minor congenital anomalies. The thought at this time is that I am having vasospasms of my arteries, or that I may have the arteries growing into the heart muscle (called myocardial bridging)- but unless I agree to more tests I will not know for sure. I'm not sure they're on the right track or not as the meds are not doing a heck of a lot - still get light headed, headaches, chest pain, short of breath, and feel exhausted quite a lot of the time. My blood pressure isn't normal even on the meds - but not critical. Seems if I do any sort of activity that exerts me I get all the symptoms of a heart attack back, yet my ECG does not show the heart is in any trouble. I get so sick though that I can't do anything - not even sleep. I'm just hoping that the docs can figure out the problem soon as it has started making me very moody and I'm probably driving Paul crazy as I an not the nicest person to be around when I am not feeling well. All I can do is hold on to the day, the hour, the moment and be happy I'm here (just gets a bit hard when you feel like crap).
Thanks for letting me dump here - having moved to the UP just a year and a half ago, I really have no one but my husband to talk to and he doesn't seem to care much what I'm feeling. Might have to go down state to get a hug from a friend.
- Linda |
