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Congestive Heart Failure Symptoms
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Congestive Heart Failure Symptoms
by Debie-D, Jan 01, 1995 12:00AM
Posted By Debbie D. on December 14, 1998 at 03:39:28:
Please help me. There is no emergency, I just need to understand a few things.
My mother, Sharon (who lived in Iowa) started having all kinds of things go wrong with her body.
February 1998, she had extremely dry skin, white and peeling and she complained
that her nails were extremely brittle and wouldn't grow. I suggested vitamin
E, B12, wheat germ and seeing a doctor. In July, she developed sores all
over her arms and legs that wouldn't heal and she complained of pain after
she ate, she said that the doctor told her that it was acid-reflux. She
said that she couldn't sleep at night and would rest better sitting in her
easy chair. I thought that she was just really missing my father who died
of a brain tumor March of '89. In September, she visited my family in CA
and really talked about not wanting to eat because it hurt too much, her
skin and sores wouldn't heal and her brain seemed out of control, she felt
out of control of her thoughts sometimes, she forgot a lot. Again, I asked
about going to a doctor, though neither of us have much faith. My father
was misdiagnosed with a migrain and told that nothing was wrong until they
finally ran an MRI and found a brain tumor the size of a grapefruit. The
attempt to do a byopsy destroyed his brochia and took away the man inside
until he died 6 months later an invilaid. So I didn't push the doctor issue
much. In November we visited her in IA and the pain had gotten so bad she
really didn't eat or sleep much. Finally November 10th she went to a clinic,
she was shuffled dr. to dr. and finally one of them ran some tests. He was
pretty sure that she had a heart problem and set her up with an angiogram.
Then he cancelled the tests and decided that she had a thyroid dissorder.
He did not run any heart tests and did not consult a thyroid specialist.
This dr. called a thyroid dr. and had him prescribe medication for my mother
to be taken at doses gradually increasing the amount, set her up with an
appointment to see the thyroid specialist after her vacation then gave her
his blessing for her trip across country driving to Florida to see her
mother. I spoke to her December 3rd in Hot Spring, AR enroute to Florida.
She told me about seeing a dr., of course we were both relieved that it wasn't
her heart. She arrived in Florida on Tuesday, Wednesday night my grandmother
found her sitting up all night because the pain was so bad she couldn't
sleep. She didn't think anything was an emergency because she had seen
a dr. who said that her heart was fine, her thyroid was messed up and the
pills would straighten it out. She thought that the additional pain was
a side effect of the medication. She was wrong. 3:00 Thursday, my uncle
saw her and said you need to call the thyroid specialist, the nurse at the
dr's. office told her to get to ER. It was too late, she had had a heart attack
2 days earlier, drove to FL, and by the time someone who knew anything could
see her, it was too late.
My questions are, are the skin, nail, sores, pain and heart attack all related?
Did the thyroid medication overwork an already overworked heart? If I
had called 911 after talking to her in AR, would she have been saved, and
if so would she be rather healthy, or an invilaid?
I know that this is long, I have no one to talk to. I need answers.
Thank you.
Please help me. There is no emergency, I just need to understand a few things.
My mother, Sharon (who lived in Iowa) started having all kinds of things go wrong with her body.
February 1998, she had extremely dry skin, white and peeling and she complained
that her nails were extremely brittle and wouldn't grow. I suggested vitamin
E, B12, wheat germ and seeing a doctor. In July, she developed sores all
over her arms and legs that wouldn't heal and she complained of pain after
she ate, she said that the doctor told her that it was acid-reflux. She
said that she couldn't sleep at night and would rest better sitting in her
easy chair. I thought that she was just really missing my father who died
of a brain tumor March of '89. In September, she visited my family in CA
and really talked about not wanting to eat because it hurt too much, her
skin and sores wouldn't heal and her brain seemed out of control, she felt
out of control of her thoughts sometimes, she forgot a lot. Again, I asked
about going to a doctor, though neither of us have much faith. My father
was misdiagnosed with a migrain and told that nothing was wrong until they
finally ran an MRI and found a brain tumor the size of a grapefruit. The
attempt to do a byopsy destroyed his brochia and took away the man inside
until he died 6 months later an invilaid. So I didn't push the doctor issue
much. In November we visited her in IA and the pain had gotten so bad she
really didn't eat or sleep much. Finally November 10th she went to a clinic,
she was shuffled dr. to dr. and finally one of them ran some tests. He was
pretty sure that she had a heart problem and set her up with an angiogram.
Then he cancelled the tests and decided that she had a thyroid dissorder.
He did not run any heart tests and did not consult a thyroid specialist.
This dr. called a thyroid dr. and had him prescribe medication for my mother
to be taken at doses gradually increasing the amount, set her up with an
appointment to see the thyroid specialist after her vacation then gave her
his blessing for her trip across country driving to Florida to see her
mother. I spoke to her December 3rd in Hot Spring, AR enroute to Florida.
She told me about seeing a dr., of course we were both relieved that it wasn't
her heart. She arrived in Florida on Tuesday, Wednesday night my grandmother
found her sitting up all night because the pain was so bad she couldn't
sleep. She didn't think anything was an emergency because she had seen
a dr. who said that her heart was fine, her thyroid was messed up and the
pills would straighten it out. She thought that the additional pain was
a side effect of the medication. She was wrong. 3:00 Thursday, my uncle
saw her and said you need to call the thyroid specialist, the nurse at the
dr's. office told her to get to ER. It was too late, she had had a heart attack
2 days earlier, drove to FL, and by the time someone who knew anything could
see her, it was too late.
My questions are, are the skin, nail, sores, pain and heart attack all related?
Did the thyroid medication overwork an already overworked heart? If I
had called 911 after talking to her in AR, would she have been saved, and
if so would she be rather healthy, or an invilaid?
I know that this is long, I have no one to talk to. I need answers.
Thank you.
