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I am in hospital right now. Can't sleep either due to being breathless or with oxygen mask on. Right heart and left heart failure diagnosed, EF 18%. HR resting lying down 120, if I do anything it goes up to 150. Have had V-tach episodes.
Thanks for your help and valued concern. I'm asthmatic, the cause of my right heart issues, so I know albuterol very well. When all this crisis happened before I went to hospital, my regular doctor told me to stop taking it as it was making my heart beat too fast. I'm breathing it at the moment, coincidentally, and my heart rate is 180 but the cardiologist is happy to take the risk - and so am I!!! I'll be having Lasix and Digoxin afterwards. I hate this so much as it has happened so suddenly, and as you know the breathlessness and the heart beating fast thing is so scary. The night I was sent to hospital my doctor couldn't hear the individual beats of my heart it was so fast, and when I had an echo the other day my heart looked like people describe a bird's heart it was beating so fast. Any other advice from you would be so wonderful - need to go now, doctor is here...
I've been in your situation, even to the point of using the computer to communicate with friends and families....I hacked into the hospital network in the middle of the night.
Have you tried to sleep in a sitting up position? I does help when you're suffering with CHF. There is a treatment they can do to help clear your lungs. The medication is Albuterol, and it's administered within a breathing treatment. They don't like to use it, but sometimes the benefit outweigh the risk, and this is one of those times. It takes about 20 minutes, but it works quite well to restore breathing, and it dries the fluids in the lungs.
The lasix would be a great medication for followup, after the Albuterol. Then the addition of Coreg to help your heart beat stronger, and to help it move the fluid out of your system.
I have a defib/pacemaker about the size of a cell phone, just under the skin in my left chest, and it definately helps with the HR, so you might mention it to your cardilogist.
I hope the best for you. Don't give up.....hang in there...it can get better.
Have you tried to sleep in a sitting up position? I does help when you're suffering with CHF. There is a treatment they can do to help clear your lungs. The medication is Albuterol, and it's administered within a breathing treatment. They don't like to use it, but sometimes the benefit outweigh the risk, and this is one of those times. It takes about 20 minutes, but it works quite well to restore breathing, and it dries the fluids in the lungs.
The lasix would be a great medication for followup, after the Albuterol. Then the addition of Coreg to help your heart beat stronger, and to help it move the fluid out of your system.
I have a defib/pacemaker about the size of a cell phone, just under the skin in my left chest, and it definately helps with the HR, so you might mention it to your cardilogist.
I hope the best for you. Don't give up.....hang in there...it can get better.
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