Living With Heart Failure For 30 Years

Later that same day i experienced a sharp throbbing pain in my right leg.

Living with heart failure for 30 years.

I have a wonderful cardiologists who promised that he could help strengthen my heart and. 30 in the morning and a friend drove me to the hospital. Stay in your living room and still spike your heart rate. Sixteen years later i started experiencing heart disease symptoms too.

I am feeling better each day. Just wondering are there patients living with lv chf for over thirty years or more. The condition is the leading cause of hospitalization in people over age 65. I had been battling a cold for a while and thought it was just my asthma symptoms.

Congestive heart failure chf is a condition in which the muscles of your heart are no longer able to pump blood effectively. Queen latifah s mother rita owens has died after living with heart failure for 14 years the actress and singer said yesterday. Almost 6 million americans have heart failure and more than 870 000 people are diagnosed with heart failure each year. Of congestive heart failure in younger adults the five year risk of chf among 40 year old whites is estimated to be 0 1 to 0 2.

When i was 25 years old i was living in savannah georgia when my life changed drastically. I was rushed to the emergency room were it was then determined. In one study the incident rate in blacks was 20 times that of whites 1 of black men and women who were part of the study. Heart failure and aging.

I ended up going to my doctor and receiving a diagnosis of walking pneumonia. I was diagnosed with lv chf 30 35 in 2006. In this article we look at the symptoms stages and life. First of all heart failure is an unfortunate and inaccurate term says lynne warner stevenson md the director of the cardiomyopathy and heart failure.

The important word there. From the time of diagnosis half of people live less than five years with chf but survival varies by location in the u s. It s a long term condition that becomes progressively worse over time. Congestive heart failure community 1 61k members has anyone survived chf over 30 years.