Living With Heart Failure For 30 Years

First of all heart failure is an unfortunate and inaccurate term says lynne warner stevenson md the director of the cardiomyopathy and heart failure.

Living with heart failure for 30 years.

I am feeling better each day. In this article we look at the symptoms stages and life. Queen latifah s mother rita owens has died after living with heart failure for 14 years the actress and singer said yesterday. Just wondering are there patients living with lv chf for over thirty years or more.

30 in the morning and a friend drove me to the hospital. Congestive heart failure is a progressive disease that causes the heart to weaken making it difficult to pump blood around the body. The condition is the leading cause of hospitalization in people over age 65. Stay in your living room and still spike your heart rate.

Almost 6 million americans have heart failure and more than 870 000 people are diagnosed with heart failure each year. Although the risk of heart failure does not change as you get older you are more likely to have heart failure when you are. Later that same day i experienced a sharp throbbing pain in my right leg. I ended up going to my doctor and receiving a diagnosis of walking pneumonia.

Heart failure and aging. Living with congestive heart failure may limit your activities but with the right care and treatment many adults still enjoy life. The important word there. I have a wonderful cardiologists who promised that he could help strengthen my heart and.

I was diagnosed with lv chf 30 35 in 2006. Sixteen years later i started experiencing heart disease symptoms too. It s a long term condition that becomes progressively worse over time. When i was 25 years old i was living in savannah georgia when my life changed drastically.

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. 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. I had been battling a cold for a while and thought it was just my asthma symptoms.