Wanted to share my good news

• by joy1
• 2008-08-22 07:08:48
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Hi everyone,

I wanted to share my good news from going into my cardiac doctor. About a week ago I went into see him because I kept feeling like I was going to faint and was short of breath. It was really random though. Turns out it isn't my heart but my blood pressure. So, my doctor lowered my Toperal (Yeah! claps hands). It seems to have helped some relieve some of my tiredness, but I'm still having the blood pressure problems. So he scheduled a treadmill. I absolutely hate them but fear the drug induced ones more. This one wasn't so bad.

Yesterday, I went in for a treadmill. When they did the echocardiogam, he said the undamaged part of my heart is working perfectly and is now normal sized where it had been slightly enlarged. The treadmill was to try and figure out why I kept feeling faint. It turns out that as soon as I'm up moving around my blood pressure drops, then when I stop moving it drops even lower until it levels out again. It's very weird. But because of this, he reduced my enalapril by half. He thinks that will help to allow my blood pressure to return to a more normal level. I have hypotension to start with and though I have been on the same dosages of medication for about 2 years, guess my body is changing. I sure hope it works. He said I would know in a couple of days.

I just wanted to share what I thought was good news.

joy