Pacemaker with CHF

Most all warning signs regarding CHF are weight gain and edema.  While cruzing the 'net this AM, I stumbled across info that no one else (including Doctors) has broached before: Weight loss with heart failure. A BAD, BAD thing!  Generally indicates the G.I. tract isn't getting the oxygenated blood flow that it requires to process the vitamins and minerals out of what one eats. Ones future with this condition is grim.

--Dave--

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Perspective: Use it or Lose it

by Gotrhythm - 2019-06-01 15:28:18

My mother used to quote a Bible verse : "Sufficient unto the day is the trouble thereof."

Lots of bad things can happen, from a meteor striking in the Earth, to a Zombie Apocalypse. Okay the zombie-thing isn't real. How about earthquakes? They actually can happen anywhere.

Every cell in the body needs a good blood supply, and will not function ideally without it. Anybody who suffered "brain fog" from bradycardia has had expereince with the effects of poor oxygenation. Don't know why anyone would be surprised to learn that the intestines need oxygenation too, and can't do their job well if they don't get it.

When I was young a diagnosis of heart failure was a death sentence. With today's drugs, and various heart-assist devices, people live 10-20 years after the diagnosis--meaning many will live out an average life span.

Worrying about all the ways CHF can affect the body isn't going to hellp.

You know you're wired when...

You can finally prove that you have a heart.

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A properly implanted and adjusted pacemaker will not even be noticeable after you get over the surgery.