I'd like to give an update. Margaret Redfield, MD, Cardiologist at Mayo Clinic, gave me a staging of Stage C, Class 3 of heart failure. I was tweeked into a treatment of Sglut 2 inhibitors by a very minor A1C level, because those have not been yet approved for diastolic heart failure. To anyone suffering with this, this medicine will help you. I am now on Farxiga. The cause of my heart failure seems to be either connective tissue disease (Mayo Clinic favored.) or the treatment of that by Plaquenil, which my local Cardiologist, Garrick Stewart, of the Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston, thinks is a distinct possibility, given recent compelling case studies. The only way to rule out the Plaquenil is another heart catheterization to take for samples of heart tissue to review under an electron microscope. I am leaning towards this because I need to keep Plaquenil if it is helping me or stop it if it is the cause!

But I have cold feet about another heart cath procedure!

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