Thank you, hopeful33250,for answering so quickly!

My symptoms? I began having quite a bit of shortness of breath in April just when I would walk down the hall from the bedroom to the living room , and sleeping- a lot. I felt as if I was full of fluid (in the abdomen along with weight gain) and spent many nights in the recliner because I couldn't sleep lying down. The fatigue was tremendous. Sometimes my right foot swells and sometimes both ankles swell.

(a note: I felt exactly like this in 2017, and the test they did then, (U/S and VQ scan) showed increased Right pulmonary pressures. It did get better, however, and there were no follow-up tests since then, until this time.) I just marked it down to a post polio syndrome crash.

This time, when I felt as if I was full of fluid, I had some diuretics here that the doctor prescribed when I had the earlier spell in 2017. There were only a few left and of course they were outdated, but still they did help some.

One other symptom: The reason I went to the hospital was because I woke up that Sunday morning (July 12th) with some chest pain Left upper chest. It went away, and then came back about noon. That was the reason I went to the ER. I probably would not have gone except for the fact that they had called earlier and told me my cardiac perfusion test showed I had lateral ischemia and needed a Cardiac Cath.

Thanks for asking, and I appreciate so much your responding!
btw, hubby agrees with you about the second opinion.

annierae