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Hi @haasil and welcome to the family. I hope folks here can help answer your question. This support group has been an amazing support for me. I assume you probably found the video https://www.camzyos.com/resources#video1 but in case you haven't, I recommend it. But first, I am no expert - I'm just an idiot who watched a video. So take everything that follows with that in mind.... The way I understand it, Camzyos doesn't actually cause any structural changes to your heart (thinning out the the thickened muscle), but it also doesn't really just treat/mask the symptoms either. Rather, it affects how the compounds myosin and actin interact with each other to help your heart contract and relax better. So while the Camzyos is in your body, it helps the heart pump better DESPITE the thickened muscles. But if you go off Camzyos, (when the last traces are washed out of your body), things go back to the way they were - same thickened muscles as always, but back to the old impaired contract-relax cycle. Now that being said, I'm defining "symptoms" as "the things I feel." But if you define "symptoms" as "the things I feel AND the numbers that show up on an echocardiogram" (see the post from @andyherman3), then YES, Camzyos is working on the symptoms. But again, not just by masking them. Did that make sense? It made perfect sense in my head, and I hope it translated properly. For what it's worth, I was lucky enough to be eligible for Camzyos, and that it worked immediately and amazing well for me. 17 years of debilitating symptoms 100% gone in under 2 weeks. Whatever you elect to do, I wish you good fortune!

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Hi @boatsforlife and thank you for the nice family welcome. I have had great information in the responses to my questions from this support group and they are very much appreciated. I am so thankful for your information and you have helped me more than you know. I wasn't able to get any clear answers to the reduction of thickening from research online or my cardiologists so I also came to the conclusion that the Camzyos pill did not alter that but did do it's job to help the heart pump better, more efficiently, and get that blood to where it needed to be easier and relieve the symptoms. Your clear explanation made perfect, understandable sense and is a great help in making up my mind....thank you for helping me understand what, at times, the professionals couldn't. I also wish you continued good health and many, many days of smooth sailing ahead. Thanks again!