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Heart Rhythm Conditions | Last Active: Jan 17 9:12am | Replies (12)

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@dizzyprizzy

Get a second opinion. Not that the treatment offered will be much different. The docs all want to treat me as a patient with heart disease and other diseases. I, like you, have no heart disease or co-morbidities. No high blood pressure, no diabeties, not over weight, control sodium to under 1500mg daily by diet, exercise 5-6 days, 180-200 minutes weekly. My heart failure is diagnosed as idiopathic cardiomyopathy with LBBB causing erratic PVCs that often exceed 10%-35% of my beats in any given minute. This means my heart failure has no known cause. Two cardilogists told me, one from the Mayo, that is is likely caused by a unknown virsus. Covid??. I looked it up people like us represent .28% of women in this country diagonosed with heart failure. The docs are treating us with medicines developed for the 99.72% of the HF women patients. I keep advocating for the least treatments that won't jeapardize my excellent health with drugs that are not proven to help my condition.

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Read the Empire study. It does show an improvement using Jardiance in HFpEF patients. They have no idea why, but the results are conclusive.

Now…understand that their measure is based solely on reduced HOSPITAL STAYS from this condition.

But, I breathe somewhat easier on it than off.

Milk thistle…use it daily to help kidneys and liver retain healthy function even though I take these drugs

Interesting your cardiologist believe your condition was caused by a virus. I never had covid, but three weeks after my third vaccine, I needed a pacemaker. It’s been down hill since. Now, the HFpEF.
Do you find your symptoms are increasing or are stable?