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heartbeat too fast with congestive heart failure
Heart & Blood Health | Last Active: Nov 29, 2017 | Replies (33)Comment receiving replies
>> walls of the heart have become thick (13-19) and leathery, forcing the heart to beat faster but less efficiently to pump the proper supply of blood.
Sounds like you're describing heart failure, and that happens most often simply because of old age. Our bodies wear out. That's why it's becoming more common. We live longer, so we end up with diseases related to the body starting to break down.
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@soloact Yes, it is heart failure, and there are other disorders besides Cardiac Amyloidosis that can cause this, including Athlete's heart, and others. And I have been dX with some of them. But with a low voltage in the QRS EKG, that is a pretty clear evidence of cardiac Amy. The Amy fibrils interrupt the sensori-motor nerve channels and shut down the message channels. Enlarged heart, with heart failure but still full voltage to the Ventricular walls is simple heart failure, but not Amyloidosis.
@ama233 Surely it could. The problem is that anything that interrupts the blood flow anywhere in the body COULD cause change to your feet. Most docs will assume that any flow difficulty to your feet will be caused by diabetes. It is not necessarily correct, but sometimes it is, and that is good enough for most doctors.
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So the increased medication for the heart failure and resulting lower BP and pulse rate would not cause any change in circulation to my extremities, particularly my feet? Since I have diabetes (no neuropathy in feet), this concerned me.