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Hello, JK (@contentandwell)
My first thought after reading your thoughtful, honest post was that I'm fortunate my situation seems less complex –– but then of course I've no idea what tomorrow holds! My chief concern, oddly enough, is not my puffiness, but my ever-worsening balance. I have been to countless specialists about my balance and done hours and hours of PT (I have noticed some improvement, but only "some"), and am currently seeing a physiatrist. I had never heard of physiatric medicine, not until my primary doctor suggested I give this fellow a try. And so I am. But unless my balance problem is in some way related to my foot and ankle puffiness, I am getting off track. I'm sorry! As you probably read in my earlier posts, my primary doctor has checked my heart and lungs, many times, and sees no problems there; she has restricted my salt intake (which, because of hypertension, she had advised years ago, but, because my blood pressure has been looking good, I grew slipshod in watching my salt intake), and suggested I wear compression stocking (which I do). Then, only the other day, because two people here on Mayo Connect had mentioned it, I discussed my Amlodipine prescription as a possibly cause of the puffiness. I have been off the Amlodipine for a week now, and already I believe I am seeing some reduction in the swelling –– but is it the Amlodipine? the reduced salt intake? the compression stockings? or all three? I don't know.
Please do let me know what you learn when you meet with your cardiologist.
Cheers!
Ray (@ray666)
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@ray666
Thanks for your input.
I think balance is a problem with many older people. I know I do not have the balance now that I once had but I am excellent at catching myself, a skill I think I developed over years of skiing, so if I do start to lose my balance I have always been able to catch it.
I have been low-sodium for years. I don't remember why I started watching my sodium but I do remember years ago noticing how salty restaurant food tastes, even at very good restaurants. I was wearing compression stockings in the cooler weather but I have pretty much given them up during the summer.
I have not been on Amlodipine unless it's another name for lisinopril or losartan. I was on lisinopril years ago but had to get off of it because it caused a constant cough, a not uncommon side effect. The doctor then changed me to losartan and I was on that for a while but my BP got better so I was able to stop taking it in 2014.
JK