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Well Hello! I haven't been here for awhile, I have been in a state of denial and came back to read but just browsed and ran off. My family was all to willing to accomodate my hiding and I put the heart situation on the shelf while I went about raising my three grandchildren. Of course I functioned business as usual and stayed on my meds but found it very easy to avoid all doctors except GP.
Well- wham! Tuesday night I hadn't been feeling too good all day, could have been from grocery shopping, getting ice melt for the snow that was planning to come and ignoring that my feet and hands became double sized. I been having alot of trouble with numbness lately. I foolishly thought it was just a foot injury due to chopping ice from the previous snow. At about 11 in the evening, I went to get up from my chair after tending to everybody, my husband travels so its me, the kids, ages 10, 11 and 13 and the dog, fish and turtle.
I could feel it getting black on the sides of my head and boy did I get scared! I called my nurse friend and she came, I struggled with going to emergency room because it was going to snow any minute and everybody I knew was already in bed, so therefore the kids would be left alone, she took my blood pressure and she said it was not bad, earlier it was reading really low at the grocery store.
Next day I did go to the GP and he said the swelling didn't seem too bad, but when he got to listening to my neck, got really concerned. SAid he could hear a very pronunced delay in the blood return to my vein there. so he stopped my Altace and told me just to stay on the one HCTZ and the generic Toprol XL. He did say that he felt I had entered a critical phase and scheduled an echo for the next day.
Now I am really scared and ready to hunt down surgeons and feeling pretty bad because I didn't care for my cardio because I don't know if you will remember, but way back when he said he didn't want to send me to a surgeon until I had lost 50 lbs. I have lost 10, but not 50.
Sorry its taken this long to get to the point but today the GP's office called and the nurse said the doctor had made an appointment with the old cardiologist for 6 weeks from now and when I said but can you tell me what the echo said, she said the doctor noted no great changes since my last echo but showing symptoms. So my confusion is, now what do I do? Just wait for more symptoms, continue with the surgeon search, look for a new cardiologist, breath a sign of relief, all of the above. I have never quite felt like I did that night before, I drive two hours a day to take the kids to their school and it made me think about what if I blacked out on the road? Is this normal behavior for aortic stenosis, or am I just really confused and not too bright?
Well- wham! Tuesday night I hadn't been feeling too good all day, could have been from grocery shopping, getting ice melt for the snow that was planning to come and ignoring that my feet and hands became double sized. I been having alot of trouble with numbness lately. I foolishly thought it was just a foot injury due to chopping ice from the previous snow. At about 11 in the evening, I went to get up from my chair after tending to everybody, my husband travels so its me, the kids, ages 10, 11 and 13 and the dog, fish and turtle.
I could feel it getting black on the sides of my head and boy did I get scared! I called my nurse friend and she came, I struggled with going to emergency room because it was going to snow any minute and everybody I knew was already in bed, so therefore the kids would be left alone, she took my blood pressure and she said it was not bad, earlier it was reading really low at the grocery store.
Next day I did go to the GP and he said the swelling didn't seem too bad, but when he got to listening to my neck, got really concerned. SAid he could hear a very pronunced delay in the blood return to my vein there. so he stopped my Altace and told me just to stay on the one HCTZ and the generic Toprol XL. He did say that he felt I had entered a critical phase and scheduled an echo for the next day.
Now I am really scared and ready to hunt down surgeons and feeling pretty bad because I didn't care for my cardio because I don't know if you will remember, but way back when he said he didn't want to send me to a surgeon until I had lost 50 lbs. I have lost 10, but not 50.
Sorry its taken this long to get to the point but today the GP's office called and the nurse said the doctor had made an appointment with the old cardiologist for 6 weeks from now and when I said but can you tell me what the echo said, she said the doctor noted no great changes since my last echo but showing symptoms. So my confusion is, now what do I do? Just wait for more symptoms, continue with the surgeon search, look for a new cardiologist, breath a sign of relief, all of the above. I have never quite felt like I did that night before, I drive two hours a day to take the kids to their school and it made me think about what if I blacked out on the road? Is this normal behavior for aortic stenosis, or am I just really confused and not too bright?
