Damn, this cycle is never ending. Short of breath because abdominal cavity has excess water in it. Dispite being on 80 mg of lasix, ain't gettin' no relief here, except in the legs. So I remain short of breath, with rales and obscured sounds in the lung lobes. But my oxygen saturation is 94 to 96 percent. How can THAT be when I can't catch my breath? When I pant like a dog on a hot August day just walking from the living room to the bathroom? And sometimes just sitting here doing nothing I can't breathe, either.
Something ain't right, folks! I should be peeing like a racehorse and I'm not. A week ago my kidney functions were just slightly - and I do mean slightly- elevated. So why isn't the water leaving my system? I am peeing, but a normal amount. Drinking more fluids to flush out the UTI, but not peeing more than what I am taking in. This makes no sense!
Can barely hold my breath for 10 seconds after using my asthma inhalers. Get dizzy standing there waiting for another 2 minutes to pass so I can inhale again.
Headed in to 3 weeks with cardiologist and can't see much improvement. Hey, I don't expect miracles, but I do expect to be able to BREATHE! Fatigued. Not sleeping. Dizzy but that is probably mostly if not totally Meniere's (since I took the header in to the tub about 2 weeks ago, and the cardiologist took me off the HCTZ. Some mild nausea on occasion, but certainly not constant nor normally in conjunction with worst of shortness of breath. No jaw line pain. No back pain. No chest pain. No paid radiating down left arm. No feeling of impending doom. Oh, but the leg and body cramps I've had over the past 3 weeks. Felt like my muscles were trying to dislocated my good hip that one night. Wallered on the floor like a dog. Big toe bent backwards so far I feared it was going to cramp. Hand cramps that make my hand look deformed. Charley horses in back of thighs that last for up to an hour. Charley horses in calf that last forever as well. Can't walk them out. And the cardiologist tells me I'll just have to "deal with the leg cramps." May he be so inflicted with muscle spasms for the rest of his life!
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