Living With Heart Failure For 30 Years

I had been battling a cold for a while and thought it was just my asthma symptoms.

Living with heart failure for 30 years. Of congestive heart failure in younger adults the five year risk of chf among 40 year old whites is estimated to be 0 1 to 0 2. Congestive heart failure community 1 61k members has anyone survived chf over 30 years. Queen latifah s mother rita owens has died after living with heart failure for 14 years the actress and singer said yesterday. It s a long term condition that becomes progressively worse over time.

I am feeling better each day. Just wondering are there patients living with lv chf for over thirty years or more. Later that same day i experienced a sharp throbbing pain in my right leg. I was diagnosed with lv chf 30 35 in 2006.

When i was 25 years old i was living in savannah georgia when my life changed drastically. First of all heart failure is an unfortunate and inaccurate term says lynne warner stevenson md the director of the cardiomyopathy and heart failure. From the time of diagnosis half of people live less than five years with chf but survival varies by location in the u s. 30 in the morning and a friend drove me to the hospital.

In this article we look at the symptoms stages and life. Living with congestive heart failure may limit your activities but with the right care and treatment many adults still enjoy life. I ended up going to my doctor and receiving a diagnosis of walking pneumonia. I was rushed to the emergency room were it was then determined.

Congestive heart failure is a progressive disease that causes the heart to weaken making it difficult to pump blood around the body. Congestive heart failure chf is a condition in which the muscles of your heart are no longer able to pump blood effectively. Sixteen years later i started experiencing heart disease symptoms too. I have a wonderful cardiologists who promised that he could help strengthen my heart and.

Heart failure and aging. Although the risk of heart failure does not change as you get older you are more likely to have heart failure when you are. The important word there. The condition is the leading cause of hospitalization in people over age 65.