Coreg heart failure

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Avatar m tn My cardiologist gave me a number of 45. What does this mean? And he wants me to take Coreg. So is this heart failure or heart disease? I also have mvp and had been taking propranolol for 30 years.
Avatar f tn Normal EF is 55 to 75% and is the amount of blood pumped into circulation with each heartbeat. When the EF gets below 30%, that may indicate heart failure as that may not be enough blood/oxygen to meet the system's demand. This condition will cause shortness of breath, fatigue, etc. Many people live a productive life without much limitation in daily living with an EF in the 40's.
Avatar n tn Did the operative report state that the damaged heart cells could be revived? Coreg is the drug of choice to revive those cells. Coreg is considered by some heart patients, me included as a wonder drug, Many, many people who take the drug have seen an increase in weight when it is administered, me included. However, it helped my heart health a great deal, the the weight gain was temporary.
Avatar f tn I would be suspicious that you may have had peripartum cardiomyopathy (heart failure related to pregnancies) or the heart failure is related to the atrial fibrillation and this needs to be controlled much better. Would recommend trying to get you out of a.fib if possible.
Avatar n tn 50 mg is very often prescribed for Cardiomyopathy and Conjestive Heart Failure. Often the dose is bumped up over a period of time. I was inititally prescribed 3.175 mg twice a day, and it made me very tired, but as my body got used to it, I started taking larger and then again larger dosages until I reached 50 mg. It's a very effective medication for many people, but some people just can't tolerated it.
Avatar f tn It could be dangerous to stop the Coreg as the heart gets used to it. Stopping beta blockers could cause heart failure. You can talk it over with your doctor to make sure, but I am sure that he or she will wean you off slowing if that is what is decided. Coreg, in my opinion, is one of the best beta blockers.
Avatar f tn She has done pretty well except for the fact it caused conjestive heart failure. last februray her heart defibulator started firing alot because of racing heart. At the same time her platelets dropped dramatically to 1700,white cells are up and her stool turned cream colored. She has had a bone marrow biopsy which was negative for cancer. We still dont have any answers.
Avatar n tn My brother who is 69 years old has Type 2 diabetes, have had a stroke, high blood pressure, heart bypass surgery and now he has been diagnosed with congestive heart failure. He takes 160 mg. of Lasix per day and Potassium 3 times per day. His legs and feet are swelling, he cannot lie down to sleep because he has problem breathing when he lays down. He has major swelling in both sbove and below his waist.
Avatar m tn It really depends on what is causing the heart failure. Did you suffer a lot of heart damage when you had a heart attack?
Avatar f tn It happened to me six years ago my heart was failing and caused congested heart failure. I did not know I had a heart problem until heart failure, but if I had known there could have been treatment that prevented that event. You have had a warning and treatment will prevent further complications.
Avatar m tn After being on our Tenormin, you may feel terrific and full of energy, but after 2 weeks the opposite can happen. My mom went into heart failure and her left ventricle starting giving out after switching from Toprol XL to Tenormin (actually Atentol, Tenormin's generic). The switch may have caused this or maybe it would have happened anyways.
Avatar n tn My mother has congestive heart failure, pacemaker/defib, stent, only one working valve. They were not able to place a 2nd stent due to blockage. They did not do open heart surgery due to high risk and because her size (very thin). Recently, she was hospitalized for low b.p. , dehydration, and kidney function, low urine output, UTI. They replaced fluids and removed a lot of the b.p. lowering meds, including isosorbide, due to the concern of the low b.p.
Avatar n tn For a normal EF (55-75%) and lack thereof depends on the degree and location of heart muscle damage occurred from the '06 MI. Your sustained activities to me is an EF greater than the ESTIMATED 32% or your system has some super compensating factors. However, it is estimated 25% of the heart population has an EF below 29% (heart failure range) and don't realize they have a heart problem.
Avatar n tn Dilated cardiomyopathy often is the result of an overworked heart. The medication (coreg and lisonpril) reduces the heart workload resulting in reverse remodeling of the heart and increased EF (ejection fraction of blood pumped with each heartbeat). Six years ago I had enlarged (remodeled) left ventricle and an EF 19-29% and hospitalized for heart failure...no symptoms until CHF...thought I was very healthy, and shocked to hear I had had a silent heart attack).
Avatar m tn I also had cardiomyopathy dx w/heart failure. I think viral cardiomyopathy is a catch all when exact reason is unknown. I was originally prescribed 50 mg. of Coreg and 40 mg. of Lisinopril. Over the years I am down to 12.5 Corge and off Lisinopril although my left top half of my heart remains slightly enlarged. The coreg normally lowers the HR. My HR runs 48-50 BPM.
Avatar n tn My Dad was diagnosed several years ago with congestive heart failure. We have always found ourselves concerned with keeping his blood pressure from being too high. In the past 8 months he has been hospitalized about a dozen times for fluid overload. He has had to stop working and is basically home bound if not bed ridden some days. His blood pressure has now dropped to anywhere from 110 - 90 on the top and 40-55 on the bottom. Is this a sign that his heart has gotten worse?
Avatar n tn Quite simply you do not seem to have progressed in your heart failure to the point of needing a transplant. You are NYHA class II it seems from your symptoms, and have not ( appropriately received a BIV-ICD yet). The EF number is not as important as your functional capacity or symptoms: I would not use it as a measure of how things are going. Notice how different the echo and nuclear numbers are, for instance.
Avatar f tn On Jan 19th she had a heart attack and went into congestive heart failure. They life flighted her to a bigger hospital. They did a angiogram finding no blockage. Which made them to believe she might of had a blood clot. She was on a respirator for a few days. They tried to take her off but she went into heart failure again. Which caused her lungs to fill up again. a couple days later she was able to be put on a bpap machine and then from there just oxygen. but again her lungs filled up again.
1251660 tn?1269042464 t look at the first echo and wanted me to have another so I did and it then showed 60% function and zero weakness, no hypertrophy and he told me that I no longer had heart failure but wanted to lower my lasix to 20mgs a day and up my Coreg to 80mgs a day. I didn't quite understand why they were raising my meds if I was completely better after only 6 months and the Dr.
Avatar n tn With the caveat that in the United States some general practicioners will refer you to a specialist before prescribing a drug that is used to treat heart failure there is no reason your physician should not respond favorably to your request.
Avatar f tn I have been lucky with Coreg too, knock on wood, since it brought me out of heart failure too. I was at 27%EF and now around 48-55% I was doing as much exercise and my RA permits and would find that I would get SOB as well and I wondered if this is just part if having DCM? Have you had that too? I wonder if its just the way it is. I have had SOB sometimes without exertion and even felt like I was going to faint the other day while lying down.
Avatar m tn We start talking about heart transplant when patients are very symptomatic from heart failure requiring multiple hospital admissions and medicines cannot control their heart failure anymore. You sound to be nowhere near that point!!!
Avatar m tn Dr took me off lisinopril due to dry cough about 6 weeks ago and upped coreg to 6.25 mg. cough resolved but I have been having early morning rapid heart beat (wakes me up) in recent weeks and my tinnitus has become much worse. My upper back pain which started while on drugs is also worse since the dosage went up.