having problems sleeping on my left side and stomach, can only sleep on my back because of chest pain (angina)?
i having angina pains for about 15 yrs, altho i live a relatively normal life, i am 34 yrs old, and is recieving treatment for hypertension. Towards the end of last yr, i drank/smoked heavily and woke and started having problem sleeping on my left side, if i try to, i have a feeling that my heart is filling up with blood and cannot pump them out effectively, i have to lie on my back to sleep or sit up.i also feel some discomfort or slight pain in my chest when i try to check my blood pressure. My doctor recommended an ECG, heart Echo and x-ray, the ecg was normal as well as the xray, but the cardiac echo test showed that i have enlarged left ventricle and thick endo…, but my doctor doesn’t says he doesn’t think the enlarged left venticle is responsible for my not been able to sleep on my left side, he told me take my bp drugs more often (captopril, norvasc, delayed action nitrates) and some NAID. He also recommended that i take GTN or some nitrates to relieve me of the pain when its very intense, i tried it and i got some relief last night, I want to know whats really wrong with me, is my condition getting worse, will the pain go away eventually or is it the beginning of the end for me…
i have stopped drining and smoking since this yr but my gf upset me some days ago and i went out and drank and smoked heavily, i woke up in the middle of the night with my heart racing rapidly, i felt as if i will faint, i prayed to God to save me cos i knew something terrible might happen to me, God directed me to take some atenolol which i did and immediately my heart stopped racing…what is really happening to me
Your condition can improve if you take special care of your health. Not many medication works well with alcohol. Therefore if you really want to improve your condition, then you will need to abstain from alcohol.
Your diet is very important. Include in your diet all sorts of sea foods. Also most of your diet should be fresh raw fruits and vegetables. Have both raw and cooked vegetables. Eat more raw vegetables than cooked ones. Include garlic in your diet.
Supplements that help are omegas and garlic.
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July 2nd, 2010 at 12:42 pm
I saw where you had rheumatic fever as a child and that can cause progressive heart disease. First of all, have you officially been diagnosed with angina by a doctor? Second, blood pressure medication is to be taken EVERY day at the same time. If it is prescribed once a day, take it once a day; If it is prescribed twice a day, take it twice a day. Do not skip doses even when your blood pressure is normal or when you feel well. If you have an enlarged left ventricle that could mean that you have internal heart damage or some arterial blockage; a thick endo could mean that your heart muscle has already received damage. Checking your blood pressure will not cause heart or chest pains. You seem very young to have such health problems although they are now being seen in younger patients even in children.
You should get yourself under the care of a good cardiologist (heart specialist) NOW and find out what is going on. The first thing your present doctor should have done was have you take a Nuclear Stress Test and that will tell exactly what is going on with your heart. If your doctor told you what you’ve said, he is a certifiable idiot. Any doctor with a brain knows you don’t treat a heart patient like he is treating you. Nitrates (nitroglycerin) is only a temporary fix and you can still die if you have a blocked artery, which may be part of your problem. If you do have a blockage, your heart is not getting enough oxygen and that is what is causing the pain. YOU WILL NOT GET BETTER without some serious medical intervention and it is nothing you can delay if you want to live. Delayed treatment for angina is the thing that adds new graves to the cemetery.
I’m laying it out as I see it because my husband came within HOURS of dying of a massive heart attack. He was so close he lay in the emergency room for 6 hours so he could be stabilized enough for heart surgery. He was so close the doctors wouldn’t even allow him to raise his head off the pillow. He had been having angina and didn’t tell me but slipped away to a doctor who only prescribed Nitroglycerin for the chest pain. I found a receipt for payment and backed him into a corner and made him tell me what was going on. That’s when I stepped in and took over that very minute, arranged an emergency visit with a heart specialist. He was so close to a heart attack the doctor ran out and said he wasn’t sure my husband would survive the surgery. I’m not trying to scare, you should already be scared enough to head for the emergency room now.
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July 2nd, 2010 at 1:24 pm
Your condition can improve if you take special care of your health. Not many medication works well with alcohol. Therefore if you really want to improve your condition, then you will need to abstain from alcohol.
Your diet is very important. Include in your diet all sorts of sea foods. Also most of your diet should be fresh raw fruits and vegetables. Have both raw and cooked vegetables. Eat more raw vegetables than cooked ones. Include garlic in your diet.
Supplements that help are omegas and garlic.
References :