For the past week or so I have been unable to eat very much, I have a very good diet anyway and good BMI etc. I find I can only eat a very small amount as I get bloated and feel sick, the sickness is not every day but the fullness is all the time
I have suspected heart failure and waiting for echo to find out, raised BNP levels, SVT and AF and heart block
I have looked on BHF website and NHS on heart failure but no mention of if these symptoms, however The American Heart Association lists this symptom as one of the things you can get
Does anyone else get this? Any help appreciated
Thank you
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Hi shwills, my husband has HF and he often skips meals as he's just not hungry. However, feeling full or just not hungry is not an indication of HF, there are lots of reasons for feeling full including stress or worry. When are you due to have your echo?
Hi shwills, I know you've been really worried that you have HF, but please try not to worry too much (easier said than done, I know! I'm a bit like you I can deal with things better if I know what I'm dealing with). But even if you do have HF, it really only means your heart just needs a bit of help pumping and with the right meds, diet, exercise etc there's no reason to suppose you'll not live a normal life with a normal life span. I may have suggested it before but it's worth your while looking at the HF charity pumping marvellous website, lots of positive information & support there.
Thank you for your kind words of support I have put it at the back of my mind since the BHP levels were detected but I suppose it could be just lurking there all the time
I'm in the same boat as you. My bnp levels came back at 1007pg/ml. Am getting my echo on 3rd October. The waiting is the worst. I have no other symptoms other than alot of swelling in my feet and legs and a bit short of breath. I'm only 41 and heart failure was the last thing on my mind when I went to the doctor. Can I ask what your bnp levels were? I'm sick with worry. This echo can't come quick enough! X
Some swelling of feet and legs but not all the time, extreme fatigue I do have SVT and AF, heart block and a pacemaker
My Own GP said he wasn’t too concerned even though he suspected heart failure. I have read lots on this site and it has made me realise that there is so much that can be done, also it is up to us to have very healthy diet and listen and have respect for your body.
I think if I have HF it will be manageable like my other heart conditions, must have. a positive outlook
Yes the waiting is the worst
If I have it then meds hopefully will help a lot. I can’t walk that far at all due to the breathlessness and I get extreme fatigued
I work and find I come home exhausted and if the meds help that and I am able to walk better that will be great
Can I ask you what are SVT and AF? I also an very tired but can't sleep come bedtime. I go to work (fulltime) then collect my 6 year old son and do dinner, homework, housework etc but I find I get out of breath now just mopping the floor! Your echo is the day b4 mine so it'll be interesting to see what comes up for us both. Hope all goes well for u xx
SVT is super ventricular tachycardia and Atrial fibrillation. Started with AF around 7 years ago and heart block the SVT in the last year or so. I have a good BMI and low cholesterol, the SVT and AF could be the cause of HF
I have trouble sleeping as well but think that is due partly to the heart problems and partly due to me
It’s not to long to wait now and find out I have had to wait 7 weeks for the echo and at first I was stressed but not now
I have got my head around it
you will to. One step at a time
Working is hard and exhausting but have to work and I do want to work couldn’t think what I would do if I didn’t
I'm the same. Need to work for my mental health!! Would go mad sitting at home all day! Will be glad to see the cardiologist next Wednesday for hopefully some answers. I've been having a sharp pain under my left breast today every time I breath in but it's fine when I breath out. Do u think this is anything to worry about? I'm so new to all this. Should I go to a & e or just wait for my appointment next week. Any advice would be welcome xx
I wouldn’t like to say about the sharp pain, I do get a similar thing and it comes and goes. I understand how difficult it is, you just never know if any pains etc are connected
Feeling full can be a sign of many things. Elevated blood sugar can give me it as can spicy food. I think you should run it past your doctor as other causes include GERD, ulcers and some forms of cancer including pancreatic. Probably none of these but worth checking out.
Are you on any heart meds? I'm on a clopidogrel/aspirin/bisoprolol/atorvastatin/amiodarone program (post triple bypass op). That cocktail sometimes gives me a lack of appetite.
As it happens I saw my Bangkok big hospital-based lung consultant today as I was experiencing continuing pains in my chest at random (3 months after bypass) which I thought might be a lung infection rather than the chest cutting hangover. My concern was fuelled by having woken in a pool of cold sweat at 4:30am today and by reading on the internet that chest pains will typically clear up after 3 months.
My lung consultant here in Thailand is an "old school" practitioner with a wealth of experience including working alongside the thoracic surgeon I used - another old schooler and feted for heart and lung cutting in this country.
My lung consultant said that I did not have an infection - all the symptoms I had raised were consistent with pains that can continue for at least 6 months (not 3 months) post operation. he went so far as to say that a pneumonia diagnosis I had been given a month ago by my local regional pulmo - a former student doctor of his - was "understandable but wrong"! Those, even pulmos, who don't also work along with heart/thoracic guys, don't appreciate the far reaching effects of post-operation outbreaks and end up giving faux diagnoses. So that's why my apparently faux pneumonia did not make me feel anything like as unwell as I expected!
Then coming to the relevant point to your original post he said "and do you have any appetite problems when you are experiencing these chest pains". I smiled at his perspicacity. Yes I said but I thought that was down to the meds. He confirmed that appetite loss - either occasional or longer running was another classic aftermath of heart work, meds or no meds.
Bloating might be.
As other posters had said, it could be caused by
other conditions.
Do you get any swelling in lower extremities?
There is an official name - ascites.
"Severe congestive heart failure of the right ventricle can also cause ascites, perhaps also by increased venous pressure Ascites without portal hypertension can be caused by disease involvement of the inner lining of the abdomen (peritoneum)".
Cardiologists I had known usually disliked "too many symptoms".
They go straight to look for any swelling on your feet.
That's "it".
Interesting to read that in the USA, they consider as a symptom of HF.
This might lead to a higher rate in HF diagnosis (?)
What's considered to be "faffing about" in one country is officially addressed, properly, elsewhere. . . Difference in attitude?
Hi autumnsonnet. I have had alot if swelling in my feet, ankles legs and stomach. I have put on a stone in fluid. Have been going to the doctors for over a year about it and has been dismissed every time as arthritic swelling. They have never even taken time to look at the swelling even though I look pregnant around my stomach area. Few weeks ago a new doctor sent me to have bnp levels checked which came back at 1007. I'm so disappointed with the nhs system. I am now to see cardiologists on 3rd October but feel this should have been done a year ago when the swelling 1st started. X
had this a few weeks ago, cut out nuts and dried fruit and used charcoal tablets. Are you drinking enough fluid? I think as you get older you need softer well cooked food. x?x
3) shortness of breadth while lying down flat or while bending
4) Inability to perform tasks which were easily done earlier such as lifting a grocery bag or climbing stairs
5) Swelling of feet, ankles and bloating of stomach
6) Suddenly waking up from sleep and gasping for breadth or dreaming as if climbing up a steep hill or running with extraordinary speed and feeling a gasp for breadth in the dream itself.
7) Constipation
8) Feeling depressed
9) Inability to perform even short time exercise
10) Constant higher heart rate & BP
Loss of appetite is also a symptom but if other symptoms such as shortness of breadth, excessive tiredness & swelling in feet,ankles with bloating of stomach are not felt, I doubt it is not heart failure.
Check as to whether your eyes / skin has turned yellow.
A liver functioning test may be required if the loss of appetite condition persists.
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