Doc - I want to cut you open and look for stuff. Me - Now?. Doc - No, I can wait. Here, take these pills. #DocVisitSimplfiedIn more detail - My heart is too big. Either I had a virus that attacked the muscle or an actual heart attack. Medicine for now.but "exploratory surgery" may lie in my futureI will explain to the doctors that I actually WANT the giant Frankenstein chest scars if possible. @phinmagic to quote the Venture Bros. "Ever since da Iron Man, everybody wants da robot heart" http://bit.ly/6ZrrP5
My Big Floppy HeartAfter seeing a cardiologist we are not really closer to definitively saying that "Event X" triggered my sickness. For my age, the most likely cause was a virus that attacked the muscle of my heart leaving it weakened and stretched out. the other less likely option was some kind of mild heart attack.The end result is that my heart is pumping at 50% efficiency and it knows this - so it's also trying to pump at twice the speed to compensate. This causes all the fluid circulation of the body to be thrown off. A side effect of this makes a foamy spit like substance seep into my lungs - the cause of my hack and cough, while more fluids leak into the soft tissues of my legs and feet causing them to swell. Overall this condition is called Congestive Heart Failure. Wheeee.The best option right now is medication. I'm taking a cocktail of med's to lower my blood pressure in the Doctor's hope that my heart can just heal itself. Right now we are trying to acclimate my body to the medication so that the dosages can slowly be increased. Since I started the med's my appetite has been easily cut in half; and some days it is hard to eat anything. On the upside I've lost 25lbs.