Patients With Heart Failure Still Undertreated

http://heartdisease.about.com/

(scroll to the middle of page where you will see this topic) Please let me know if it does not work. Otherwise you can go to about.com and type in heart disease and it should give you a list of sites, with the about.com heart and cardi. part where you can find this article.

This is always encouraging (said tongue in cheek!!!) when you read an article like this. However, while this study was conducted in Canada, past studies have shown that American and European doctors tend to behave similarly with regard to the treatment of heart failure, and it is quite likely that these results reflect the standard of practice for Western medicine. ARghhhh!!

The article also talks about the most recent guidelines from the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology emphasizing the use of these drugs in all patients with heart failure.

Finally had a chance to read this one and it was a good

one! 

I was on an ace inhibitor and calcium blocker (beta blockers can cause problems with someone who has asthma - me).  They took me off of both of those, as my normally low BP was really sinking.  Though, the Digoxin seemed to be helping to keep me compensated.  Recently, as many know, my heart started to go back into both right and left sided heart failure once again, just the tip of the iceberg though - this time I continued with the Digoxin, but they had to add Lasix only prn as that, too can cause low BP.  Now I'm on Coreg 'the wonder drug' for heart failure and after one week, I am definitely noticing some results - no asthma, but I'm on a low dose for now!  Still causes some tiredness, but I'm starting to feel some strength returning!  The swelling is gone for the most part - I'm sure that's helping as well. 

So there are plenty of medications out there for heart failure patients, as you all can see - if only more Dr.'s would utilize them!

Thanks again for the article, Kathy!  I hope you are doing okay?  Is the coreg helping you at all yet?

Bunches of Hugs, Teri