Hi Storri: I can sure identify with you. I've seen "suspected pericarditis" throughout my records for a period of almost three years but received absolutely no treatment for it, in the early stages...
Hi Christine: I'm glad you started this new thread. It was getting hard reading all of the last ones. I'm off and on this site. I have CP and it is pretty much inoperatable because it occurred after...
Hi John: I'm not sure if my by-passes were done differently but my follow-up appears to have been seriously lacking. Apparently I had Dressler's Syndrome for months and months and my doctors didn't...
Hi gang: I've been offline for several weeks. I finally got transferred to Duke University Hospital and another diagnosis of CP (a fourth medical opinion). Everyone agrees that I am inoperable due to...
Teri: I had no idea you were in the "Bypass Club" with me. I like that term better than being called a cabbage (CABG). Now I understand your willingness to donate so much time to this forum. Thank...
Hello: I know this is a rare condition and I have obtained all I can find on the Internet about it but am looking for anyone that may have personal experience. If you have or know someone that has,...
Hello, Moon Sun: You didn't say how old your were but with a lot of conditions, including heart disease, it doesn't really matter. Two and a half years ago, I went for a routine physical including a...
Hi gang: I found this new thread too, so I presume my brain hasn't completely calcified along with everything else. I do have a question. Do any of you know anything about "Occult Constrictive...
Hi Nan: By all means get the abdominal swelling checked by your doctor. I've had several episodes that sound like what you are experiencing. The doctor called it "Ascites" in my case, which meant...
Hang in there Cath. I was exeragerating on the drain lines. None of it is bad and all of it is better than what you experience on a day to day basis now. Just think, afterwards you'll be 42, feel...
Hi Gang: Thanks for all the information. It really helps since the doctors don't have any actual experience themselves. They only know what they read and guess on their own. I laughed when read about...
Hi Gang: Thanks Mister. I'm not sure which symptoms can be attributed to the liver failure. I usually start feeling very ill after I've been up for three or four hours. Its a nauseated feeling but...
Sorry, that's a typo above. It should read "heart disease" not "heard disease." Les...
Hi everyone. I just returned from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston where I had some additional tests. I was informed I was an "enigma" so I guess this condition is as rare as we...
Thanks Teri: I'm scheduled for a second opinion next Wednesday (May 25?) but I'm worried its like the one I got from Emory. The doctor there seem to accept the first doctor's opinion at face value...
I have recently been diagnosed with constrictive pericarditis by a cardiologist at a VA hospital but after reading about the symptoms others experience, I am not convinced that I have it. I have a...
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