How serious is Chronic heart failure, with high blood preasure.?!


Question: I have experienced two congestive heart failures.

The second one almost cost me my life; I was in ICU for 2 days until I came around.

Unfortunately, it caused damage to my heart's left ventricle, and wasn't pumping blood at the rate it was normally doing.

This is called hypertophic cardiomyopathy, the condition I have.

Please, by all means; take your blood pressure pills if you have high blood pressure.

My condition was caused by a number of things, primarily a flu virus the docs said, and I did have the flu at the time of both incidents.

Being sick can raise your blood pressure.

Speaking from personal experience, it is very serious, and has caused me several problems, including the inability to work the jobs I had, cannot lift weights any longer, nor run or jog.

I get out of breath climbing even the smallest stairs, sometimes just from walking for awhile, and often get very fatigued for no reason, because my heart is still weak.

My condition has improved, but the damage has been done, and my own life expectancy isn't all that great.

Please take care of yourself and God Bless.


Answers: I have experienced two congestive heart failures.

The second one almost cost me my life; I was in ICU for 2 days until I came around.

Unfortunately, it caused damage to my heart's left ventricle, and wasn't pumping blood at the rate it was normally doing.

This is called hypertophic cardiomyopathy, the condition I have.

Please, by all means; take your blood pressure pills if you have high blood pressure.

My condition was caused by a number of things, primarily a flu virus the docs said, and I did have the flu at the time of both incidents.

Being sick can raise your blood pressure.

Speaking from personal experience, it is very serious, and has caused me several problems, including the inability to work the jobs I had, cannot lift weights any longer, nor run or jog.

I get out of breath climbing even the smallest stairs, sometimes just from walking for awhile, and often get very fatigued for no reason, because my heart is still weak.

My condition has improved, but the damage has been done, and my own life expectancy isn't all that great.

Please take care of yourself and God Bless.

Sorry, not good.

It is about as serious as you can get! Real bad combination time to take some medicine and get that blood pressure down!

Very serious,controlled with medication

Unfortunately, CHF with Hypertension can be very serious for most people. Taking meds to lower your BP will ease the workload of the heart. However, my mom, takes BP lowering meds & water reducing meds to help her pee. This also keeps the bodys water capacity down and keeps a decreased heart fluid volume and workload low. If taken off either med(s), then one works against the other and the results are usually harmful or even life threatening. Good Luck :O)

erm what do you think?
chronic heart failure is bad enought but accompanied with high blood pressure is a recipe for disaster.
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Heart failure is a problem always to be taken very seriously. There are however, many good and effective treatments. If the failure is the direct result of poor bp control this is eminently treatable. In this situation the pressure is causing the heart to fail because of the excessive work load it causes. If blood pressure is the only factor in the heart failure, once it is well controlled the heart failure should resolve.





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