Sunday/Monday, August 16/24, 15: THE QUESTION IS, DO I PREFER A BIG BELLY OR BIG ANKLES? After days thinking about it, this title is not quite right. I asked Drs. if my abdominal edema (AE) is caused as my weak heart allows liquid my kidneys, can no longer process to build up in the chest/abdomen to leak through tissues into my stomach, intestines, etc., as it does build into my lungs. They just say keep taking bumex regularly. But my belly gets bloated and I get stomachaches. (I learned this is mostly from antibiotics killing my good bacteria and that yukky yogurt returns those good bacteria.) Bloating persists. I now think the leaked liquid enters abdominal fat cells and that the new process of i-lipposuction may rid me of what those cells hold. But what then will happen to new liquid build ups? I think it might be peed out in the morning rather than go to my ankles. For some reason bumex can’t get to all the stuff in my abdomen so when those cells disappear, what?
My ICD/pacemaker doctor last week said that I had been in a very dangerous arrhythmia called atrial fibrillation constantly for the last 11 days. This is pretty unusual and he Rx'ed amiodarone. Last year my heart was burned, ablated, for Atrial flutter. Fib is a more confused pattern, like flutter. This seems to explain why I have had increased breathing trouble of late and have had dizziness and fatigue. Also, my stomach swells on these panic attacks and my cardiologist thinks that comes from my heart too. But I have had lots of infections fought by antibiotics of late and the probiotic in nasty-behind Yoplait seems to calm one part of the bloating. I've been trying different kinds of laxatives, which do seem to help for a day or two. Stress over recent multiple surgeries that I've not spoken about and family stuff have likely contributed to these conditions.
My ICD/pacemaker doctor last week said that I had been in a very dangerous arrhythmia called atrial fibrillation constantly for the last 11 days. This is pretty unusual and he Rx'ed amiodarone. Last year my heart was burned, ablated, for Atrial flutter. Fib is a more confused pattern, like flutter. This seems to explain why I have had increased breathing trouble of late and have had dizziness and fatigue. Also, my stomach swells on these panic attacks and my cardiologist thinks that comes from my heart too. But I have had lots of infections fought by antibiotics of late and the probiotic in nasty-behind Yoplait seems to calm one part of the bloating. I've been trying different kinds of laxatives, which do seem to help for a day or two. Stress over recent multiple surgeries that I've not spoken about and family stuff have likely contributed to these conditions.