Edema Sucks AKA Heart Failure Is A Bother

15.2 LBS of fluid in my feet and legs right now. They gave me compression socks, but they slide down on me and bunch up on my ankle and cut off the circulation to me feet. For that reason I don't put them on. I wish I could have them work for me correctly, but that is not to be. They tend to work like a charm and keep you from having painful swelling in your feet like this. By the end of the day, I tend to be in a fair bit of pain (lever 5 or 6) - and it is a stinking, and burning feeling. This stems from heart failure after I had a heart attack years ago. The Entresto is keeping me alive, or I'd probably be long dead by now. I've been given industrial strength meds to shed the fluid, but when it flairs it doesn't seem to do the job for a couple of weeks. It's rather amazing - I drink 1 cup of  coffee and 4 glasses of water, then I pee out 30 glasses of water, and it still gets worse for days. It doesn't make any sense to me at all. I've got no idea where the fluid is coming from, but I'm not trained to know that either. Still it used to be worse, so I feel lucky to have the new meds for it. BTW, this heart failure is most likely what will kill me in the end, I'll have another heart attack and dead on the floor I will go.


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