Chronic Health Conditions Discussion and Support

Whoa there, just hold on for a minute.
I'm really sorry to have to say this, but doctors are real a**holes sometimes. My very own personal doctor told me that I have a 'baggy' heart and the doctor in the emergency room told me that I have 'congestive heart failure.' I rushed home after the 'baggy' heart diagnosis to look it up and scared the beecheesus out of myself. After the 'congestive heart failure' bit, I didn't bother to rush home and look it up; I just accepted my fate with resignation.

After 10 long months (yes, folks, you have read that correctly) and oodles upon oodles of tests of every kind and description, I finally saw a cardiologist who told me (with barely disguised disgust at the previous diagnosticians) that I do not have a baggy heart, nor do I have congestive heart failure.

What I do have is 'broken heart syndrome' or TAKOTSUKO as I will explain in another post as I am a newbie here and must reply to 10 posts or more before I am allowed to start a new thread.

Please consider carefully about accepting a diagnosis from your regular doctors; make sure you are referred to a cardiologist first.

Wishing you all the best.