Image via WikipediaI have Pulmonary hypertension, empathysema and heart failure so am under a consultant specialist in heart and lungs Being under a specialist is a blessing of course but can at times be a problem.If you go to your specialist and tell them you have different symptoms there is always this presumption that the symptoms are problems caused by your heart and lung problems and this is not always necessarily so.There always seems to me to be a reluctance to think outside of the box and this ignores other possibilities.
I have problems with rapid heart beat. For nearly eighteen months I have had this and there has been a automatic assumption that this is caused by my heart and lung problems but now they believe that the problem could be caused by a thyroid problem not by my heart and lung problems.I have a problem with fluid retention and have been having to go to the toilet a lot during in the night. This was presumed to be a heart and lung problem but now they believe I may be diabetic and that may be causing it.
I would like to see specialist consultants treat the patient and not just the illness. Treat us as a person and be prepared to think outside the comfort box of there own specialism for the benefit of the patient.Health, as is life itself, is complicated and often the obvious is not the solution to a
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