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Hi Iveyrose,
I have ischemic cardiomyopathy along with a number of other heart problems. I can't help you or anyone regarding symptoms as I'm asymptomatic. I suffered an AMI (Acute myocardial infarction)/STEMI widowmaker with irreversible progressive damage without angina pectoris. Angina pectoris which means chest pains. I have bronchial asthma as I was born with it and have had breathing problems all my life. I showed up in the ER for what I thought was an uncontrolled asthma attack. I now have begun to feel chest pains but not to the point I feel it necessary to go to the ER. I have rescue meds and I take those and keep going.
I also have Chronic systolic congestive heart failure HCC, essential hypertension, idiopathic hypotension, syncope, and Chronic fatigue although I'm never tired. There is nothing about my conditions that follow a normal track of care.
Take care,
Robin
@A MyHeartDiseaseTeam Member I have Ischemic cardiomyopathy along with chronic systolic heart failure. Have had 6 heart attacks, have had bypass surgery, have 5 stents, and an implanted pacemaker/defibrillator. I have chest pains on a regular basis, short of breath a lot, can't hold up to exercise, can only walk very short distances at a time. Only thing is, everyone with the same diagnosis may or may not have the same symptoms. With the 6 heart attacks, I had chest pains, along with a couple other symptoms in 5 of them, the last one I had no symptoms. With the last one, I went to the ER not being able to breathe but very little, they diagnosed me with exaserbation of COPD and pneumonia. The next morning, they wheeled me to the cath lab, opened an artery in the heart, put a stent in, and ended up fishing a stent out of the bottom of my left leg. It was a couple months later my cardiologist told me that I had another heart attack. With the list of symptoms, we may get all, or just some of them or none of them. The list of systems is mainly a list so we can know the importance of getting into the ER quickly. I hope this was of help.
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