Try everything. You might even try the laying flat compared to laying on your
side, taking notes of just how difficult it feels to breathe in each position,
and seeing if it has gotten worse. It's not good for me breathing on my back
and even my pulse-ox is worse. I literally start taking notes with issues. That
way I can look back and say this started at this time, then this happened, etc.
Helps give perspective. Hang in there!
On Saturday, July 31, 2021, 12:12:45 PM PDT, Greg <[email protected]> wrote:
I have no idea, but I've seen 2 cardiologists and they both gave me the OK.
EKGs, Ultrasounds, etc.
It is a bit harder to breath when flat, but it always has been.
I go back to the one who did the heart ablation in a week or so. It all
started after that. But my heart checks out ok.
I'm leaning towards diaphragm issues right now. The ablation goes up the leg
by the diaphragm. And I read that getting intubated can mess up your diaphragm.
Plus I feel its my inhale thats an issue. Long pauses, and harder than before.
Just a light help inhale from the respirator helps a lot.
Hopefully the EMG and Sniff test will show something.
Thx, Greg
On 7/31/2021 9:51 AM, Eric Olson wrote:
Hey Greg,
Been thinking about your breathing problems. Is it harder to breathe when
you lie flat? Are you sure this isn't cardiac related?
On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 2:27 PM Greg <[email protected]> wrote:
I think I might be a little psychic. I wrote the below message about 2 hours
ago on my tablet so I can use the voice typing easier. Then I forward it to my
Facebook, then copy it to an email. But before I could send it, I got stuck
AGAIN. This time I was out front and I hit my recline button, but when I let
go, it kept reclining. Then none of the buttons work. I was able to yell and
get help, but nothing they could do. I had to call the fire department so they
could get me inside and into bed. There's no way my reclining chair would fit
around the corners. But the fireman played around with the wires and it started
working. Thank God. I'd hate to be stuck in bed for who knows how long. I'd
have to get a prescription, send it to the repair place, get the appointment,
have them look at it, order parts, then schedule another appointment to have it
fixed. I hate dealing with insurance. Being that you need a wheelchair you
should just be able to go straight up there without all that waiting.
This was my earlier message.
I was sitting out front today, I decided to put the smell set of weight on my
wrist. I had an iced coffee in one hand and I hit the recline button with the
other. But when I tried to hit the recline button to sit back up my fingers got
caught in the recline button cable. With a little extra weight on my hand I was
not able to get to the button. I tried to use my other hand to hook on the
armrest for leverage, but it slipped off and my hand went to my shoulder with
the coffee cup upside down. Luckily I was able to knock the coffee cup off my
hand and hook my arm rest for better Leverage and got to my recline button.
Lucky it didn't take too long it's about a hundred degrees out and who knows
how long I would have laid there.
Got me thinking, I think I've been stuck like that or similar 3 times. Been
stuck in gravel many times but not like that. Once I was on my way home and I
tipped forward and couldn't sit back up. I laid with my head in my lap until a
bicyclist came by and helped me to sit up. Another time would like today
without the weights, but I was stuck I could reach the button, and yelled until
finally a neighbor heard me. I think the worst one, was when I was going out
the back door one wheel went over the threshold the the bump made me fall
forward, and I was jammed in the doorway, it was about a hundred ten degrees
out. I was there for so long and got overheated. At least I've learned to
always wear my chest strap even when I'm home and families in the house. I just
can't yell loud enough.
Greg
