Congestive Heart Failure - Ultrasound Image Interpretation

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Dilated cardiomyopathy with depressed ejection fraction in a patient presenting with shortness of breath.

[@marialountzidou8815]

Hi. I had shortness of breath for too long. Almost 2 years. Actually I was just feeling heaviness in the chest like a big weight. I went to see cardiologists backthen and they told me it was due to anxiety. But that was nothing like anxiety or panic attack. I suddenly woke one day with heaviness in the chest. I was fighting up to take a deep breath when I needed it. I was unable to so I was making movements to exercise the muscles around my heart so I could take the breath I needed. I also had constant palpitations. All kind of different pains in the chest. I was unable to control my heart rate and rhythm. My heart rate was not up because I was getting tired or because of anxiety. It was up on its own and it was down on its own I had no control over this. It could not be due to anxiety because I couldn't feel like I have any communication with my heart's muscle. I was waking up in the middle of the night my heart was racing and I didn't cause this, it can't be anxiety. I was sleeping on my chest instead of my back and the heart rate was going down but not normally down. I can't even tell you what my normal rate is because when all this happened, it is the only time I started checking my paulses and I became obsessed with it. Yes I became obsessed because it was the first time I was feeling my heart pounding in my chest. I don't exercise but I knew this pound is happening only when we exercise. It was not normal but nobody was listening to me. They thought I was hypochondriac. My heart was worst when sleeping but I have a habit of rubing my feet until I fall asleep. Probably I was doing this so I don't feel the symptoms, it was a nervous reaction. Recently I had the worst symptoms that awakened me but still I don't know what that is. The last month I started exercising and making movements so I release my chest from all that pressure. I also had this lucky idea to put a hot water bottle on my chest and keep in there. I started having symptoms of a flu or like an allergy. But finally all those bad symptoms went away. I am released. The heaviness in the chest does not exist. The palpitations stopped. I still feel my chest but not the way I was feeling it before. The arrhythmias are not the way they were. I feel like I control my paulse and that the ups and downs of my paulse are caused by normal causes like getting tired after exercise or getting anxious about something. This is normal. But what I had was not normal and it was not due to anxiety. But I am still scared. I feel so released and sometimes I feel like my heart is weakened, like all this pressure, this thing that was there whatever it was, like it damaged something. I don't know. I am still afraid to sleep. Because I don't know what that was and I don't know what the new situation might mean.
If anyone has any idea what anything from what I described might be it would be very helpful because I can't go to the doctors. For my own reasons.

[@serboman01]

Trust me mate what you described here are common symptoms of myocarditis. Most doctors will say that it goes away in few weeks but its not true, actually it can take a very long time to fully recover, sometimes few years, especially if its caused from coxsackie virus B. I mean, some people recover quicker because everyone has different expirience, someone recovers after a month or 3, someone after few years. If the virus didnt make any damage in the first 3 weeks then youre lucky and dont have to worry abiut your heart. My advice to you is to go and check titer for coxsackie virus because if you go to cardiologist he will only tell you that its anxiety cuz most of them have no expirience with the disease such as myocarditis because its actually rare disease to catch. Most important thing is that your heart isnt damaged, what youre feeling now are just side effect from the virus and you may feel that for years, especially when climate changes happen or on exertion etc..coxsackie is real bad luck my friend but i hope youre doing well now. All people around you telling youre crazy not knowing how are you feeling is a real mental battle with yourself. Most people get depressed when they catch coxsackie myocarditis, strong mind and positive thoughts during recovery proccess is very important. You also have mental damage from all that which is completely normal, youre anxious after all those symptoms that you have. Try to go out with your friends and never think about the disease and you will be cured completely!

[@serboman01]

And btw myocarditis in mild cases may not show up on echo or ecg which is why i adviced you to check coxsackie titer. Basically, you may have myocarditis and your heart can look completely normal on echo and ecg which is why doctors tell you its anxiety because they are not well educated.