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I am 22 with an undiagnosed heart condition. Drs cant seem to figure out whats wrong. I was born 25-27 weeks gestation, most physicians dont think that has anything to do with my body today. Thats foolish.
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I was born addicted to Crack, Heroin, and PCP. I was given 24 hours to live. I was 1lb 8 oz. My mother left me in the hospital for her next fix I stayed in the hospital for about 5 weeks In the NICU. I know nothing about my stay or my diagnosis as a newborn. I believe our neonatal history shapes the human adults we grow into.
I was adopted in family by an aunt and uncle. I was a sick child alot or drs appointments and antibiotics. The lack of knowledge of my birth and first year of my life healthwise set me up for a dangerous situation. I am advocating for children who dont know their history.
Doctors diagnosed me with asthma at a very young age. My first breathing treatment was at 4 or 5. corticosteroids treat these breathing disorders they are also not healthy for the heart in studies. Drugs are almost never tested on children, why are we administering them to children?
In passing my mother was told I had a late 1 through 6 systolic murmur. It was never looked into instead the drugs were administered for the asthma. I was sick every other month and constantly on heavy antibiotics and medications. among some of them...flovent, albueterol sulfate, amoxicillin( wich I became immune to) augmentin, cipro ect...
At 21 years old I started having chest pain and shortness of breath my heart rate sky rockets for no reason as high as 160, in my sleep it falls to 40...these are not normal heart functions. I was diagnosed in passing with tachi brady syndrome only 60 year old get that from wear and tear on the heart.
the medications exacerbated the heart condition I had and no one knew. No one was aware, no one was paying attention. As a child I feared dieing from my heart racing from the medicine no one ever listened. Doctors know best.
Do research on the things that go into your body and theirs food, medications, ect
do not blindly accept what your told it could save your life and theirs.
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i am sorry that you are having issues with your heart.
as an asthmatic from childhood, i grew up in a time when there was no albuterol or flovent. the best they had then was a drug called Marax, a mix of theophylline and valium! did it work? not really, but you got pretty sleepy while you couldn't breathe. later theophylline was what they gave. then they added albuterol. when the inhaled steroids came out, life got good.
a 1 over 6 really isn't bad in the greater scheme of things. my son's murmur was that. it meant antibiotics before dental treatment, but that's it. his was due to a bicuspid aortic valve that was diagnosed at 9 months. it was a poor decision on the part of your doctors to not diagnos what caused your murmur.
as far as ashtma meds, i can tell you that it's a calculated risk--do we administer the medication to allow a child to breathe, or do we risk a fatal attack because somewhere down the road s/he might develop heart issues?
i vote medicine--as an asthmatic and a parent. we cannot ethically test drugs on kids--they lack the ability to give informed consent.
i do pray that you are able to find the source of your tachycardia. not having our kids' family medical history is a reality for many of us, so we all live under the what-if umbrella.
thank you for sharing your story.
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