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CHF: What It Is - 3

What It Is

1 - Healthy Heart / CHF Weak Heart 2 - Why A Weak Heart Makes You Feel Tired 3 - CHF & Too Much Water in Your Body 4 - Pneumonia!5 - Heart Failure & High Blood Pressure 6 - How HBP Causes Heart Failure 7 - The Long Haul, & What To Do About It

What To Do About It

1 - Stay As Healthy As You Can 2 - Medication Adherence 3 - Water Pills (AKA Diuretics)4 - Pressure Pills 5 - Antibiotics 6 - Take Care of Those Swollen Legs 7 - Keep Leg Swelling Under Control 8 - Warning Signs

3 - CHF & Too Much Water in Your Body

2 - Why a Weak Heart Makes You Feel Tired

MIKE'S MOVIES:
Your Kidneys are Blood Inspectors

MIKE'S MOVIES:
How the Lungs Work

On top of that, people with CHF have a bunch of water that collects in their bodies.

*Swollen with water

MIKE'S MOVIES:
Your Kidneys are Blood Inspectors

The most obvious place: LEGS & FEET

The Most Dangerous Place: THE LUNGS

That water in your lungs isn’t enough to drown you. But it is enough to make you short of breath and very uncomfortable.

MIKE'S MOVIES:
How the Lungs Work

chf makes you short of breath with…

…depending on how bad your CHF is.

2 - Why a Weak Heart Makes You Feel Tired