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"Symptoms of heart failure, depending upon the severity, could include shortness of breath, over sweating, high blood pressure, chest pain, cough, swelling in limbs especially the ankles, fatigue, disorientation, confusion, palpitation, racing heart.

If the heart is beating fast, and weakly, the blood pressure could also be low, since the heart isn't doing a very good job at that time."

Hello there, after personally being diagnosed with an enlarged heart in December 2004, i can tell you what i know about.

The symptoms i experienced with this problem included shortness of breath, cough, swelling in limbs especially the ankles, SEVERE fatigue, pale skin, excessive thirst, and just feeling like crap most of the time.

Mine started when i finally got tired of coughing up a lung along with the chest pain of coughing. I thought i actually had asthma and needed treatment for that. But after a breathalizer test(which i could not get to register) and xrays. I was admitted with Congestive Heart failure/Enlarged heart. I had a cardiac cath procedure the next morning that showed 0% plaque buildup in my arteries, but it also showed that my heart was only strong enough to pump out 20% of the blood that my heart pumped in. This caused my heart to work EXTRA hard just to keep me alive.

Now after 6 months of heart meds, the cardioligists were concern that the heart did not repair itself in that time, and that they were afraid of a total heart stoppage. So on may 18th/19th i had a BiVentricular pacemaker put in, it is a combo pacemaker/defibulator that controls and monitors my heart 100% of the day. If my rythms go out of whack (ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ) it shocks my heart with enternal electric paddles back into rythm.

My condition is called "IdioPathic CardioMyopathy", basically meaning unknown cause.

Now on top of this i now have type 1 diabetes, so WOO HOO

good luck, thats all i have for ya