What is the ideal pulse/heartrate to assist in the possible shrinkage of an enlarged heart, please? I am 49 years old, under 9 stone, 5ft 6 and a half inches tall. I have had an overactive thryoid and partical thyroidectomy in 2006 and also anaemia. I had a chest infection with SOB in 2009 and a very bad chest infection this year May-June 2011. SOB worse, xray enlarged heart and possible dilated cardiomyopathy & left bundle block. Both ventricles affected and left atrial. No evident coronary disease. Drugs made symptoms worse.
Hello, The blood pressure in the ER and even now (diastolic of 101) are in the higher range. The symptoms you describe headache and all others can be explained because of blood pressure being on the higher side. So a 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring ambulatory if the reading are high there, starting ambulatory do antihypertensive medication should be the way forward.  Giving main med may be a temporary way of treating the symptoms particularly if the reason for the symptoms is higher blood pressure.  As soon as the blood pressure comes under control the symptoms should vanish. Regards