She originally dismissed the signs as part of getting older.
After being diagnosed with heart failure, Holly Weiss made many changes to her life and now has normal heart function.After a ‘disastrous’ travel day of canceled trips, Holly Weiss felt exhausted walking off the plane and sat down to rest. She thought the stress of work and travel had exhausted her. But when she woke from a nap later, she felt her heart pounding and struggled to breathe. She put her smartwatch on and noticed that her resting heart rate was at 140 beats per minute.
When Dr. Anu Lala encouraged Holly Weiss to make changes to her lifestyle, Weiss embraced the challenge and started exercising more, reducing stress and eating healthy.“I was retaining fluids. So my shoes started to not fit anymore, rings on my finger I managed to get off and didn’t put back on, my belly was swollen,” she said. “I had shortness of breath occasionally like certainly with any kind of exertion but also sometimes even when just standing up to speak.
Sometimes she felt really overheated and like her heart was pounding in her chest. But again, she dismissed the signs as part of getting older. “By all accounts I was in a really bad state,” she said. “I was seen by a bunch of people who told me that your life is going to have to change.”
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