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Medication For Congestive Heart Failure

does anybody know of people who have suffered congestive heart failure for many years? medications are becoming much better and I know of 2 people who were given 6 months to live over 30 years ago and still doing well now in their 70 s
Sun, 20 Dec 2009
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my mom had it for 20 yrs at least. she lived to be 89! chf is not an automatic death sentence. you just have to adjust to the illness. some ways to adjust are by not smoking, eating right foods, a LITTLE exersize EVERY DAY.
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Medication For Congestive Heart Failure

my mom had it for 20 yrs at least. she lived to be 89! chf is not an automatic death sentence. you just have to adjust to the illness. some ways to adjust are by not smoking, eating right foods, a LITTLE exersize EVERY DAY.