###CJ>I've had congestive heart failure for 6 years now.  I'm taking a
###CJ>diuretic and an ACE inhibitor.  Does that mean I'm just plain lucky!?
###CJ>
###Maybe you weren't as sick as that group.  How is the quality of
###your life now?  Most of the survivors in the ubiquinone (Co-Q-10)
###group got much better.
That's a distinct possibility.  I don't consider myself to be very bad
off as I am by and large asymptomatic.  I'd say about once a month I get
pulmonary edema bad enough that I have to take supplemental diuretics
and use positioning.  I'm naturally a little short of breath as I
converted about 30% of my heart to dog meat after my heart attack.
###
###Perhaps a year ago, I read that supplemental ubiquinone, also
###known as coenzyme Q-10, reduced the toxicity of heavy doses of
###Mevacor that were used in some cancer treatments.  The toxic
###symptoms they were talking about, muscle and tendon pain, were
###the reasons I stopped using Mevacor to control my sky-high
###cholesterol.  Without the Mevacor, I was having a little of the
###pain that was severe with the Mevacor.  I thought it sounded
###like I might be deficient in ubiquinone.
I was on Mevacor for awhile too.  While it helped some we become
concerned about some of the toxic side effects as well - particularly
with the amount of meds I was taking already!
###What causes your congestive heart failure?  Don't you hope
###it is ubiquinone deficiency, which is curable?
Part of that 30% I turned into dog meat was part of a muscle that
controls the mitral valve.  I have mitral valve regurgitation which was
originally diagnosed at stage II or III when I first had it.
Oddly enough when I first became symptomatic (about a week after being
released from the hospital from my heart attack and after recieving
balloon angioplasty I knew exactly what it was from my reading right
after my heart attack.
I think I might give this Coenzyme Q 10 a try.  As you said, it seems
inocccuous enough to at least give it a shot!
Thanks!
==== Chris ====
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