Prayers.....

[gja1000]

I'm sorry to say that it might be a few months before she feels better. Right now her heart muscle is stretched out and her heart is very big and not pumping as much blood as it should. That's why she feels so tired and wrung out right now. Medications can help the heart to shrink back toward a more normal size, although it will never be back the way it was. The smaller it is (or more normal size) the better the heart pumps and the better you feel. It takes a few months for the heart to shrink back. Unfortunately, some hearts do not shrink back to a more normal size - and those are people who need transplants. But you have to take the medicine first to see what will happen. Also, the medicine lowers the blood pressure to reduce the work of the heart. When the pressure is lower, the heart doesn't have to work as hard to pump blood throughout the body. This is a good thing and will help the heart shrink back to a more normal size (although it will never be normal size again). But lower blood pressure makes you feel very tired - and so does the heart problem, so it is a double whammy. But a necessary whammy to eventually feel better. Also, tell her to eat when she takes her heart meds - unless she has been instructed to not eat with them. Eating helps to blunt the effect of the lower blood pressure which happens a couple of hours after you take them. And eating is not just a few bites, but should be taken with a meal, if possible.

It will not be easy, but in time, she will probably feel lots better than she does right now.