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I also had to change cardiologists in the same practice when she was going to have a heart catheterization and one of the meds they used to knock her out caused her legs to twitch uncontrollably. Her heart doc tried to tell me it was the steroid and I didn't believe that, because my mom had been on steroids before with no complications. It was the benedryl they had given her. Her heart doc wouldn't listen to me. A nurse quietly brought me a medication side effects printout later saying that benedryl can cause dyskenesthia (uncontrolled body movements) in geriatric patients. That's all I needed to know to ask for a different doc. We love the one she has now (from the same practice). I hate arrogant docs if they don't know what they're talking about.
So if you have doubts that your mom's doc isn't the best, ask around (ask nurses at the hospital on the heart floor for recos. I did that to find my mom and dad the best primary care doc when they moved up here to live near me).
Also he occasionally has less serious low blood pressure/weakness for 5 or 10 minutes for no known reason.
What has happened with her is any kind of exertion she's short of breath. If she walks from one side of the room to the other, she's panting. But her cardiologist said it was important to continue to do as much as she could do and to walk as much as she could. She just needs to rest more frequently. At almost 94, she's able to take care of most of her activities of daily living in Independent Living. If we go out, I have a companion or transport chair that I put her in, which makes it easy for her to get around. She's not on oxygen, which I think happens with some people with CHF. So it's not necessarily all doom and gloom if you get a good cardiologist, depending on the age and condition of your mom.