Heart Flutters

Open Question: Can coughing make a heart murmur worse?

December 10th, 2008 | by admin | Open Question: Can coughing make a heart murmur worse?
My 3 year old son was diagnosed as an infant with heart murmur and has been on asthma medication since 6 weeks old. He has many coughing spells & I’m concerned. The NP recently heard it at his 36 month wellness visit.

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:31:52 GMT
Open Question: I am seriously depressed, need help.?
So basically, I’ve been rather depressed since i was about 14. My father has a severe case of it. I am in college now, first year, and i feel as lonely as ever. I don’t really have any real friends, maybe one or two, though I know that if I could just get out there, and get talkative, I could probably find some….I have a gf here and i suppose she understands how I feel, but I still refuse to tell her, or any other gf I’ve had about my problems, beyond a certain extent. I never had too many friends in high school, always the “loner” I suppose. I feel like I have potential but I just can’t seem to commit myself to my education, or social life much. I’ve been told that I am reasonably attractive, and frequently have girls ask if I am in a relationship with my current gf. Obviously some people are interested in me, though I continue in my downward spiral of worthlessness and hopelessness.
I find myself believing that I should be friends with everyone on my dorm floor, and should have found my “group” by now, as most others seem too have. Instead, I frequently eat meals by myself and feel stupid, while others are laughing and enjoying themselves. I don’t even feel like eating anymore, because I don’t want to fucking eat by myself. My god, I hate everyone.
I know that anti-depressants may be the answer, and for a while, about a year or so, I took some for another problem. However, they didn’t help me make friends, only I felt only slightly better. Perhaps, I am just hopeless, and will die alone, without ever accomplishing anything.
I compare my facebook to others’ and see that I am a loser. Only one or two posts here and there. Sometimes, I am just apathetic about the whole fucked up situation, and tell myself nothing matters anyways.
I know it sounds that I pity myself, and maybe I do. However, if you had gone through this shit like I have for years, if you had been abused by your father since you were too young to remember, with him telling you that you are worthless quite often, if you had contracted a rare disease with the probability of 1 to 1,000,000 of getting (so I’ve been told), perhaps you too would feel that everything is just plain fucked. Well I have spilled much of my heart to random people, maybe one of you will have an answer.

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:39:41 GMT

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