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Laurel · 01-18-2009, 07:03 PM

I have been doing some research on congestive heart failure which is what they are looking for with our mugas or echos. The injection fraction, your muga number, indicates how well your heart is pumping blood. Some naturalpathy therapies you can take to assist your heart are as follows:

CoQ10 100-300mg daily
L-Carnitine-- 1 to 3 gms daily
Taurine-- 2-3 gms daily
Vitamin C-- 1000mg daily
Vitamin E--800 IU daily
Alpha-lipoic acid -- 150mg daily
Fish Oil (super EPA) -- 700-1400mg EPA and 500-100mg of DHA

I purchase my supplements from:

www.SwansonVitamins.com

I hope this is helpful to anyone struggling with declining mugas/echos. I had ACTH and worry about the Adriamycin's effect on my heart which may not present as a problem for 15-20 yrs from now. Of course, to be here 15-20 yrs from now is a good thing! Naturally, with 7 more months of Herceptin I am concerned I may not be able to keep up my ejection fraction, so I just upped my CoQ10 to 200my daily and added the Taurine and Vitamin C to the above list which I have been taking. So far, so good!

01-18-2009, 07:03 PM	#7
Laurel Senior Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Hershey, PA. Live The Sweet Life! Posts: 2,005	helpful supplements I have been doing some research on congestive heart failure which is what they are looking for with our mugas or echos. The injection fraction, your muga number, indicates how well your heart is pumping blood. Some naturalpathy therapies you can take to assist your heart are as follows: CoQ10 100-300mg daily L-Carnitine-- 1 to 3 gms daily Taurine-- 2-3 gms daily Vitamin C-- 1000mg daily Vitamin E--800 IU daily Alpha-lipoic acid -- 150mg daily Fish Oil (super EPA) -- 700-1400mg EPA and 500-100mg of DHA I purchase my supplements from: www.SwansonVitamins.com I hope this is helpful to anyone struggling with declining mugas/echos. I had ACTH and worry about the Adriamycin's effect on my heart which may not present as a problem for 15-20 yrs from now. Of course, to be here 15-20 yrs from now is a good thing! Naturally, with 7 more months of Herceptin I am concerned I may not be able to keep up my ejection fraction, so I just upped my CoQ10 to 200my daily and added the Taurine and Vitamin C to the above list which I have been taking. So far, so good! __________________ Smile On! Laurel Dx'd w/multifocal DCIS/IDS 3/08 7mm invasive component Partial mast. 5/08 Stage 1b, ER 80%, PR 90%, HER-2 6.9 on FISH 0/5 nodes 4 AC, 4 TH finished 9/08 Herceptin every 3 weeks. Finished 7/09 Tamoxifen 10/08. Switched to Femara 8/09 Bilat SPM w/reconstruction 10/08 Clinical Trial w/Clondronate 12/08 Stopped Clondronate--too hard on my gizzard! Switched back to Tamoxifen due to tendon pain from Femara 15 Years NED I think I just might hang around awhile....