Lori describes the importance of monitoring symptoms.

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Women living with heart failure, they tend to have different signs and symptoms than men. They’re not always the same; because I lived with it all my life I pretty well knew my signs and symptoms from when I was young but I talk to women with heart failure and they say – they say you know they’ll be feeling short of breath or whatever and they just think that they ate too much or that they need to diet or that they have to do more exercise or that because they’re out of shape. Meanwhile, they’re actually in heart failure and they don’t even know it, so I would say if you have any unusual signs and symptoms for you I would get checked out, especially – first if you don’t know you have heart failure, and then especially if you have heart failure go for your three to six month checkups and keep an eye on what signs and symptoms each time you have an episode, because if the heart failure becomes chronic like you will get acute episodes so what are the signs and symptoms that come acutely for you.

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