Susan1's knee pain masked her heart failure symptoms.

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So fast-forward to September 23rd last year, I’m going down for a stress echo. Normally I would get on a treadmill but my knees are starting to bother me. And so they were going to do a dopamine stress echo instead. And then they had me come down the week later. And when I finally saw them, you know they talked about the echo and do you feel any fluttering? Only once in a while but nothing significant. And they said “well you know, we think there’s – you’re in atrial fib.” And I went oh you know crap right? And I said “you know what? They’re talking to me about you know all this stuff.” And I said “could someone look at my leg? I’ve had this problem since June. He says “you’re in congestive heart failure.” – ‘my knees were bugging me’. Well that’s what I thought. I mean my knees were bugging me, but what I wasn’t paying attention to was the fact that I was so short of breath. But because my knees hurt that’s what I was focusing on.

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