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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BaliRob" data-source="post: 565076" data-attributes="member: 36236">I went to the doctor because I was experiencing shortness of breath and had recently lost two stone in a very short period of time without even trying  (dieter's dream ha ha ha) but had no other symptoms. Reluctantly and as an afterthought she took a blood sample telling me the following day by telephone that I was a Diabetic.However, I now realize that she should have sent me for an echo cardiogram  because, yes, I was a diabetic but with congestive heart failure with enlarged heart left ventricle probably caused by the Diabetes (?) but not the cause of the breathlessness which has gone undiagnosed until a month ago meaning that I have had the problem for some 10 years.The lesson I am passing on is that breathlessness can mean heart failure - if your doctor will not order one - pay for it yourself - it is not terribly expensive.</blockquote>

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