Managing Heart Failure Symptoms

It wasn’t until I was in heart failure that doctors finally started to believe me. Thanks to Dr. Phillips, my life was saved when he discovered that in addition to Lyme, I had another serious infection called Bartonella (aka cat scratch disease) that was overlooked by a dozen NYC docs. I needed urgent treatment for it. Remarkably, my heart failure was gone within two months of starting antibiotics, and all my neuropsychiatric symptoms disappeared shortly after. Every symptom vanished, and I’m in

One of our favorite rescues. He lived outside and was dying from heart failure with an abdomen full of fluid and end stage heartworm. It has been a long hard road for Shorty. The vets said he wouldn’t survive but we weren’t going to give up that easy. All nighters at the vet, a million medications, constantly wearing diapers, refusing to eat and painful treatments was all worth it for this guy to live out the rest of his life the most spoiled dog ever. | MPEP Outreach Programs

FDA recalls blood pressure, heart failure medications after cancer-causing agents found