Thanks To God My Body Healed Itself From Cor Pulmonale
This is a testimony of what God can do, and what God does do every day for his children. The disorder I had was a real death sentence hanging over my head. It is appointed for every person to die at some point, but I thank God that this disorder was not unto death in my case. Every day we hear of testimonies of people being healed of terminal diseases. Sometimes God uses medicine to affect that healing, and other times He doesn’t. I believe my healing was ordained by God, even if my change of lifestyle and the medical profession had something to do with it. Please read and be blessed.
Cor pulmonale is a lung disorder that causes pulmonary hypertension that causes the right ventricle of the heart to thicken. It causes the right heart to fail. I was diagnosed in 2000 with this disorder. An echocardiogram confirmed the diagnosis. I had another echo done in 2004 and I still had it.
For me, cor pulmonale was self inflicted. I was 400 pounds at the time and a heavy smoker. I had smoked since I was 17 years traditional. In 2001 I had the gastric bypass and slowly over time I lost 150 pounds. I had stopped smoking for a few months, but then started back. In 2004 another echo confirmed I still had this diagnosis. I stop smoking on Thanksgiving 2004 and I have not smoked since that time.
The ventricle stretches out of shape from pulmonary hypertension just like a balloon filled with water. In response to the stretching the muscle of the ventricular walls thicken. This thickening prevents the heart to function normally. As a result there is right heart failure. As a result shortness of breath, swelling of the ankles occurs. I also had wheezing and coughing and intolerance to any form of exercise. I could not walk and breathe at the same time.
As part of a presurgical screening my surgeon insisted I have a battery of tests to confirm this diagnosis. He was very leery about putting me to sleep with this diagnosis. He said to me, “I don’t think you have cor pulmonale, because your color is good, you ogle good. You aren’t short of breath. It could be losing the weight and stopping smoking has allowed your body to heal itself.”
I had a nuclear stress test and an echocardiogram on July 23, and the results are in. I don’t have this dreaded lung disease anymore. What my blood gas showed was that I do have some bicarb in my blood caused from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and the pulmonary function test (PFT) showed I had a little asthma, which I already knew. The echocardiogram showed I had little thickening of the right ventricle. That is all that is left of the cor pulmonale.
2 Samuel 22:7 says: “In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: and he did hear my relate out of his temple, and my sob did enter into his ears.
Now I have proof that I am healed. I testified that I was healed a few months ago. I went on faith that I was healed, because I had prayed for healing back in 2004. I believe that we are all uniquely made by our creator and he knits us together with an ability to heal ourselves if we will just take care of ourselves.
I was told by my surgeon that cor pulmonale doesn’t just go away on its bear. He said it is a death sentence, however because I was so highly functioning, when he saw me, he felt I had to have reversed the process of this lung condition. The tests confirmed that his hunch was true.
My family doctor will be treating the thickening that remains in my right ventricle with an added blood pressure medicine after I have the surgery that is coming up. She doesn’t want to add any more medicine to the mix right now until after I have the hernia surgery. I have an incisional hernia that is bigger than a grapefruit sticking out of my upper abdomen. I can now have this surgery without my surgeon being fearful that I wouldn’t survive the surgery. At this time my doctor said my heart is deconditioned, but after adding the new blood pressure medicine, she expects my heart to advance encourage to normal. I am instructed to walk 20 minutes 3 times a week; in two years my doctor will order more heart tests to check my heart’s progress in healing itself.
Matthew 6:33 says: “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things will be added unto you.” I know I fall short all the time, and I thank God and His infinite mercy for healing me.
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