Help To Manage Your Heart Failure Symptoms With Our Symptom Checker.

The first step in managing your condition is to know your symptoms and understanding your own symptoms flare patterns. it is important you monitor your symptoms.

Heart failure is progressive disease and any changes need to be monitored.

Changes to look out for include.

- You breathing, so whether you become breathless during test and activity and by how much

- Whether your ankles, feet and stomach swollen and if so how swollen.

- Your weight, have you rapidly gained weight ?

Of course every one has good days and bad days, but keeping a dairy of how you feel and the severity of symptoms may help you keep track of your heart failure. Another useful tool might be our symptom checker, which takes you through the main symptoms of heart failure and is designed to help you evaluate how much each one is not intended to be used to daignosis heart failure or to repalce medical advice.

Give the doctor as much information about how you are feeling as early as possible, this will help them manage your symptoms and improve equality of life.

This symptom checker is developed by Novartis with patient groups and expert doctors. it takes into consideration recommendations from medical societies. This symptom checker is designed for your personal use and Novartis will not collect any personal information in connection with its use. Novartis will not have any liability from any and all claims  , costs , losses , liablities , and damages of any sort, whether direct, indirect, special, consequentional or othewise arising out of or related to your use of symptoms checker The checker has been deigned to check symptoms of chronic heart failure only.

Recognizing signs of Breath.

- Shortness of breath when lying down.

- Tiredness.

- Swelling in the ankles, legs and abdomen,

- Sudden weight increase.

- Rapid heartbeat.

- Frequency of urination.