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large stomach, heart failure

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Smurfette:
Hello eesha!!!!

To try and answer your questions...Some thals do have larger stomachs than others, might be because of a large spleen or a inflamed liver as sajid said...but we here in australia have patients who have not got a large stomach at all...

Heart failure is often cause by non compliance of wearing the pump or chelation...The body can only take so much and if we mistreat it, it will begin to fight back and you will have problems like heart failure and liver failure and other problems...But some thals just have heart failure due to another cause not caused by thal...Could be another problem altogether..

I dont agree with the doctor telling you that its something to do with your eating...cause i do have a slight stomach and its not got to do with my eating habits..its because of my liver...

Zaini has a good point in mentioning supplementation of calcium and magnesium it helps with the bone growth as well...Also Vit D is helpful too...

Hope this helps..

eesha:
I do have a bit of a large liver but my spleen is ok, i dnt understand tho i have always been an excellent chelator. i am supposed to take calcium and vit d for my bones but i find the chewable stuff so hard to take.so does magnesium help reduce size of ur stomach???

Smurfette:
No magnesium doesnt reduce the size of your stomach...It helps in  the absorption of the calcium if your body does not absorb it well...

what other calcium supplements are available where your from? Do they come in tablet form? or there are some water soluable ones too...That fizz in water and you drink it like a drink...

Your enlarged liver could be from various reasons...I am no doctor...but you should enquire about that with your doctor who ever you see...

Hope this helps.

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