Joey Diaz Details Hospitalization Due to Congestive Heart Failure and Fluid Retention

Health Scare and Hospitalization

• ⚠️ Joey Diaz recounts a severe health scare in late February/early March where his blood pressure was 212 over 100 and oxygen level was 86.
• 🏥 He initially delayed going to the hospital, driving himself at 8 AM to avoid an ambulance arriving at 4 AM in front of his daughter.
• 💔 Doctors diagnosed him with congenital heart failure and significant fluid retention (edema), leading to fluid in his lungs and difficulty breathing.

Symptoms and Daily Struggles

• 💧 Diaz experienced extreme fluid retention, gaining 14 pounds in a month, reaching 319 pounds upon entering the hospital.
• 🚶 He struggled with basic mobility, needing to stop every few minutes to breathe, and experiencing intense anxiety and panic attacks when needing to urinate.
• 🚽 The urgency to urinate became so severe that he would have to urinate in containers in his car or even roadside due to an inability to reach a bathroom.

Medical Treatment and Recovery

• ⚡ Within three days of hospitalization, he lost 20 pounds of fluid through medical intervention, urinating frequently.
• 💉 Doctors drew multiple tubes of blood over several hours to address fluid overload and abnormal blood cell counts.
• 🔬 He was found to be 65% overloaded on fluid and had significantly high blood cell counts, requiring extensive draining.

Identifying the Cause

• 💊 Diaz believes his use of MK677, a substance that mimics growth hormone and can cause insulin dumps and raise blood sugar, may have contributed to his condition.
• 🩸 He recalls a similar incident at age 50 in DC, where he experienced a rush of red blood cells and a severe migraine, requiring blood to be drawn.
• ⚠️ This history suggests a potential issue with substances that affect growth hormones or red blood cell production, leading him to avoid such compounds.