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Skriven 2013-06-20 20:45:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:261/1381)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HANSCHKA
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-=> Quoting Ruth Hanschka to Nancy Backus on 06-19-13  23:41 <=-

 -> Ah.  By the time they let him go on Monday, he was quite willing to go
 -> home... a couple days after getting home, he decided that he'd had
 -> enough of the (increasing) side effects from the statin the hospitalist
 -> had put him on, stopped taking it, and felt much better the next
 -> morning.  His primary doc agreed that that was ok to have done.  :) 

 RH> Statins have two kinds of side effects - nasty and nastier.  They
 RH> tried  putting my mom on them at age 81, but she tried them and said
 RH> fuggedaboutit. 

The more feedback I get, the more I see that the only ones that seem to
think good things about them are a certain segment of the doctor
population... ;0  There must be some people for which statins are a good
thing, but I know of far more that have nothing but troubles from them. 

 -> Everything else seems to be being nicely settled out by the heart meds. 
 -> His pulse/heartbeat isn't as out of control as when we went in,
 -> hopefully the heart is getting stronger... I imagine we'll find out more
 -> about that when we see the cardiac doc on Monday...

 RH> Life is going to be interesting for a while.  

Yup... I imagine so...  :)

 -> So far we aren't really changing how/what we are eating... have been on
 -> a relatively low-salt diet for many years just on general principles...
 -> but we are looking a little more closely at the sodium content of
 -> things, and trying to pay attention to whether we see any ill effects
 -> that can be traced thereto...  :)

 RH> I try to do that myself.  My dad had to watch his sodium intake, so I
 RH> read  labels as a matter of course. In some cases they say going too
 RH> low is a bad  thing.  Go figure. 

Quite.  The body needs a certain amount of sodium in order to function
properly... Too little can also cause fluid retention, in order to hold
onto the little left in the body, which can be just as bad.  And it can
also cause low blood pressure and dizziness.  My dad was on a low-sodium
diet for many years, and it did start to backfire on him in his later
years...  Proper balance is key...
 
 ->  RH> A friend of mine had two heart attacks; they didn't find out about
 ->  RH> the first one until he had the second one.  
 ->  RH> It makes for interesting times, to be polite about it. 
 -> I've heard of that happening pretty frequently... when one doesn't have
 -> the classic symptoms, it's pretty hard to figure out sometimes until
 -> after the fact...  :)

 RH> Years later in this case.

I've heard of other instances like that... seems they all come out of
the woodwork when one is starting to have such onesself (or one's
spouse's self... [g])

ttyl          neb

... Either you like mushrooms or you're wrong.

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