Posted on 06/13/2024 11:22:21 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
Normal prescriptions. I guess that the only one that I would wonder about is the Comirnaty. I got the initial Covid vaccines and one booster. I have abstained since then for two reasons: 1) the lessening of the potency of later Covid variants, and 2) information that would seem to indicate that, although a Covid vaccine would help in lessening the chance of getting Covid in the short-term, it might affect your immune system so that you might be more likely to get it over the long-term. With Joe perhaps in his last days as President, perhaps it’s not inappropriate to get the Covid vaccine for temporary immunity. Deal with long-term effects after he gets out of office in a few months (hopefully).
I’m sotry that happened to you.
I guess you had to re learn how to walk and balance yourself. A new normal.
Almost everyone over 80 takes the blood thinner Eliquis to help prevent strokes...
I’m 90 and refused to take the Eliquis since when I did take it, ten years ago, for a couple of months, I’d get bruises and leaking veins from the slightest bump...
All cardiologists recommend Eliquis, ours (wife & I) included...
My wife (age 85.5) takes it...
It can be a $200 per month habit...
Our other mainstay is Metoprolol for blood pressure...
Wife’s blood pressure runs between 120 and 125
My blood pressure is always around 130-135 due, in part, to a few years of cyclic short-term doses of steroids...
and Adderall
But I guess that and the cocaine are only when he has to get up for a speech.
I would expect the Apixaban to be a problem for someone who has had two intercranial hemorrhages.
Where the hell is the rest of the list, half the damn country are on this list, where is the list of the cocktail they are giving him to function without falling down!!!
Both those mechanisms could be in effect simultaneously.
I feel the second (atrophy or destruction of myelin sheaths), if it occurs, might occur in some individuals and not others due to genetic factors affecting robustness of the sheath.
Blood thinner, Cholesterol, Heartburn, Nasal Alergy, Covid.................
“The most noteworthy health incident that Vice President Biden has experienced was his intracranial hemorrhage from a cerebral aneurysm in 1988. His aneurysm was repaired surgically,” wrote Dr. Kevin O’Connor, an associate professor of medicine and the director of executive medicine at George Washington University, who treated Biden at the time.
“During this workup, his team discovered a second aneurysm, which had not bled. This was also treated. He has never had any recurrences of any aneurysms.
Pretty much typical for an older person.
How do you know he is taking these drugs?
Ambien is a proven and safe sleeping aid.
Buspar was an anti-anxiety med. It has been replaced.
Lithium is a mood stabilizer like many for bi-polar disfunction. It has been taken off the market except for extreme cases.
None of the meds or their equivalents indicate a major psych problem. They are very common sleep aids and mood adjusters in the growing Boomer population.
My thinking is Biteme is being given Adderall and or other similar stimulants to function when he needs to. The above drugs are not stimulants, but do stabilize his moods and allow him to sleep.
yeah to make sure they stay dementiaed. 23% of your cholesterol is in your brain and when your statin crosses the brain blood barrier and starts eating away at your neuron sheathing, what can happen?
Good luck on your Whipple surgery! Hope all goes well. My late husband had one in 2003!
I can find no research demonstrating clinically significant myelin damage or neurological impairment in humans due to long-term statin use.
Also, (Claude AI):
“Humans have more complex compensatory mechanisms that may mitigate myelin disruption compared to rodent models.”
Walking with the prosthetic wasn’t as hard as I thought it might be...Being careful with balance was important though...
and something that is undefinable.
Yep, that’s the COUNTER-statins for dementia patients argument.
I just know I took statins for the better part of fifteen years until I couldn’t stand the increasingly severe muscle cramping/PAIN waking me up and hitting me at random times during the day.
Had several US imaging studies done (cardiac, carotid) and an EBCT and there was TRACE evidence of some carotid plaque.
I take Nexlizet now (bempedoic acid and ezetamibe) and my Tchol is under 180 for the first time in my adult life (it’s been 220-240 since college over 40 years ago).
with my family history I’ll take the risk (and no noticeable side effects) of the drug combo against the possibility of an MI. My Dad, both older brothers, both grandfathers and an uncle ALL had MI’s in their 40’s. They also smoked and ate like they were living in the great depression still (lots of saturated fat).
I guess my 21 years in the service, keeping fit - was runnng 4 miles in under 32 minutes until I blew out my knee 8 years ago - paid off. Same weight I was in 1977, too.
I admit I can’t ride a bicycle like Uncle/Pedo Joe Biden but…
I know what they are, but Carolyn Noble didn’t raise any dummies, so - no comment.
I’m a pharmacy tech. It’s blood thinner, one for cholesterol - Comirnaty is the Pfizer COVID shot - and one is a nasal spray for allergies.
You can bet it’s not the whole list.
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