Posted on 01/03/2008 6:35:58 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
If your doctor ordered the increased dosage and his/her office didn’t call it in, you need to let them know.
I don’t wanna. I don’t want to take this pill in the whole first place. I can’t get them to call it in so I’m just going to see if I can do without it.
I’ve had to deal with that same situation of the doctor’s office not calling stuff in and it just drives you nuts!! Here’s hoping that the two prescriptions you’re taking continue to keep your blood pressure down. LSA
And I’m getting a new doctor.
This one has finally pissed me off. Ordering that drug screen on me was insulting. She’s sitting there trying to get me to take dope (to calm me down, because she thinks that’s what is causing my high BP even though I keep telling her it’s highest when I’m half asleep on the floor watching Antiques Roadshow) and I keep refusing the dope because I know it’s not my “nerves” causing this high BP and I don’t want to get put on dope! So she does a DRUG SCREEN on me?? Everything about me proves that I don’t do dope! People on dope NEVER turn the stuff down!
(And yes, I’m rather worked up right now, but don’t worry...my BP goes down when I’m worked up. It goes up when I’m relaxed.)
GAH!!!
BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG
snik, shhk, ching
BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG
*ponders how to really tick 2J off...just in case we need to at some point*
Getting a new doc sounds like a good move at this point. Though...in her defense, it may be that they're required to do a drug panel fairly routinely for new patients or before starting certain drug regimens, just to avoid interactions. Granted, they should be able to trust what the patient says they are or aren't taking, but...
Heh heh!
You know, that’s why I went back to work! I found that when I’m up running around, the BP goes down. When it would start to climb (back when it got real high) I’d take a quick jaunt around the block and it would go down!
I explained that to the physician at my Employee Health office and he said “Odd.” but let me go back to work even though when he checked my BP it was 194/104.
He believed me. You know how important that is to me. You know how I am very sensative about being believed.
I don’t have faith in my doctor anymore...
You know, I have Lisinopril...the doctor in the hospital started me on it. I only took it for a couple of days and my doctor took me off of it and put me on the Diovan.
The Lisinopril doesn’t cost me a cent...zero co-pay. The Diovan costs me $20! Now I don’t care about that if one would work better than the other, but she didn’t give the lisinopril a chance to start working!
We got a couple of inches of snow overnight.
In the information I received about the lisinopril, it said it might take two to three weeks before it showed any effect. I mentioned before that I had a time there where I was coughing, A LOT, and the information about the meds said that was a side effect. I mentioned it to the pharmacist at Wal-Mart, where we get the stuff for $4 for a 30 day supply, and he said that it was typical to go through a two or three week period with a bad cough, then it calms down. He was right. Where I used to get severe coughing fits 10 or 12 times a day, I'm down to three or four!
I'm hoping that the EchoCardiogram at the end of March will show my heart function back up to normal so I can start reducing the meds over a month or two then quit them altogether.
I don’t know why she took me off it after just a couple of days.
I took one Diovan for a while every morning and it didn’t do ANYTHING, then she doubled it and put me on the patch at the same exact time. Sure, my BP went down...but I have suspected all along that it was the patch that did it.
I don’t think it’s a good idea to just take medications willy nilly and that is how I felt like she handled it. You don’t take medications if you don’t need them...they’re hard on the system!
If my pressure stays down for the next couple of days, then I’ll feel pretty confident that it was indeed the patch.
Click on the house picture for more pictures.
Has anyone figured out if there’s a way to browse the forums with a comments view anymore? That’s how I always had things set, and now it just shows articles when I go to individual forums. I don’t like. :-(
I'd NEVER had high BP before the Christmas adventure, even at my heaviest weight and 9 months pregnant! I suspect the reduced heart function brought it on, so it's my hope that when the heart function returns, the BP will be back to normal. SirKit has a really good BP cuff, so we can monitor it, after I go off the meds, to be sure it's back to what it was in years past.
We were able to get all my meds at Wal-Mart, and each one of them had a year’s supply approved. It just reduces by one month, each time I get a refill.
Room for gardening, indeed! The picture of the exterior of the house is kinda funky, but the interior looks terrific!
In the sidebar, there’s an option for “comments”...You just have to go there evertime.
Sigh...
Jr. and his girlfriend were on the way to DC for the day. His car overheated about halfway there. Tow truck/AAA is on the way and they’ll be heading back this way.
Guy that’s helping them out says the engine block is cracked.
Yah, but that’s for *everything*. I want to be able to, say, just look at comments from Chat or Religion or News. :-\
Use to be, you could. Now when I click on forums, it’s not by comments.
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