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To: RosieCotton; Rose in RoseBear

Woohooo!

I’m so thrilled...just has really given me something to look forward to! Which is a good thing.

My bp went back up. You know they took me off one med and decreased my patch strength? Well, my pressure shot up to 160/110. I put back on my stronger patch and now it’s back down to around 140/90.

I’ll call the nephrologist tomorrow and will be going to see my new primary care doctor on Tuesday.

And I’m in series need of glasses. The hit my right eye took in February is making it so I can’t really drive safely. I go see the ophthamologist on the 12th.

~sigh~

Well, I look forward to filling out my medical forms with my new pen when it gets here!

PS: Nice new thread!


86 posted on 05/04/2008 8:36:18 PM PDT by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: 2Jedismom
Well, I developed heart palpitations on Friday, dagnabit! I waited all day to see if they'd subside, but they didn't. The Doc had told me that if this happened, I should take some Warfarin after 24 hours. I didn't think I had any Warfarin left from before, so on Saturday, I took an Aspirin. I hadn't taken any Aspirin for the previous 7 days, because I was planning to have a colonoscopy done tomorrow. Anyway, I called to get the Warfarin refilled, and SirKit went to pick it up Sun. afternoon. I took one about 3, and before I went to bed last night, I was back into normal rhythm!

I'm fixing to call the Cardologist, but I'm waiting to hear back from the Doc about re-scheduling the colonoscopy. What's strange is that the Doc doing mine requires 10 days without aspirin before the procedure, but SirKit's Doc didn't have any such restriction! What's even more strange is that though they restrict aspirin for 10 days, they say to stop Coumadin only three days before the procedure. That doesn't make any sense to me, because I thought Coumadin was a much stronger blood thinner than regular aspirin. I don't know if not having the aspirin for that length of time had anything to do with the irregular heart rate, but I'm going to ask if I can do just 5 days without aspirin next time, just in case.

105 posted on 05/05/2008 6:48:45 AM PDT by SuziQ
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