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Hi fellow sufferers. What did we do to deserve this?
I was diagnosed in February but not prescribed anything, just manage it with diet, but not saying what that diet was, or where I got the information from. I was also made an appointment to see a cardiologist, as a routine comment about me going dizzy and subsequent ECG showed I had an abnormal heartbeat. Upshot = I go in hospital on Monday for an Angiogram and stents to be inserted if necessary. I've been prescribed Atorvastatin; a blood thinning tablet, a beta blocker and asprin, and was already on lisinopril for blood pressure and lansoprazole for reflux. I was put on Simvastatin 3 years ago, but just stopped taking it due to the bad press, so yes, my cholesterol reading went up to 8.2, but cholesterol wasn't a word I'd heard of 30 years ago and I wanted to say "so what". Why do you keep prescribing me more tablets to take when I obviously have other problems that you aren't addressing, like, why I'm overweight when I eat very little, and why does gluten affect me so badly when I've been tested and told I'm not a coeliac. Growing up I ate a **** diet, very little, as I always wanted to go to the youth club asap. I was "the most outstanding all round sportswoman the school had ever known", and yet here I am, 58 years old, on 6 tablets a day and having to go into hospital. I can't believe it.
I loved those words from Highlander, "Better to Burn Out than Fade Away". Well, that's what I always thought I'd do. How have I ended up this Dr Pharma's delight? What did I do?
I was diagnosed in February but not prescribed anything, just manage it with diet, but not saying what that diet was, or where I got the information from. I was also made an appointment to see a cardiologist, as a routine comment about me going dizzy and subsequent ECG showed I had an abnormal heartbeat. Upshot = I go in hospital on Monday for an Angiogram and stents to be inserted if necessary. I've been prescribed Atorvastatin; a blood thinning tablet, a beta blocker and asprin, and was already on lisinopril for blood pressure and lansoprazole for reflux. I was put on Simvastatin 3 years ago, but just stopped taking it due to the bad press, so yes, my cholesterol reading went up to 8.2, but cholesterol wasn't a word I'd heard of 30 years ago and I wanted to say "so what". Why do you keep prescribing me more tablets to take when I obviously have other problems that you aren't addressing, like, why I'm overweight when I eat very little, and why does gluten affect me so badly when I've been tested and told I'm not a coeliac. Growing up I ate a **** diet, very little, as I always wanted to go to the youth club asap. I was "the most outstanding all round sportswoman the school had ever known", and yet here I am, 58 years old, on 6 tablets a day and having to go into hospital. I can't believe it.
I loved those words from Highlander, "Better to Burn Out than Fade Away". Well, that's what I always thought I'd do. How have I ended up this Dr Pharma's delight? What did I do?