Originally posted by DavidE
It is up to the patient to convince his doctor (kiss their burro if necessary) to issue an Rx undergo a full heart inspection protocol. Chemical
stress test, nuclear medicine confirmation that no part of the heart muscle has been deprived of oxygen. A sonogram inspection of the heart. Proof.
Not assumption, guesswork, or No Bad Days ridiculous self deception. These tests WORK and anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool.
Afib is a MISFIRE, a misconduction of a nerve impulse signal. It is not CAUSED by a lifestyle. Sorry Charlita, an overwhelmingly high percentage of my
relatives and forefathers suffered from Afib and not one, and we're talking maybe eighty or so people demised due to a cardiac event. ZERO. My
cholesterol LDL is a little high in RELATIONSHIP to the HDL but the taking of a liver abusing drug to try and satisfy a nerd lab technician report
ain't in the cards.
DRUGS ARE DANGEROUS to liver and kidneys. What does it take to convince a Mother Fletcher's Do It Yourself Chemistry Set Rx'ing doctor, otherwise? I
would love to print up a hundred fluorescent stickers written in reverse that I can plaster on one of these "licensed" chemical Rx writing psychopaths
that reads
RENAL & HEPATIC BENEFIT RISK RATIO
THINK BEFORE YOU WRITE
The idiocy I see in conventional medicine is discouraging. Got Afib? They won't include electrolytes in the labs request. But they'll probably insist
on one hell of a dangerous drug AMIODARONE*. An MD who does not bother to ask a patient about their frequency and duration of afib events and off the
cuff Rx's Coumadin, is a quack. You can bet your exhaust pipe this DM did not bother studying or even ordering a blood coagulation lab sample.
*Which is a freakin' genuine miracle drug to treat afib.
I had an IDIOT of a cardiologist Rx a maintenance 200mg BID Amiodarone protocol for me. I took the slip of paper and consulted with a (IMHO) talented
Internal Medicine MD. "He's an idiot!" I shouted. "I agree he replied". He looked at me and remarked "Why do I always get the impression I am dealing
with a fellow medical doctor when we meet?" I saw another cardiologist. That's when I discovered an electrolytes imbalance and shortage was causing
99.99% of my afib events, even though appropriate medications like Metopralol ER and Verapamil ER were being used. This is the same MD who suggested
standard release same medications were causing a "ringing" effect in BP and pulse.
I know enough medicine to know when a lunatic is trying to push the equivalent of "Your Muffler Bearing Need Changing" on me.
What were the other two Norman Bates Grade Events that convinced me to be paranoid: Oh yeah, the inappropriate Rx of Isosorbide Mononitrate for
treating anemia which was somehow overlooked in those 500 hundred dollar lab tests. All twenty three of them. Or the MD who called me and said "You
have kidney failure". Three weeks of agonized waiting and a hundred mile trip to a necrologist who took one look at me me and said (no kidding) "WTF.
If you have kidney failure I'm a man from mars!" Ya wanna know what the "Doc" said when I confronted her a few days later "Oops. When I was reviewing
your labs my finger must have slipped down a line". Yeah, I did it. I went to a Stationery Store and bought a flat plate of white plastic. I returned
to the clinic barged into her office and slapped the plate down on her desk blotter. "This is what you use when when tracing across lab reports!" I
thundered. "Your finger is what you use when tracing down the page of a TV guide to find your favorite soap opera!" I stomped out of the facility to
muted applause. |