Hi
Thank you for coming to my Blog, my wish is that we can all benefit from our personal experiences and I really value your input.
About a year ago, during a routine medical examination, I discovered one of the coronary arteries was totally blocked. Although I had experienced some symptoms I had put these down to other factors so it was a shock to learn of my condition. The cardiologist carried out an angiogram and verified the blockage and soon afterwards I underwent an Angioplasty procedure and had two stents fitted into the problematic artery. As surgical procedures go, this was fairly mild although it didn’t feel like that at the time. I was given various medications to take including Plavix, Cardiprin, Lipitor and Herbesser, the latter two to treat slightly elevated cholesterol and blood pressure levels.
The first side effect was a loss of taste, particularly for anything sweet. I do not even like sweet foods and drinks and considering the elevated cholesterol level, the last thing I needed was to be taking high amounts of sugar and not even knowing it. So the Herbesser was changed to Coaprovel and the taste gradually returned. The other noticeable side effect was the loss of sex drive.
Soon after this I read a book by Dr Dean Ornish advocating a diet and exercise system proven to reverse heart disease without drugs or surgery. At my next check-up I took the book along with me with a list of recommendations I had copied and discussed with the cardiologist these possible alternatives. Although he agreed that “all medicines are poisons”, he was adamant that I should continue with the prescribed medications as they were far more beneficial than the ‘alternatives’ advocated in the book. I decided to continue with the medication and the known side effects plus others that may just afflict me after long periods of continuous use. Lipitor, for example, can cause liver complications.
I would like to hear of your own experiences, particularly from those of you who have decided to take the alternative medicine route for treating any illnesses, mild or chronic. It is not intended that the Blog be an advertising forum for people to sell their products but a genuine platform to share our experiences, good or bad.
Look forward to your posts
David
3 comments:
This is a very good idea. I look forward to reading other people's experiences
Hi David,
I would like to share my experiance with you. Early 1997 my father had his first heart attack. He dont' know that was heart attack so he went to his company panel clinic, doctor gave him gastric medicine, after he took that medicine he still feeling bad until we have to take him to hospital.
In year 2005, doctor found his artery blocked and he must do an operations as soon as possible. Cost for the operations at private hospital nearly RM30,000.00 so we decided to take him to General Hospital but very dissappointed with his condition he have to wait nearly 6 months for his turn to do bypass operations at General Hospital. Luckly we found somebody who very sincere to helped us to pay deposit for my father to do bypass operations at private hospital. He safe my father life and we never forget him.
After that operations my father looks more healty. Until today he still on medication and always exercise..
Regards
Nor
it hasn't been proven that the drugs that lower cholesterol actually prevent heart disease or heart attack ... but there ARE known risks of side effects for those drugs ... and the drug companies aren't going to be telling you or your doctor about all that if they can help it (look at the recent cover up of vytorin and zetia) ...
so, you're taking drugs with no known benefit but with known risks ... it seems to be illogical ...
if you're following the ornish program, that's really the best thing you can do for yourself ... if you give your body what it needs ~ the food, exercise, and stress relief ~ it really will heal itself ... really ... it's designed to do exactly that ...
of course, you'll have to make your decision yourself and, perhaps, with your doctor ... it's a very tough thing to do, especially when there seem to be so few hard and fast answers ... but, it wasn't a plavix or lipitor deficiency that caused your heart disease ... and you're addressing the actual cause ...
that's my opinion, for what it's worth ... probably just about $.02 lol ... btw, i just figured out how to comment here ... and it's an interesting subject ...
again, nice to meet you and good luck ..
xoxo
lisa
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