Shucks! Glad to hear you are doing well.Goofproof wrote:Afraid I can't send him, I was 17 then he was probably 45, so he would be dirt by now. Strange thing, I had gotten a appointment in a bigger city 75 miles away, with the new dr, as it turned out the Dr I was to see was in a bad car accident, and I saw his replacement. This Dr introduced me to his underlings as the worst case of parent uncle Perry knuckle (sp) warts he had ever seen. For a year and a half, the local Dr had been freezing them with liquid nitrogen and acid treatments. The new dr did the same, but he put me on 150,000 units of Vit A daily, I was under control in 6 months, been taking 50,000 units of Vit A daily ever since.49er wrote:Den, thank you for the links. I will take a look at them. Excellent advice on getting BP taken correctly in office with an old fashioned machine.
SNO - NIH sponsored this study but as someone pointed out in the comments section in the NY Times, there has been a revolving door between BIg Pharma and the government so it is understandable if people still are leery of the study. Call me cynical but I would love to know the background of the folks on this study.
Jay - I am skeptical of what your doctor said but perhaps that is my cynicism at work again? Obviously, you have to do what you feel is best but with a BP of 127/70, I would be leery of med side effects that doesn't seem worth the the trouble in getting it down to that magical level.
Sew Tired - Exactly about med side effects. WTF, taking 3 meds to get BP down to that magical 120/80 reduces the risk of death? Ok.
I have white coat hypertension by the way and now realize with doctors who throw a fit about a high reading that I need to have taken readings ahead of time to preempt their concerns. Works like a charm.
Nan - LOL at your comment that doctors would prescribe meds for a hangnail if they had the chance. Probably be an antidepressant.
Goofproof - Can you send your dermatologist my way? The last one I saw was a complete quack unfortunately.
CathyF - I am no doctor obviously but it looks like you would need something like a 24 hour blood pressure monitor to see if you had a problem or not.
Pugsy - You are right about the BP guidelines being 120/80. But I now sense that when doctors medicate patients for high BP, they are not going to be satisfied with the previous 140/90 goal which will mean more meds and more side effects.
That car wreck was the best thing that ever happened for me Dr wise, the right person at the right place.... jim
I didn't think Dermatologists were capable of being quacks but the last one I saw due to an unusual mole distribution diagnosed me with something that was totally off base. I had none of the issues associated with it other than the moles. I think she did what was known as diagnosis anchoring and decided I had something and it didn't make a darned bit of difference about what I told her that didn't fit the picture.
By the way, I found this out when I called the office for another reason. God only knows what else ends up in medical records that doesn't belong there.