RE: Crazy Old Man Needs Help
I think my 'high blood pressure' is an artificate of the 'system'.
back a few years ago I was fine..I was a trucker then, had been for a couple of decades...I had to get a 'drivers physical' every two years...for my age it was ok...until they revised the standards...DOWN.
they made 140 the cutoff.
so...if I wanted to work...I had to take medication..
then the problems begun...
I attribute the sleep apnea, the typeII diabetes...and all the other stuff to the highblood pressure drugs.
One of them almost killed me...I'd been taking it for a year or two...and Suddenly WHAMO!...allergic reaction...my face swelled up like a ballon. I was rushed to the emergency room...the doc said "you're lucky to be allive...if (x) had swollen, instead of (y)...you'd have sufforcated in your sleep.
so I dropped THAT drug...(I was taking several...still am) but I had to continue taking the others to keep the blood pressure down...
(sniffle)...
I could continue with my sad...sad...story But..
I cried because I had no shoes..
Then I met a man with no feet...
so I wont'.
I broke my back in '85 and am supposed to be in a wheelchair by now. I have to take pain meds and I had this fly-by-night doctor that was more like a drug dealer. Every time I went there my BP was through the roof! They put me on BP meds and every morning I got up and immediately passed out.
The meds were the problem... the stress of going tp that doc was the problem. That stuff is really bad... at least if you don't need it!
yup...too many are exactly that...pill pushers..
but how can you know?
if you pay for expert advise...best take it.
other wise don't even go to the doctor.
You could tell by the patients in this guy's office, most looked like junkies. The rest didn't look like there was anything wrong with them... The real tip-off was when he got busted!
that would be bad.
I'm on medicare...I can't 'rock the boat' too much..
but that said...I've been thru 3 doctors in the last 3 years..
(young snot nosed punks.....I want an old fart who'd been around the block...not many of them left)
My PCP is a woman from Cuba... not a great doctor but a really caring person which is fine... I coach her along. My pain specialist is a little black lady that's really nice (but she won't give me enough meds).
sounds like a good mix.
foreign born are better than snowflakes.