Re: Plavix (is my doctor a quack?)

From: Ed Mathes (emathes_at_rochester.rr.com)
Date: 11/28/04 

Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 01:16:14 GMT

Are you blaming your stroke on the medications?

How do you explain the coronary artery disease requiring angioplasty and 3
stents?

"oreo123" <oreo123@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:1uidndWvL9VghDTcRVn-pg@comcast.com...
> I too was placed on plavix after 3 stents installed a couple of months
ago.
> I was told that it was for keeping clots off the kind of stent used.
>
> I was already on aspirin, toprol, folic acid, lipitor, lisinopril from
heart
> attack 3 years ago. Total chol was around 114 and other numbers were just
> fine in checkup 2 months ago.
>
> What I cannot understand is how I tossed a clot into brain and had a
stroke
> 2 weeks ago. Have regained left side of body but still have double vision.
> On even more meds now - cumodin...
>
> Never thought that the heart condition would cause a stroke too. Oh ya 53
> y.o. male with no family history of this stuff. Non smoker. Not overweight
> either.
>
> Who knows what the long term affects of these drugs are???
>
> Oreo
>
> "Phillip" <kingphillip@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:7cb78d74.0411271538.19ec6d8c@posting.google.com...
> > My cardiologist put me on a whole array of medications including
> > Plavix after an angioplasty and stint insertion. They included blood
> > pressure meds, high cholesteral meds, asprin and Plavix. I told him
> > after my first follow up that I didn't want to be on the medications
> > because I hate taking drugs as I figure they mess your system up and I
> > don't have high blood pressure or high cholesteral. He checked my
> > charts and said..."I'll be darned your cholesteral is great and your
> > pressure is nothing to be concerned about but we do give everyone that
> > has this procedure this basic med package." I told him again that I
> > didn't want them and he took me off but kept me on Plavix and asprin
> > of which he said I would probably be on "FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE!".
> > From what I have read Plavix should only be neccessary for 3-6 months.
> > I have been taking them for one and one half years and I have
> > developed terrible nose bleeds and bruise very easy. I am 43 and in
> > very good health and with the exception of the blood clot in my heart
> > that started all this I never get sick..not even colds. I no longer
> > see him because he sent me to collection because I couldn't pay my
> > total bill. So I think I am going to stop taking the Plavix and stick
> > to asprin and B-Complex as well as fish. Does anyone offer any
> > suggestions or advice or have any information about treating heart
> > condition with nutrition? Thanks
>
>

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