Re: Plavix (is my doctor a quack?)

From: Dr. Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD (nospam6_at_heartmdphd.com)
Date: 11/29/04 

Date: 28 Nov 2004 16:00:46 -0800

"oreo123" <oreo123@comcast.net> wrote in message news:<fcKdnVlAE99qvzfcRVn-vA@comcast.com>...
> Here it is in a nutshell....
>
> No family history of heart disease no stroke. At 49 I had blocked right
> coronary artery heart attack... Male, non smoker, 5'8" 180 pounds.

Here you may possibly be 40 lbs heavier than "ideal."

> Arrived
> too late and just cath'd. Placed on lipitor, folic acid, lisinopril, toprol
> (originally metoprolol)... Three years later - Sept 04 had stress test and
> cath'd. Placed 3 stents. One artery - left side - had gone from 40 to 80
> percent blocked in 3 years and was stented. Other stent was from heart
> attack which was now closed to 90 percent. Plus another stent downstream.
> Was placed on plavix. Then almost 3 weeks ago had a stroke. Had double
> vision and then left side went numb. Regained left side - vision is still
> double. Placed on cumodin. In hosp they found hole between heart chambers
> that 20 percent of us have. They looked at legs for clots and found nothing.
>
> Here are chol numbers before 3 stents installed and before the stroke... Yes
> I modified diet intensly but we are not discussing that here. Well yet.
> 5/28/04 Friday.
>
> B.P. 100 over 64 and heart rate was 56.

Optimal.
 
> Chol 111 <200 mg/dl

Optimal.
 
> Trig 65 <150 mg/dl

Optimal.
 
> HDL-C 42 >41 mg/dl

Not optimal (> 50 is optimal).
 
> LDL-C 56 <100 mg/dl

Optimal.
 
> Risk factor 2.6 0-5.1
>
> PSA .43 0 - 4.0 ng/dl
>
> And 4 years ago not fasting these were the numbers...
>
> total 239

Not optimal.

> hdl is 39

Not optimal.
 
> ratio is 6.1

What were the triglycerides ?
 
> I cannot understand why I had a stroke while being so good with diet and
> meds.

Quite possibly underlying metabolic syndrome (MetS) may not have been
addressed. What have been the values of your fasting blood glucose ?

> One more mistake was not having long term disabilty insurance as I am
> , well was, self employed.
>
> I had someone tell me yesterday that doctors get a commission from drug
> companies for placing someone on drugs. Is that true?

No, it is not true.

Supposedly that was
> reported in AARP.?

AARP is not a news agency.

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Andrew 

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