Some people don't really enjoy the taste of their food. They like cleaning their curtains and clothing more than other people do. Some people even enjoy the little holes that the ash burns on their trousers. Perhaps you don't mind if someone flicks their ashes into the wind and they get into your eye. Maybe you even enjoy going into a... Read more
1. I can't get my blood pressure under control, why? 2. I am taking Cozaar for high blood pressure. Some days my readings aren't too bad but there are days with very bad readings. I am taking Hawthorn and yesterday my blood pressure was very high, so I decided to take a table (sic) of Potassium, and today I repeated. I wonder if... Read more
A very nice patient of mine died this summer. This former teamster spent most of his life enjoying his "golden brew" though he had had to cut back in recent years after recurrent episodes of alcohol related pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas). These episodes had damaged his pancreas (the organ that makes insulin) enough to give... Read more
Most of us have had the experience of seeing a tire or inner tube that has a bulge in its side or a balloon that has a weak spot and doesn't fill normally. Some of us have also had the experience of what can happen when the tire, inner tube or balloon that is weakened by one of these "blebs" loses air and needs to be replaced.... Read more
I was diagnosed with Diabetes Type II in 1999. Prior to that date my blood pressure readings were averaging 147/91. In January of 2000 my doctor put me on Lipitor. Could my HBP be considered a secondary condition that is likely to be caused in part and/or aggravated by the diabetes mellitus? Multiple readers have noted that... Read more
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