Re: OT: Something went a bit haywire....Make sure you keep

Posted by trucker40 on October 09, 2009 at 07:48:07 from (69.151.60.109):

In Reply to: OT: Something went a bit haywire....Make sure you keep posted by Dan Swanson on October 08, 2009 at 19:57:46:

I had the same thing when I was 51,5 bypasses.One thing you want to do is look on the food labels and see how much sodium is in the food you eat.You have to lower that so there may be 2 things that are the same price but one has 40% of the amount you can eat in one day the other might have 10%.It will surprise you to see how much sodium is in food you buy.My guess is that right there is a big part of the problem because a couple of years ago doctors started saying something about it and sodium levels dropped in some foods like potato chips and bologna because kids were dying of heart attacks.You want to watch your blood pressure too so get one of those machines if you dont have one and check it a lot to see if its going up or down.That will help your doctor know how much blood pressure medicine to give you.You also want to exercise.Walking is good.Just have to start slow and build up.I had to use a cane for a few months because I couldnt walk when they worked on me and couldnt write and couldnt even see very good when I woke up in ICU 4 or 5 days later.I fell down the first time I tried to walk in the hospital but in a few days I could walk with help and walked out on my own.You want to take some fish oil which helps and I got some liquid vitamins which helped.You need to ask your doctor about that stuff but mine told me to take that stuff.I still had to go back 3 times to get more stents.Diet has a lot to do with it.They will say its genetic or I smoked and of course that was blamed for it.I was in the hospital with a woman that was 57 and had never smoked who got bypass surgery.Smoking is bad for you,but clogged arteries is an epidemic.Some say its additives in food,but of course no doctor will agree about that.Its smoking,eating salt,to them,and while this stuff is bad for you,your arteries are still getting clogged even if you cut down and quit smoking like I did.After that and the 5 bypasses and the vitamins I had a bypass collapse and started having congestive heart failure.My feet would swell up,I also had angina and was taking 100 nitro pills in 3 days.When I went to the doctor he put me in the hospital and put another stent inside of a stent to open one of those bypasses.That helped a lot but I still have trouble and take a nitro pill once in a while.I also take blood thinner and cant stop taking it.If you are taking Plavix and stop taking it,you can have problems,like blood clots in your lungs that can be fatal.I tried a few months ago to quit taking Plavix and in 3 days started having problems so the doctor told me to keep taking it.Its taken 3 years but my blood pressure is finally down like it should be.Just that there helps in how I feel.Ive taken a few different blood pressure medicines,different doses,and what finally worked is a 25mg pill in the morning and 25mg pill at night of Metropolol.Also a water pill.So after 3 years my blood pressure is finally under control but it was a struggle.Then it seems like your kidneys work better,you arent so tired all the time,and if you exercise you loose some weight and feel even better.Since you had surgery you need to get checked for Diabetes especially if you start having problems because you can get it from the surgery.I lost about 40 pounds and was drinking a glass of water every 30 minutes then started going into shock one night before I found out I had diabetes.My blood sugar was like 580 and it should be under 100.I had to go to the hospital to get it down.Im the only person in my family thats ever had diabetes.Im starting to feel like that dog named lucky.Im also happy that I can tell you this stuff because I have some friends I went to school with that are dead now.One died 2 years ago and was the same age as me 54.One of them didnt smoke and died of a heart attack last year.Another one drove a snowplow for the state died a couple of weeks ago and was younger than me 53,not overweight,but he had some other problem too.Seems like everybody I know has high blood pressure.All of us used to drink a lot.Actually I think my health went down hill once I quit drinking.I cant drink taking some of the pills that I do for Diabetes.Any way thats what I can tell you about it.Im no doctor but you have to kind of help them out by watching your blood pressure and what you eat.Bypasses help you some,but they might not cure you.Even the way you are built has something to do with it.That could be where the genetics come in,but it sure seems to me that anybody is liable to get heart disease.

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