I dropped most of the weight I've lost recently went I stopped taking Paxil. Now I have to work a little harder and when I get that exercise in I lose. I've stabilized the last 4 weeks. But the diet is still back to normal and I didn't really go crazy over the holiday.
I am on a good track.
thank you again for your insight. It is very helpful to my emotional aspect of this stuff.
Hi trackermom,
We meant on another thread about aortic aneurysm.
I perform and manage a cardiovascular lab performing many tests including carotid artery tests.
Given the nature of ultrasound and having seen that many radiologists read the tests that have no clue as to what they are reading, some do, many do actually.
The result is that even if it says, actually we read normal tests as and I quote, "Normal flow with less than 50% stenosis"
That is stated on EVERY normal report and I posted on another thread a day or two ago when I popped in here. That, even if no plaque is seen, its often stated as minimal plaque noted, basically its b/c if you say NO plaque and there is plaque and everyone who does these tests knows there is no way to visualize the whole carotid artery b/c of anatomy and structures. That if you say No plaque you are a setup to a huge lawsuit if an unvisualized portion does indeed have a plaque, that it is irregular and traps blood that coagulates and comes loose and causes a stroke. Then you are sunk.
So moral of the story is, its a normal test with the typical CYA medicalese written into it (cover your ***). And your cardiologist recognized it as he also reads these tests and knows the lingo. The primary doctor well, they play in a different world that cardiovascular people with way more on their plate.
Continue doing what you are doing, take your benicar hct for bp control, control your cholesterol, dont smoke and exericse and get skinny.
There, I saved you a few office visits and some $$$
The old joke in cardiac medicine is "that all we know about cardiac medicine, it really just boils down to walking an hour a day".
Now it can be that simple in most people, but some stragglers can have the liver causing cholesterol problems or kidneys set their bp thermostat too high and you need meds.
But still, getting to ideal weight and then walking an hour a day. You';ll never have to worry about this stuff
Is it blood pressure medicine?
Seems that blood pressure is the reason I have some stenosis. Well again I am being treated. I really wish the doctor would have been more forthcoming with what having high blood pressure can do I would have started treatment two years ago when it hit 140/90.
Then it went to 160/100 for awhile.
Well it is under control with minimum dosages. So that should stop progression.
Thankfully I don't have a cholesterol problem.
No personally, but my Mother in Law has 60% blockages in hers. She is on medication because she had problems from them. She would often faint, or get severe dizziness.
They have said that if her symptoms are not controlled by medication then they will look at intervention surgery. So far, 6 months, the medication is helping.