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- Neurology Community

I'm a very healthy, active man weighing about 198 lbs. For the last 3 years, I was managing my idiopathic peripheral neuropathy ( burning and tingling sensation in my feet) with fairly low doses of Lyrica. Not really a problem with exercise and walking....

Statin and blood sugar

- Cholesterol Community

Hi, I'm 35 y.o. female, 5'4" 117 lbs (lost 15 lbs in the past 6 months). I've been taking pravachol 20mg for 6 months now. My total cholestrol has been lowered from 330 to 233. My questipn, however, is about whether statin drugs will raise blood suga...

Amiodarone dosage after CABG

- Heart Rhythm Community

I'm a 63 year old male who had no risk factors for heart disease, exercised two hours a day, had no chest pain nor shortness of breath and had passed routine stress test with ease. However, after feeling faint lifting weights, an angiogram revealed major b...

hypothyroidism or viral infection?

- Undiagnosed Symptoms Community

Hi, I'm 34 year old female, normal weight and clear medical history until recently. The following is just a non-exhaustive list of the problems that I've had or been diagonsed with in the past 6-12 months: - 20 lbs weight gain within 1 year; - hair loss...

Statins and symptons mimicking restless leg syndrom

- Neurology Community

I was prescribed Lipitor for high cholesterol in 1997. In 2001, following a sleep study, I was found to have restless leg syndrom and prescribed Sinemet for the symptoms. Over the years the symptoms increased, and I now have severe lower back and neck pain...

Colestipol cost:benefit assessment

- Heart Disease Community

My cardiologist has prescribed an increasing dosing regimen of colestipol granules to help lower my LDL level. Here are my last two most current labs from before I started the colestipol. I eat a lower fat diet, exercise by walking 40 minutes 5-6 times p...

simvastatin

- Cholesterol Community

i m on simvastatin 40mg 1 every evening. i have noticed memory loss, i keep forgetting little things like where i kept my shoes or medicines and choice of correct words while speaking, also when i m driving i lose direction sometimes to my home. i m al...

Extensive Plaque Burden

- Heart Disease Community

I just received the report from a heart scan that says: total calcium score 1241 with the left anterior descending artery taking the brunt at 782. Question: how long does it take to get this bad? I had a CT scan 10 years ago and they told me then that one ...

5wks post tx, got sick!!

- Hepatitis C Community

My tx finished 5 wks ago give or take a couple days. Last Sta. I started getting dizzy. It seems now I probably have ear infection. Yesterday I started throwing up. It was so violent, I broke blood vessels in my eye....Hah. I cant hardly hear either. My qu...

27 Male, High Cholesterol, Worried

- Heart Disease Community

27 Male, High Cholesterol Oh no, high Cholesterol at 27, that’s bad is it not? I have been ill for roughly 3 years, having been posting on and off on the forums during that time ( Mostly in ENT) anyway, recently was treated for a deviated septum...

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