txdon
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. . . but anyone out there care to weigh in on having the procedure? . . .
B John
Two words. Caldwell Esselstyn
. . . but anyone out there care to weigh in on having the procedure? . . .
B John
I had 5 way bypass 12years ago..It hurts no doubt. I started walking the day after even though it hurt like ****. It heals you and soon you will love walking. Just get it done it's better than the alternative, 8 weeks later the pain will start going away.. If you never had chest pain before,I would get another opinion from a good heart surgeon ..I had pain whenever I walked up a steep hill..The Doc gave me a stress test and said I was fine..I went to another Doc told him I was having pain when walking up hill and I wanted an Angiogram he found 5 stuffed arteries. Just like every job you have ever been on there are good workers and bad ones, same with Docs. I'm 71 now and walk 3 miles 5 days a week and look forward to it...
.... but it's the forced inactivity afterwards that will drive me crazy. I don't do daytime TV.
B John
I know exactly what you went through BKBrown,
I had the same exact symptoms with the Atorvastatin horse pill and it took a complete New York Times Health Ssection article from the science section on Tuesdays to get them to change my statin drug as I could barely get out of bed the pain was so bad. I am using Rosuvastatin in a 10 mg dose now and finally I have no issues with pain from this specific statin drug.