Wow great I’ve been taken off the hated clopidogril but had to have rivarauxaban put up to 20mg. Couldn’t wait for this day. A year after my heart attack. So pleased.
Also been told I’m doing well with my pacemaker. Let’s hooe it continues. I go back to hospital 1 July and hope everything’s ok. What a year especially when you walk “40 mins and do the gym and eat healthy. Can start doing arm exercises as well.
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What was it about that drug that was so awful pink? I'm interested and empathise with your remonstrance cos I've spent the last couple of days being pumped full of drugs for angina, including your dreaded clopidogrel. Classic case for me of pitching up at hospital thinking chest pains on my daily walk were heartburn, only to be whistled into the emergency room with suspected heart disease*.
I'm hoping that on my release from hospital on Sunday I'll be saying goodbye to all of the nitrates, beta blockers, platelet solvents, anti-coags and statins - at least for a short while. i've reacted well to the drug onslaught and, based on a 30 minute pain-free forced march around my unusually large hospital bedroom this morning I've been downgraded to stable angina and have license to roam to a more technically adept coronary unit in Bangkok, or maybe even back to my beloved Papworth hospital in Cambridge for a Cardiac Catheterisation procedure to see if there's artery damage that needs fixing.
While stuck in my local regional hospital in rural Thailand these last 36 hours I've been acquainting myself with my new world of heart drugs on the internet (got to do it yourself here - the doctors tell you nothing - you even have to ask what the drugs are as the nice nurses hand them over like sweeties at feeding time. Interestingly, the ratings (or should that be ragings?!) given generally to cloppydog are much more benign than for statins - Lipitor and its ilk. I'm not looking forward to fighting the doctors on that one if I have to be stented in a couple of weeks time!
But while I question your impression that cloppy is a beast for many I'm with you as one on the outrage over getting a heart condition. What me, active and fit, non-smoker, moderate drinker (except when out with my Hash House Harriers) and friuit'n'veg non-inflammatory diet junkie? There aint no justice - the last area of my body I expected to cave!!
*Actually it's a longer tail of woe than that. When pains first emerged in my walks 2 weeks ago I thought it was probably a lung problem associated with my bronchiectasis, so I came into this hospital to see my thai lung consultant of 5 years standing. He ignored my request for an X-ray, listened to my chest and said it sounded really clean (which it did, but even clean-sounding lungs can be early-stage cancerous or illustrate a re-emergence of a long-ago lung lymphoma). Instead he played heart specialist and put me on an EKG, declared that 'no problem' and ushered me out into the world of potential upcoming heart attack with a "come back if it gets worse sign-off". Pure negligence which, for his long-serving sake and the fact he is the only non-bozo pulmo in town, I will sit him down and talk to him man-to-man about rather than sue his proverbial off (legal action doesn't work in a 2nd world country like Thailand anyway and luckily there's no apparent direct damage caused by the delayed correct diagnosis).
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