Hi Guys
Thank you all in advance. Update on hubby.
To remind you of his background, two stents in 2018. He has heart disease due to genetics not lifestyle. He doesn’t drink excessively or smoke, has a bit more tum than in his youth but still does a physical job as a builder. He’s been on a low dose Avristatin, Asprin, Ramipril and Lansoprazole for 5 years without any checkup or review since discharge from consultation care
His B12 was 201 ng/l (145-800) and folate low, but iron high (over upper limit by 33%), MCV elevated too.
He’s had 12 B12 jabs and 5mg folate and is feeling better and acting better too! Now onto once weekly then monthly .
Seen cardio and had ultrasound - perfect - stents clear, no iron build up in the heart, all pumping well as it should.
Resting cardio, “odd” and treadmill cardio showed “odd” responses according to Cardio consultant but hubby had no chest pain or discomfort firing 9 minute exercise and recovered well. His starting BP was high at 160/96 but Cardio consultant put this down to the test conditions. Hubby is usually around 140/90 but we are working to reduce it to 130/80 if we can.
Cardio is comparing “odd” results to discharge results in 2018 as “odd” might be normal for hubby.
Cardio is taking hubby off Lansoprazole (yay!) and putting him on something “less effective” but not damaging to stomach (ironic as the Lansoprazole is described as “to protect tummy” on the dispensing label!).
No other change to meds.
Cardio not concerned about the diagnosis of autoimmune thyroid disease. Is this because of the medical “silo” mentality as I expected it to be of more interest?
Next step it to get GP to test T3 and T4 - another battle probably but I do hope not! Just to make you laugh after all the fuss by the GP over hubby NOT needing B12 they called him in fir a blood test - you guessed it - they tested his B12 and are concerned it’s too high now 🤦♀️🤦♀️
Hope I have given a reasonable take on what’s in my head!
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