68 yr. old mail.
Have been taking Zestril ( 10 mg/day ), and 1 Aspirin/day for several yrs
now.
Usually, my blood p runs around 125 over 70.

I'm a first time poster here, and this post is long, so I hope I don't
offend or bore people on this forum.
 One night after driving home for about an hour I came inside my house
and was standing talking to my brother when all of a sudden I felt

Has he left this group?  Never heard anything from him after the floods :-(

Is it good to take Niacin 50 mg on a long term basis to avoid
the use of Zocor - 10 mg . I am a diabetic - 2 and my A1C is 6.2 .
TC - 172 , HDL - 40 , LDL - 97 and TG - 175 . The doctor says
that my LDL should drop down to 70 and advised me Zocor 10 mg .

When I had my MI I was told the blockage was calcified. I asked what the
significance of this was. They said they didn't know. I was told some
people have a waxy substance and some are calcified. Does anyone know if
a waxy substance turns into calcium?

A friend had a pacemaker fitted about 14 months ago, at the same time he was
prescribed Amiodarone. He has asked me to enquire as to why he should be
taking a drug to increase his heart rate when he has a pacemaker to reduce
it.

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I'm 66 yo, 6' tall and weigh 164, play 1.5-3 hours tennis (doubles at
3.5 level) 5-7 days/wk, lift weights every other day for 1 hour, with an
overall muscular and slender build and have always been active and in
good shape and good health.  My mother also was in great shape and

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I lost 10 lbs in the month of September.  How?  Very simple.  I have
been teaching in a small town school in China since September 1st.
Each day, I have been eating 3 meals in the school canteen.  There is
hardly any pan-fried food here.  Everything is boiled!  The meat, fish,

Could it be...?
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This entire drug approval system is so severely distorted, is it any wonder
people are losing trust in doctors and medicine?
Per testimony in the Vioxx trial, Merck and the FDA fought for TWO YEARS
over label warnings that Vioxx could cause heart attack and stroke.

I wa taking a combination of the above and Candesarten for hypertension,
during the second year of taking this my platelet count started reducing and
at approx 2 years I lost my voice which became chronic and follwing two
visits to a consultant in ENT was advised that he would like ...

Too many posts less of value or life living help
Attacks the norm
Hostile replies the norm
Both sometimes of little compassion.