I am on Toprol XL 50 mg and Hytrin 5 mg for BP control.  In order to track
the medication effectiveness I did a one-time check of my BP every 1/2 hour
for 24 hours...skipping sleep time.
Systolic pressure averaged 145 with a range of 125 to 160

Excuse me my English. I was getting a slight pulsating chest pain that occurred in the middle of my chest if I'm not mistaken in the "breast bone" area. It was occurring for several minutes following several hours of painting my room (low odour water based paint). It is a very ...

I've been on 20 mg of lipitor for 10 days now and I want to stop
it and go on relatively high niacin with garlic and other nutrients
and diet changes.  I'm wondering how many days I should be off
lipitor before I start the niacin.

My EKG came back as :
Borderline, possible left ventricular enlargement
What does that mean in plain english ?

So let's review...
Andrew B Chung lasted 88 days in Ocala, FL, gets fired for gross
incompetence. Plays the "I'm being discriminated" card. Having failed
that, plays the "They want me to lie" card.

nybody have any advise or warnings regarding this.
  thanks in advance,
  jim

Does anyone know of an alternative message board to this one? One not
infested by the religious lunatics, that is?
Thanks to those of you who tried to give sensible answers to my (to me)
important question, but it really is too difficult to try and get about

If you are looking for answers to your cardiology questions and not
religious lectures,
http://www.medhelp.org/forums/cardio/
The above link is run by the cardiologists at The Cleveland Clinic.

I have lived with Heart palpitations most of my life.
It's very uncomfortable, sometime real scary. But  I have learned to
live with the condition which is supposedly due to a leaky mitral
valve. It hasn't slowed me down too much. Have always jogged,

Since I was put on Vytorin, Plavix, Toporol and Altace seven months ago
I haven't noticed any side effects. However, I'm always concerned
about how my organs will react to log term use of statin drugs. While I
know my cardiologist would say that "cycling" a stating would not give

"Arndt's law ,  Arndt-Schulz l.  weak stimuli increase physiologic
activity, moderate stimuli inhibit activity, and very strong stimuli
abolish activity. See also hormesis.
hormesis (hor·me·sis) (hor-me´sis) [Gr. hormesis rapid motion]  the

Back from the Doctor today and he prescribed Atenolol, a beta blcoker.
Now that I do a little research I find it has an increased chance of
stroke. Im going to ask him to change the drug.
I used hyzaar before but tried to wean myself off it but my systolic

I am saying farewell.
To those of you who offered sensible suggestions, my thanks.
To those of you who didn't.... nothing.
Apart from the suggested alternative websites/message boards/help

Attack: I recently had a heart attack while exercising. My angiogram
showed 100% blockage of the right coronary artery. The blockage was
cleared and a stent inserted within about two hours. Damage was minimal
and I could engage in normal activities and start strenuous exercise

I've been having pain in my chest around my second rib. Someone in
alt.med.fibromyalgia gave me a link to an article on costochondritis.
Costochondritis sounds exactly like what I have, but I just want to make
sure this isn't angina.