I was placed on statin medication (Simvastatin (Zocor) 20mg daily)
about a year ago because of cholesterol at 'the high side of normal'.
I have no heart didease, no history of cardiac problems, but have Type
2 Diabetes and hypertension (both medicated). After about a month on

ok, so my doctor wants me to get one to see if i have pulmonary
hypertension, and if i still have a congenital pulmoary artery
stenosis, that we fear i may not have outgrown. all i gotta do is call
them back, and say i'll do it. and they will schedule it. the doctor

anyone ever get that feeling in the lower legs, like... the muscles
start going into a tight state and sometimes some swelling, and the
back of the calfs, especially feel like a cool burning sort of a
feeling.. that feels slightly below the skins surface? almost as if it

I have intermittent afib and have been on Coumadin for years.
The result of my PT/INR check of today came out as:
-PT activity 26%
-INR 2.49 (my target range is 2 - 3).

Be sure to peruse the whole article at below URL.
I'm concerned that with the OK to do more protein some thing like this
may fall through  the cracks.  It does not address weight loss but the
effect of additives into our food chain here in the U.S.A.

The fat-loss programs you read about in muscle mags from the 80's and
90's are based on out-of-date exercise science and nutrition
information. <br>
Exercise science has advanced by leaps and bounds just in the last two

False prophet Andy Chung failed to predict the earthquakes in Japan
over the few days that killed one person and injured many.  Obviously
his mission to "inform" people is 100% worthless.

Admittedly, when MacLeish used that phrase, he was in fact
talking about "The End of the World":
   http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/457.html
However, in our more mundance case, 3/3/07 will turn

Map searches on all map servers return a street intersection when
queried for 5701 Mableton Parkway.  There's an office building of
some sort, with an empty parking lot, but that comes up as 5710
Mableton.

There's a good paper (METEOR study) in the current JAMA.
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/297.12.1344
And there's a very perceptive editorial, also.
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/297.12.1376v1

1 John 2:15-17
 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If any one loves the
world, love for the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the
lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of

I have been living with Cardiomyopathy since June 2006.  I am taking beta
blockers and ace inhibitors and am being kept an eye on by a wonderful
cardiac specialist nurse.  (The cardiologists are inundated with waiting
lists here in the UK and I'm still awaiting the appointment I ...

I suffer from atrial fibrillation,and have been prescribed warfarin to
prevent blood clotting.The question is should I come off the aspirin 75mgs
which I have been on for some time,I understand that they do different
things.The warfarin prevents clots the aspirin thins the blood  ...

As from my other posts its very apparent to me I need
to start serious exercise program
I'm curious what others are doing?
Do you exercise indoors on machine such as recumbent

im sure most of you have been reading up on my saga of a mess.
anyways, on my recent DVT scan, everything was decompressible, except
for this area near the bottom of my right leg.. above and behind the
ankle, where the tech and my doc think its some sort of arterial