Another Hydroxocobalamin Benefit

[Guest guest]

I got home today from my angioplasty - finally. Very interesting week.

2 weeks ago I had an angiogram - and that evening after taking my 10

mg of hydroxocobalamin - I flushed again - just like you do when they

add the dye to your heart. Benefit - it seemed so.

Well last Wed I did NOT take my hydroxocobalmin [ nor night before ]

after having 2 medicated stents and extensive angioplasty done [ they

use dye during process too] - B-12 being in my hotel room. Was

released Thurs morning. They had gone in thru my right wrist.

After a snooze [ it was very early when released]

My wife and I went out to do a little shopping while in the city [

really supposed to be resting for 2 days afterwards ]- at noon my hand

turned beet red and wrist plus arm swelled up then went down- had

another snooze back at hotel - woke up with full feeling - had a bite

to eat then a quick bath - noticed whole body was swollen - ambulance

ride to ER where heart rate hovered in 40's, blood pressure was a bit

low and O2 fell below 90% quickly unless given O2 continually. Was

given my b-12 next morning and again that night. Taken up to cardiac

ward [ Friday night ]and late next day after being up and about [

relatives visiting ] arm swelled while we were watching - nurses cut

off wrist name tag. A few minutes later the swelling quickly subsided

most of the way - weird.

On Monday they did another angioplasty just to make sure restentinosis

wasn't happening [ stents clotting ]. Nope stents fine. Now for

interesting part.

Asked the Cardiologist [ invasive - can do test but he is not a

stenter ] about chelating with my B-12- He OKed it- This was at 12

noon Monday- 25 minutes later my feet just burned from the dye being

chelated by the 10 mg B-12 - hydroxocobalamin. Had my regular shot

that night.

Thus Hydroxocobalamin can be used to chelate out the dye used in

angiograms/angioplasty - HOWEVER - I estimate that best benefit would

be to have taken 25 to 50 mg or more of hydroxocobalamin shortly after

the procedure is done in order to chelate it out as quickly as

possible so it doesn't lodge in the body's cells which makes it harder

to get out for several days. Yes I can feel it. It makes one antsy.

Any way - another cardiologist [ echo ] redid my meds - cutting out 2

and cutting another in half - no more problems so far.

Another side benefit - was treated by very young VERY GOOD nursing

staff in cardiac ward [ my wife and other man's wife agreed - VERY

good ] - new ward 3 weeks ago - many nurses new last July thus they

still have that fresh way of treating patients as people. Didn't hurt

that some of them were attractive - a couple even pretty ;-) Although

I have to say most of even the older nurses such as in the ER and Cath

lab take VERY good care of their patients at this hospital in

Newmarket, ON - I was very impressed with the care as was the old

gentleman sharing my ward -this after the mostly mediocre care in our

tourist town hospital [ there are some good staff but .... ]

The 5 doctors [ 5 doctors 5 opinions ] never really did figure out for

sure what caused the swelling - all tests negative but figure it was

probably a combo of irritation to heart, the dye, too much exertion

too soon and medication sensitivity [ caused by ME/CFS ].

Moral of the story - don't forget your protective meds like B-12,folic

acid, magnesium, etc. especially when going into the hospital.

in ON end of book :-)

[Guest guest]

,

Glad to hear a happy ending to this story, I'd been wondering if you'd had your

procedure done and how you were doing, sure hope this helps in the long run. I

think the moral of the story is nothing is easy for a cfs patient. When I had

nose surg. 4 yrs ago my heart stopped on the table and nearly died. Course they

didn't expect it, did'nt listen to the anesthesia rec's for cfs patients, just

ignored it all (which nearly killed me). They just 'don't get' how sensitive our

systems are. Its a miracle we continue! I hope the worst is over now, keep us

posted!

Marcia

Another Hydroxocobalamin Benefit

I got home today from my angioplasty - finally. Very interesting week.

2 weeks ago I had an angiogram - and that evening after taking my 10

mg of hydroxocobalamin - I flushed again - just like you do when they

add the dye to your heart. Benefit - it seemed so.

Well last Wed I did NOT take my hydroxocobalmin [ nor night before ]

after having 2 medicated stents and extensive angioplasty done [ they

use dye during process too] - B-12 being in my hotel room. Was

released Thurs morning. They had gone in thru my right wrist.

After a snooze [ it was very early when released]

My wife and I went out to do a little shopping while in the city [

really supposed to be resting for 2 days afterwards ]- at noon my hand

turned beet red and wrist plus arm swelled up then went down- had

another snooze back at hotel - woke up with full feeling - had a bite

to eat then a quick bath - noticed whole body was swollen - ambulance

ride to ER where heart rate hovered in 40's, blood pressure was a bit

low and O2 fell below 90% quickly unless given O2 continually. Was

given my b-12 next morning and again that night. Taken up to cardiac

ward [ Friday night ]and late next day after being up and about [

relatives visiting ] arm swelled while we were watching - nurses cut

off wrist name tag. A few minutes later the swelling quickly subsided

most of the way - weird.

On Monday they did another angioplasty just to make sure restentinosis

wasn't happening [ stents clotting ]. Nope stents fine. Now for

interesting part.

Asked the Cardiologist [ invasive - can do test but he is not a

stenter ] about chelating with my B-12- He OKed it- This was at 12

noon Monday- 25 minutes later my feet just burned from the dye being

chelated by the 10 mg B-12 - hydroxocobalamin. Had my regular shot

that night.

Thus Hydroxocobalamin can be used to chelate out the dye used in

angiograms/angioplasty - HOWEVER - I estimate that best benefit would

be to have taken 25 to 50 mg or more of hydroxocobalamin shortly after

the procedure is done in order to chelate it out as quickly as

possible so it doesn't lodge in the body's cells which makes it harder

to get out for several days. Yes I can feel it. It makes one antsy.

Any way - another cardiologist [ echo ] redid my meds - cutting out 2

and cutting another in half - no more problems so far.

Another side benefit - was treated by very young VERY GOOD nursing

staff in cardiac ward [ my wife and other man's wife agreed - VERY

good ] - new ward 3 weeks ago - many nurses new last July thus they

still have that fresh way of treating patients as people. Didn't hurt

that some of them were attractive - a couple even pretty ;-) Although

I have to say most of even the older nurses such as in the ER and Cath

lab take VERY good care of their patients at this hospital in

Newmarket, ON - I was very impressed with the care as was the old

gentleman sharing my ward -this after the mostly mediocre care in our

tourist town hospital [ there are some good staff but .... ]

The 5 doctors [ 5 doctors 5 opinions ] never really did figure out for

sure what caused the swelling - all tests negative but figure it was

probably a combo of irritation to heart, the dye, too much exertion

too soon and medication sensitivity [ caused by ME/CFS ].

Moral of the story - don't forget your protective meds like B-12,folic

acid, magnesium, etc. especially when going into the hospital.

in ON end of book :-)

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