Re: Medications and supplements

[Guest guest]

Lynn,

> It is my life's ambition to get off of these

> drugs, and in fact I've cut the number of heart meds I take in half.

Good going! There's so much evidence that CoQ10, L-carnitine and

possibly also hawthorn, can do as much as any ACE inhibitor can. I've

heard of people using doses up to 700 mg of Q10, but under a

physician's supervision, monitoring blood levels. Some people just

don't absorb it well and need lots more.

Do you know of Langsjoen? He's a cardiologist in Tyler, TX who

uses high dose Q10 with his patients and has actually been able to

take some patients off the heart transplant list.

About feeling sick, maybe your BP went too low with the combination

of things? My mother started to get dizzy and sick from her ACE

inhibitor even though it was the same dose as usual, so she had to

cut back the dose. Having such high BP, it never occurred to her that

her pressure might be too low now, but it was. Maybe you're doing so

many good things for yourself that the meds are too much for you now!

Also, the meds deplete certain nutrients, so that can cause reactions

too especially after you've been on them a while-- I know ACE

inhibitors deplete zinc, but I don't know about the others.

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[Guest guest]

> About feeling sick, maybe your BP went too low with the combination

> of things?

That's my suspicion. It passed after a while but left me shaken the

rest of the day.

Lynn S.

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[Guest guest]

> That's my suspicion. It passed after a while but left me shaken the

> rest of the day.

> > Lynn S.

Yeah, that can be nerve wracking. I had that experience once when my

doc gave me a tiny dose of a beta blocker while in his office. My BP

plunged so low they couldn't read it. He had me in a reclining chair

practically on my head. If I had been home alone, I probably would

have freaked, but he was so cool about it, reassuring me that my

pressure would just come back up.. eventually <lol!>.. and it wasn't

dangerous.

Of course the idea of giving a beta blocker to someone whose BP was

already low, seemed a bit nuts to me to begin with :-)

I hope can you get those dosages adjusted downward!

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[Guest guest]

> ~~What's an ACE inhibitor?

Angiotension Converting Enzyme inhibitor. (More:

http://www.hcoa.org/hcoacme/chf-cme/chf00021.htm)

I'm actually on an ARB (angiotensin II receptor blocker) inhibitor,

Cozaar, because ACE inhibitors make me cough ferociously. I still

haven't gotten my voice back completely and it's been months since I've

been off Enalapril. I want off ALL of the damn things.

Lynn S.

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Lynn Siprelle * Writer, Mother, Programmer, Fiber Artisan

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Siprelle & Associates: http://www.siprelle.com/

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