Re: Re: HCTZ - proceed with caution

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You can now tell him he was wrong I assume. Take send my evolution article to all who missed messed u the last 8 years. Tiped sad Send form miiPhone ;-)May your pressure be low!CE Grim MDSpecializing in DifficultHypertension

This reminds me of one time about 8 years ago I went to the ER

with a BP of 225/120 even while taking 5 BP pills.

The intern mentioned to me that it was not normal to be on 5 bp meds

with a BP like that- duh! I now clearly remember him saying

something about a

phytomas@@@@ some kind of tumor on the adrenal. He said he would

check my blood. I was then admitted and the doc on the floor didnt

follow through.

I wonder if this could have been caught 8 years ago.

I didn't know it was PA but I knew something was wrong. My

cardiologist only wanted to add pills. I was in the hospital 4 times

last year

with side effects of medicine. It seemed like whenever they added a

med, my bp would go higher. Of course no one believed me

The ER ppl started looking at me funny and treating me rude cause

at one time I was there 6 times in 30 days with muscle pain, chest

pain, short of breath,

severe fatigue, leg pain. Finally I just stopped going. They just

kept writing essential hypertension. I did ask my doc if I could

have secondary hypertension. He said he doubt it.

I got ya. PA compounded everything

for you. Me too, though weight isn't

my issue (I am definitely not at my

best weight for my body type though).

PA has truly been a life altering

disease and I still see one website

that says it's over-rated and others

that say maybe up to 10-20% of HTN may

be PA. Either way we have to help find

those who have PA BEFORE their life is

altered and miserable. Educating

doctors, pa's, and NP's will be the

best thing. We all kind of know about

it, but it isn't much on the radar so

it's thrown aside and lumped in with

rarer things like cushings etc.

You know I bet a good study would

be to find out how many PA patients

actually were the first to mention PA

with their provider, instead of the

provider being the first to suspect

it.

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Subject: Re: HCTZ

- proceed with caution

To: hyperaldosteronism

Date: Friday, September 2, 2011, 2:06

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