drug compliance

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Pierre,

Your line about not taking stuff triggered an issue I've been meaning to

raise... I walk an uneasy path between trying to let be commissar of

his own meds/BP and dealing with it myself. I figure the more he does it

himself, the less adolscent pushback I'll get. However, this approach

doesn't always work, and I find myself nagging when he doesn't take them.

This summer he's going to be living at the theater - and our solution is

that he will take them and call me on my cell afterwards. Still, I know I

miss giving him pills periodically. On several occasions, I've found the

stray blue lisinopril wedged in the corner of the pill container... If I

screw up with my best intentions, I know he will because he's because he's

so damn cavalier about it all. I know this is more about

adolescence/child-rearing than IgAN or kidney disease...

I guess my question is what motivates (or demotivates " ) one not to take

one's meds? I keep thinking that if I have a better understanding of this

it might help.

Your renal dietician reminds me of an old teacher of 's. It was not

for naught that the kids and parents alike called her General Schwartzkoff.

Cy

Dentist

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> > Hi everyone:

> >

> > I had to go to the dentist to get a cracked tooth fixed, but they

> > wouldn't touch me untill I got a signed letter stating my condition

> > and what they could use and not use on me. I took the letter to my

> > Neph and he said to make sure that I am not de-hydrated and to drink

> > around 3 glasses of water prior to any procedure. While I was there

> > he told me to double my Lipitor. I didn't have the guts to tell him

> > I wasn't even taking the drug because I thought the last lab I did

> > was incorrect because I did not fast prior to giving blood. But the

> > new lab work that I did he just received and I guess it was just as

> > bad so now I'm taking the Lipitor too Pierre. Have to see how it

> > goes.

> >

> > Gordon

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