Whole Mess of Replys, Answers, Whatevers, Etc. - No. 2

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Hello here again,

Joan, don't think that I'am angry or anything like that. I know you may forgot about what I had written about last fall. But I feel to some extent you just don't understand the predictament that I'am facing. It is right now in my present time of my life, not three months ago, not last August. It's now as I write/speak or whatever in this e-mail.

You mentioned lately that I should take this Aleve medcine. I have known what this is for years. It is an "over-the-counter" anti-inflamatary drug such as Motrin that you can buy at Walgreen's, Walmart, K-mart, your local grocery store, etc. This is like Prednisone in anti-

inflamatary nature wise that is but alot more milder than Prednisone.

My personal primary care doctor that I had from Aug. 1999 to Nov. 2001 was Dr. Krieger (for you ladies, he is good looking but I believe he was and perhaps still is married) at Advanage Health s.e. location in Kentwood, Michigan. Advanage Health is part of St. 's Hospital health care organization in the Grand Rapids metro. area. Advanage Health is what you call a H.M.O. I believe. Anyway Dr. Krieger told me not to EVER take Ibruprofen (generic term for such as Motrin) and asprin (such as Bayer) because this could lead to me having stomach bleeding ulcer. This was specially more of a concern for me because I've had a history of having stomach ulcers. Dr. Krieger told me not to take this ibruprofen back in April of 2001. This was 4 months BEFORE I found out that I had something going on in my lungs. Also this was 9 months BEFORE I found out that this "something" in my lungs was Sarcoidosis.

Fast forward to 2003 or was it 2004? My primary care doc. now, Dr. Vande Haar (Dutch last name in case you are interested) told me that because I was having mild symptoms of Sarcoidosis and also BECAUSE of my history of having these Peptic Ulcers is why I WASN'T PUT ON TAKING PREDNISONE. Alot of you folks perhaps remembered that I had written all about this, in fall 2004. I had said this "Roadmap" of my life that I knew I was facing of getting to a "T" shape road intersection of my life if you can call it like this. Things haven't change at all. This like back last fall and even more so now, it is just basically I'am SCREWED if I can call it that.

First of this year, I've thought to my self that I would take something like Prednisone or this drug itself, because if it came to it I DON'T want to have something like seizures, strokes, etc.

And also if I developed a bleeding ulcer, or develope stomach well it's like big damm deal!

On the contrary to this I felt like I didn't WANT deteriotation of my stomach in getting a bleeding ulcer or more than ever of having a even more of an extreme high risk of getting stomach cancer than I already have now existing in me. If I did not take Prednisone and developed seizures, strokes, etc it is like big damm deal! Do you Joan and perhaps anyone else understand now? Like I said last fall, "Damm if I do take Prednisone, Damm if I don't".

All what I have said above is in a smaller percentage amount though, was an contributing factor why I had been so depressed late last summer and was an contributing factor why I had those sucidal thoughts too. Lately, in these last 2 months I think, this arthritic pain in my knees has been bad enough that Salasate, and Tynol type medcine isn't doing hardly or even no good at all. My gut feeling is that it is just going to get worse. I'am about 70-80 % feeling now that I have no choice and have to start taking Prednisone or something comparable to this.

Again Joan, I'am not angry at you for mentioning that I should take Aleve.

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