Re: email group helps healthcare

[Guest guest]

Hello Gretchen and all,

Owen here, Sharing recent help I got from belonging to a CMT groups.

My last annual physical the doctor wanted to put me on Lipitor

for high cholesterol. At the time I remembered I had read something

about people that had CMT should not use any of the " statens "

(Spelling?) because in some cases they caused a peripheral neuropathy

(Spelling?) and I mentioned that to my doctor. I told him before I

would consider taking any drug to lower my cholesterol I wanted

to check my past e-mail for the articles. I also told him I wanted

to try lowering my cholesterol through diet first.

After six months I went back to see the doctor for follow up. I had

taken a print out of the article and gave it to the doctor to put

into my file. After he read the article he was so happy I didn't

take the Lipitor and that I was active in my own health care. The

result was I lowered my total cholesterol from 253 down to

229 with just diet. He is happy with the results and I am staying

on the low cholesterol diet.

If I had not belonged to the CMT groups I could have more problems.

They have been beneficial for me. I wonder if we, the people

belonging to these groups are in general more proactive in our

health care? May a topic for one of your polls?

Happy Trails,

Owen