RE: Re:Instead of baby aspirin

July 7, 2003

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From: cindy rickel

Since you suffered from a blood clot, maybe you can take a drug like Plavix.

I

*******My .03

I have coronary artery disease and a three year old pouch. The disease

made itself knows at 16 months post op but I had gotten a fairly good list

of not so good drugs to take before then, i.e., asprin, etc, and had babied

my pouch from the beginning. I had two stents placed in the LAD and Right

Circumflex, but they blocked again immediately and two subsequent heart

catherizations to verify and one other imaging procedure. My cardio doc,

being a client of mine knew me and even though he was keenly aware that I

had had RNY prescribed asprin anyway,,,,when I talked to him about he

slapped his forehead and said " I forgot and was just not thinking. " He then

prescribed Plavix and said that he would give me this instead and said that

basically they do the same thing re platelet sticking etc., but that asprin

was just ever so much cheaper and most folks did just as well with it.

After by bypass last September, I am proud to say that I am on no drugs for

blood thinning but I have added garlic to my supps as one of the things I

do, along with megadoses of Dry E,,,,,,,along with folic acid and one or two

other things. I also followed Carol's advice about doing Omega 3 oils,

and/or cod liver oil and switched to daily consumption of Flaxseed having

become convinced that it is the better choice. Four months ago my blood

lipids were 155/69 and the cardio doc wants em even lower and wanted me on

Lippitor. I declined to risk my liver with the ratios that my diet and

other supps have given me. My rheumatoligist agreed with my decision,

telling me that he felt that drug was a liver killer. I see way too much

liver probs in most of us anyway and mine has been abused for the majority

of my adult life anyway.

Bottom line here for me as always is, it is about personal research, making

health decisions for myself and trying as best I can to be informed.

Personally, my phlilosophy is the least amount of chemicals I add to my

body, the better off I am.

Dan Slone

Surgery 5/2/2000,Yahoo Msg navwriter

AIM Navwriter58, ICQ 260890468

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