Re: OT - The doctor *won't* see you now

LJM wrote:
Dom Robinson wrote:

It's worth having a quick health check with your doctor, and then a
follow-up every couple of years. They'll do basic blood and urine
tests and hopefully all that happens will be that everything is
fine, but if they do find anything then it's better to know before
it becomes a problem later.

My mother had a "heart problem" for years, based on the data from an
ECG. They said her artery walls were getting clogged or something. She
was on several different medications for it. Beta blockers, EC
aspirin, cholesterol reducing pills, etc. You may remember my
waffling about this in the early noughties. ;)

Four years down the line, she began having chest pains again (these
are what caused her to go for the ECG originally) and they decided she
should have a procedure which involved a tiny camera being inserted
into an artery in her thigh, and sent up to her heart in order to
examine a valve (or valves). I can't remember the name of the
procedure but she was terrified throughout because one of the
complications was "sudden-death". Others involved stroke, or being
left in a persistent vegetative state. Minor stuff like that. <g>

Anyway, there she was during the procedure, on the verge of a panic
attack throughout, watching the screen showing the camera coarsing
through her veins...when the consultant said "oh, they aren't clogged
at all." He arranged for her to wean herself off the beta blockers,
got rid of all her medication except the EC Aspirin (he figured it
was good to keep her on those due to a history of strokes in the
family), but to this day, the chest pains remain unexplained and my
mother is slightly pissed that she risked sudden death for a problem
that didn't exist, but for which she was treated for four years
anyway.
Is it still worth going for that quick health check with the GP? <g>

Yeah, probably.

Blimey! My David has high blood pressure and we are determined he won't go
onto beta blockers after hearing of all the side effects. How did your Mum
cope with them?



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