Comments on: Boring Health Update

By: Frank Paynter

Frank Paynter — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:10:54 +0000

Winston, in fairness to Meredith and Dr. McDreamy, it’s how they’ve been taught. Their customers expect them to offer pharmaceutical and/or surgical solutions. I asked them why someone would elect surgery since it’s not life threatening and it’s easily controlled. They told me about the roofer who didn’t think twice about taking the curative surgical option. In no way did he want to be two stories off the ground faced with sudden dizziness, clamminess, and weakness. That said, your sense of the market dynamics here are probably exactly right. They hire those highly qualified electrophysiologists so they can do expensive procedures.

Tamarika, thanks!

By: tamarika

tamarika — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:25:52 +0000

I’m with you on the splashing water on the face - yes indeed! And how’s about less coffee rather than no coffee? Or whatever you choose I trust your judgment. After all, you know your body best!
Fabulous story! Just my cup of tea…

By: Winston

Winston — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:32:56 +0000

Ain’t modern medicine wonderful! Splash cold water in the face indeed… Why even suggest (1) and (2) if it is not life threatening and cold water in the face will take care of it? Guess they just needed to meet their monthly quota of destroying nerve pathways…

By: Frank Paynter

Frank Paynter — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:59:51 +0000

It could be lupus…

By: madame l

madame l — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:43:58 +0000

(trying out a password protection thing for my blog and attempting to find a work-around for the default pw page… just an experiment. username=actualreader password=montaigneoutofmolehill if you care.)

no, frank, i was having Very Severe arrhythmia for a couple of months, which can be a side effect of the mean-o-pause. i switched from being a chronic coffee drinker to being a chronic black tea drinker and it stopped. so i get my caffeine and drink it too. of course, to rule out the possibility that it was a coincidence i tried coffee again and the “i’m having a heart attack” arrhythmia came back immediately. YMMV.

if chris can quit smoking…
and,”it’s not lupus“.

By: Frank Paynter

Frank Paynter — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:00:20 +0000

I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a cholesterol laden glob of fried beef on a bun today!

* * *

zo, the surgeon WAS a teenager.

By: madame l

madame l — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:45:06 +0000

swimming, tea and a couple of sun salutations a couple of times a day. less complaining, Mr. J. Wellington Wimpy.

(i’ll chat you a piece of my mind later, innit.)

By: zo

zo — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:48:02 +0000

>“Fo’ shizz” says the surgeon.

He did not.

p.s. try organic coffee. yum.

pps. best writing ever! (you got a teenager?)

By: Frank Paynter

Frank Paynter — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:04:57 +0000

I really don’t like the idea of dropping the coffee entirely. I’m such an abstemious schmuck already. Dropping caffeine, fat and sugar would leave me empty. Life (sob) would scarcely be worth… (choke) I wonder if Betty Ford has a program for coffee addicts?

By: tom

tom — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:18:17 +0000

My dad had a chronic arrhythmia that is probably quite distinct from the Avnurt, then again maybe not, but anyway, he was put on Beta Blockers (this was back in the late 80s or so, whole different generation of meds of course) and they proved quite a bad idea. Major disorientation, shakes, etc. He took himself off of them and went cold turkey on coffee, and saw immediate good results. He also swore that garlic pills helped. Any sort of garlic, but he used Kyolic garlic. Didn’t altogether resolve issue, but stabilized and it became a non-issue.