Comments on: Boring Health Update http://listics.com/200803043976 We're beginning to notice some improvement. Thu, 11 Feb 2025 05:48:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.7 By: Frank Paynter http://listics.com/200803043976/comment-page-1#comment-53486 Fri, 07 Mar 2025 16:10:54 +0000 http://listics.com/200803043976#comment-53486 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 http://listics.com/200803043976/comment-page-1#comment-53485 Fri, 07 Mar 2025 14:25:52 +0000 http://listics.com/200803043976#comment-53485 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 http://listics.com/200803043976/comment-page-1#comment-53481 Fri, 07 Mar 2025 12:32:56 +0000 http://listics.com/200803043976#comment-53481 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 http://listics.com/200803043976/comment-page-1#comment-53475 Thu, 06 Mar 2025 20:59:51 +0000 http://listics.com/200803043976#comment-53475 It could be lupus…

]]> By: madame l http://listics.com/200803043976/comment-page-1#comment-53470 Thu, 06 Mar 2025 15:43:58 +0000 http://listics.com/200803043976#comment-53470 (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 http://listics.com/200803043976/comment-page-1#comment-53464 Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:00:20 +0000 http://listics.com/200803043976#comment-53464 I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a cholesterol laden glob of fried beef on a bun today!

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zo, the surgeon WAS a teenager.

]]> By: madame l http://listics.com/200803043976/comment-page-1#comment-53457 Thu, 06 Mar 2025 07:45:06 +0000 http://listics.com/200803043976#comment-53457 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 http://listics.com/200803043976/comment-page-1#comment-53455 Thu, 06 Mar 2025 05:48:02 +0000 http://listics.com/200803043976#comment-53455 >“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 http://listics.com/200803043976/comment-page-1#comment-53452 Thu, 06 Mar 2025 02:04:57 +0000 http://listics.com/200803043976#comment-53452 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 http://listics.com/200803043976/comment-page-1#comment-53451 Thu, 06 Mar 2025 01:18:17 +0000 http://listics.com/200803043976#comment-53451 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.

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