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All of the below is just medical shit if yer not interested in such things.....Did they put her on Brilinta now? $400 a month medication. It didn't work at first but it kicked in after a few weeks. Way better than Plavix for keeping the arteries open and the blood flowing. Your wife may get a lot more bruises now if she's on the Brilinta
Weird how this plaque shit works. How it only affects the arteries in the heart and very little elsewhere in the body. I mean they took perfectly normal arteries to bypass the old blocked ones and BAMM, a few years later those arteries are blocked.
She got the fentanyl too wow. I've had 8 stents since my bypass surgery and the last one was the same as your wife. I was in and out of consciousness and I had no idea if I was going to make it. Was whacked out of my mind for 2 days afterwards.
They say if I get clogged again the will have to use the rotor method or another bypass because the laser didn't work well on me.
@V256.420 .... Her gig isn't about clogs/plaque...it's about fucked up signals from the brain to her heart...mostly causing afib....(was constant of late/for the last 3 weeks @120)....then severe bottoming out. Like 140bpm to 32 in a minute or so. Had the EMT's here a few months ago cus she went down/fainted. I caught her before she contacted the floor but it was close. Overall....the heart doc said the condition of her heart was like a 30 year old. It's the signals that were crossed/causing the problem. Once he got in there and did his Star wars shit...she instantly dropped from 120 to 65...where she's stayed ever since.
Same experience/cause with her sleep apnea. Not obstrctive from obesity... (thankfully!)....it's messed up pathways/signals from the brain....aka..central sleep apnea. At one point she was stopping breathing once a minute. The ASV has fixed that.....and we hope maybe this procedure MIGHT change her numbers on the SA front as well if the afib was/is the cause. We will see. Weird shit though...
Funny how we all do differently with this stuff. My wife was restless/in some pain right after the procedure...so they gave her the Fentanyl then. I laughed cus it took 3 shots to get her to calm down...and then the nurse looked at me and said 'it's good pain meds but she'll probably sleep for a few hours now"...
Taking a cue from me..i guess..and how i react to the narcs....not a minute later her eyes popped open...she looked at me..and said 'I'm feeling much better now". LOL. I got the old head nod/dirty look from the nurse when I said 'Well honey...Keith Richards just came by and gave you some love...and things are always better with lots of love"....heehee. From there..the wife was wide awake and thinkin'.... 'get me the fuck out of here"....LOL.
FWIW/on the BIG PHARMA front...LOL....she's been on Xarelto for 3 years...$600 a month....Metoprolol (cheap)..and Fleconaid for 2 years or so. All totalled...about $700 a month if we had to eat it/pay it. (love you ACA) They added pentaprozole, colchicine and aspirin for a month. Then I believe after the month is up they will try backing off the metoprolol and the fleconaid and see how her heart reacts. She'll always be on the Xeralto because she had a TIA at the very onset of all of this shit when we first detected the afib. The only good thing about the Xeralto is that even without major shit we hit our deductible in like march...and after that..it's a free concert from there on out...everything is covered for the rest of the year. Comes in handy when you see the bills from this shit.... wow.
I hope you can stay clear and avoid further BS. The next step here is a pacemaker...so I'm crossin' my fingers all goes well. Fun stuff.