Submitted by Dr T on March 21, 2012 – 8:23am Question: I’m 19 years old, and I was diagnosed with GERD in 2010. I’ve had it on and off since then but sometimes the symptoms get really bad. I want once chest pain so bad because of the acid reflux, that I went to the ER. They performed an EKG, …
Of men and women’s reproductive health
After the recent vile remarks by a certain talk-show host about women’s sexual and reproductive health, today a Ohio legislator introduced legislation to demand equal treatment of a man’s reproductive health: Viagra and the little blue bill of Ohio. The bill would demand that a doctor certifies the patient has experienced erectile dysfunction, as well as testify the patient is …
Be careful to use Dabigatran
As we have recently written, the benefit of Dabigatran as protection against stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation needs to be weighed against a significant (28%) increase in the risk of serious and sometimes fatal bleeding, myocardial infarction and acute coronary syndrome. A review of a number of recent studies showed this to be true across a broad spectrum of …
An irregular heart beat with a history of SVT
Submitted by Dr T on March 13, 2012 – 9:18am in Your heart rhythm Question: I am 22 with type 1 juvenille on-set diabetes (18yrs.) I also have hypo- thyroid. I had the cardiac ablation in 2008 for SVT. Was doing fine , for the last 4-5 months I have had rapid irregular heart beat constantly. It makes me nauseaus …
Bloodthinning and warfarin
Submitted by Dr T on March 13, 2012 – 9:02am in Your heart rhythm Question: I am a 63 year old male with controlled chronic hypertension (Cozaar 100mg)and atrial Fib. I was also recently diagnosed with COPD and late onset asthma (two inhalers and Singular).Over the years it has been recommended I thin my blood as a preventive to stroke …
LBBB
Friday, July 31, 2015 Submitted by Dr T on March 9, 2012 – 3:43pm in Cardiac Risks Question: Hello… I am 72 yrs old, and in reasonably good health, I think, considering I have not been in a hospital overnight since 1983, and that was for a D&C. Now I need a knee replacement. I was going through all my …
Statins Are Associated With Significant Increase in Diabetes Risk
Recent studies of popular statins showed a significant increase in the risk for diabetes associated with statin therapy. More potent statins that include Zocor (simvastatin), Lipitor (atorvastatin) and Crestor (rosuvastatin), particularly at higher doses, are associated with a higher risk for diabetes. A publication of The Women’s Health Initiative analysis of more than 153,000 women, ages 50-79 diagnosed more than …
Cholesterol
Submitted by Dr T on March 7, 2012 – 10:23am Question: I am a 60 year old male. There have been no incidents of heart problems in my family history. My family doctor had prescribed crestor to reduce my cholesterol level last year. I had taken that for several months, and noticed tingling in my hands, my knees hurt so …
Bradycardia worse with exercise
Submitted by Dr T on March 7, 2012 – 10:12am in Your heart rhythm Question: When I was a teen I was diagnosed with bradycardia after an episode on syncope. At that time my resting pulse was 60 but the Holter monitor said it dropped into the low 30’s during sleep. I’m now age 50 and have been exercising 6 …
Heart
Friday, July 31, 2015 Heart Submitted by Dr T on March 3, 2012 – 11:12am Question: Hi My name is Ken. im from AustraliaI am 55 years old Male about 6yrs ago i had a stent put in laddue tohigh colestrol was put on Plavix 75mg 20mg nortelTaken off Plavix about 4yr ago still suffering from angina shortness breath chest …