How do I confront my Rheumy?

Hey Lori.. wow.. that's not good.. maybe you could file a complaint against your doc? You said he knew you were on the Zocor right? And what it was for? I think you should find another rheumy... hang in there and keep us posted on what you decide...

Duck

   Hi Lorie, there is a (B-5) Pantothenic Acid that has taken many from a bedfast situation and put them to living again.  There was only one small book I ever saw on it and I loaned it and I never got it back or have I ever found it again in any book store.  That is sort of the way I lost many health books.

    Your doctor cannot prescribe it because everything they have is a B- complex where all are combined in their prescription books that are written by the pharmaceutical companies.  Any local health shoppe should have it.  I had to use it on my gout as my regular meds would not take out the infections.  By the way it doesn't cost much at all, it is according to the strength you want to buy.  I bought the last for my spouse, 250mg for something like $7.00.   (This is not to be misconstrued as medical advice but is for informational purposes only.)   Zocor is for high chlesterol 

 and tere are some ways to get buy that.  Walmart sells Flax Capsules for around $5.00 per bottles and it does more than any statin drug ever made for cholesterol.  But again the doctors are the outsource for the drug manufacturers.  Many doctors are unaware of the benefits of these over the counter medicines, unless they are a specialist who will tell people different things because the insurance companies don't want to pay for a good prescription even if it doesn't work. God Bless. Julie1

Thank you all for your responses, it is a blessing to have you all listening to me. I hope you all are in not so much pain. Blessings to you all.

Ducky,
I really wished I could change to a different Rheumy, and I still may be able too I just need to see how it works. I really think he is afraid to treat me. I was going to change insurance co. but I was in the middle of serious heart tests and I was to sick to put it off. So I thought ok I'll give it till next year. Then I'm scared of the co-pays on the enbrel and other meds. From what I hear they are so expensive...out of my league. I'll see what he does on my next appointment.

Yes you all are right. It was prescribed for my high cholesterol.
Straydog,
My cardiologist had put me on the zocor. I was on so many meds at the time because all the issues I was having, so I didn't even think about the meds. side affects. I always read the leaflets too, but it didn't register to me what was happening because I was too sick with the pleurisy, pericarditis, vasculits in one of the main arteries to the heart, myositis of the heart and MVP all within three months, (all caused from my RA) they were all overlapping each other. Kind of confusing but I really think he could have helped me some how. As far as him not prescribing me any other meds I can understand that, maybe he was too scared to because the shape I was in. And it being heart issues. But I was truly in agony. I had suffered for months. Hadn't slept for months either.

Julie1,
Thank you sooo much for the info. It's funny because of all I went through I am currently reading a book called natural cures. Pretty scared of meds now. Except the ones I know I can take. But for right now I have to be careful at least till I know I am out of the woods with these heart issues.

Ides,
I am sorry that you had to go throught that too...It's aweful especially when you are really sick....that really just about did me in.
The thing that really gets me is he knew that I had myositis (caused from the RA). The myositis was on the heart muscle itself. Now it being on the heart you would think the cardiologist deals with it but so does the Rheumy because the cause is RA. I would have thought he would have at the least made me take some tests to see if it really wasn't the myositis getting out of control, after all myositis is a rare and very nasty disease to the muscles. It can actually damage the heart muscle to where that part of the heart doesn't move at all anymore. I was thinking it was going into my other muscles. He had just talked to my cardiologist about my diagnosis. He wanted me to start my enbrel to stop the progression, I was in heart failure, when you're in heart failure you can't take the enbrel. Luckily for me the myositis was on the front of the heart so cardiologist thought it was ok to start the enbrel. So I knew he knew what was going on so therefor he should have known something was wrong, I was complaining about severe weakness in my legs and arms to where I was unable to walk, or even talk at times. I didn't know it was the med. How come he didn't think it could have been the progression of the myositis? Remember this was all caused from my RA. Not only that, but I have Fibro too, and is it ok for him just to tell me there is nothing I can do? He ticked me off...sorry for venting and thanks for listening to me. I will let you all know what goes on after my appt. on the 27th. Another thing... that sucker cancelled my appointtment, it was on the 13th. Especially knowing how sick I was and am.....URRRR!!!
Lori

She's a smart bean, our Erin.. :)

hey it's okay to have a breakdown in front of your doc!  it's good..reminds em' that you're human.  Lord knows i do it now & then.

oh thank you but it's fine...i'll get my crutches soon...that was kind of your offering; the pharmacy around the corner carries crutches.

you hang in there.  we're all pulling for you.

take care.

 

Keah,
Thank you and that is what I intend to do. I am just going to talk to him about what had happened. I am going to take this up with my cardiologist because now I am finding out that this med. can cause myositis and she had just diagnosed me with myositis a month after taking the med and said nothing. I just know I learned a very dangerous lesson. No matter how sick I am too make sure it is safe for me to take. I just found this last night.....I am not the suing kind of person but I think they need to be more aware of what they are prescribing and to further see what other illnesses people have before prescribing them.

Drug-induced myositis — In drug-induced myositis, muscle inflammation occurs as a side effect of a medication or a combination of medicines. Although this is rare, the most common medications that can cause myositis are the cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins — including atorvastatin (Lipitor), lovastatin (Mevacor) and simvastatin (Zocor) — especially when combined with other similar drugs, and zidovudine (Retrovir), also called AZT, a drug used to treat HIV/AIDS.


Thank you,
Lori