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Posted 11/14/2013 11:48 AM (GMT 0)
good morning everyone. haven't been on in a little while so thought i'd check in and say hello.
nothing much going on right at the moment but i did receive a call from the surgical center yesterday
telling me the basics of pre-surgery. sure we can all relate to that one...lol. anyway thought i might
hit a pot in the road. last friday i had a pre surgery screening and everything went good except for
my ecg. came back abnormal...GRRR!!..so i went to my cardiologist and he scheduled an echo doppler
which is friday morning. so if that goes good (hopefully) than i'm all set for the 26th of nov...yeahhhh.
hope everyone is doing as well as can be today. take care all and have a good day.
Posted 11/14/2013 12:13 PM (GMT 0)
Hello Mark and thanks for checking in. Many times and many of our meds have recently been found to cause some problems with the QT patterns in our ECG's.Arrhythmia 's arise out of prolonged use at the upper doses. The very known one's are or were Darvon(darvocet) nolonger available, methadone, Nucynta, Butrans, suboxone &Subutex, all those now have warnings attached to them.

I don't know if your presently on any of those or have ever been but thought I'd mention it. They're finding this "quirk " in a lot of old CPers! Let's face it there was times when the answer to any long-term pain was Darvocet!

So just a thought to keep in mind and hopefully all will go well and you will be heart healthy and ready!

Good luck!
Posted 11/14/2013 12:26 PM (GMT 0)
hi vickie, thanks. last monday i had an appt. with my surgeon and showed him a copy of my ecg and he didn't seem to concerned about it. my appt. with my cardiologist was yesterday and he didn't seem to concerned either. he did change my med from simvastatin to lipitor. ethier way i'm a positive person so i'm confident things will work out just fine...
Posted 11/14/2013 4:11 PM (GMT 0)
Hi and since i have not been on for a while myself, I dont even know what surgery you are having, but since I was on I thought I would say good luck to you and my most sincere blessings for you.

Kathy
Posted 11/14/2013 5:52 PM (GMT 0)
hi there kathy, well i'm going to have a pain pump put in my lower back this nov.26th. (my b-day) lol
so far i've been through all the screening and had a medical clearance also. so looks like a go for the surgery.
i've had four back surgeries over the past 8 years and no real luck fighting the pain so this appears to
to be a last ditch effort to help out. well time will tell...
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