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Originally Posted by flsun01
...at all. I'll be damned if these doctors are'nt absolutely obsessed with numbers..the lower the better. Until all your numbers are zero and you are taking a dirt nap. Because everyone should have a BP of 110/70. -an a1c of 5.0- and cholesterol of 100! A year ago I felt fine . I built a backyard deck ,put up a fence with post hole diggers ,planted a rose garden for the wife...well..you get the idea. Now I cant do crap, my wrists hurt ,my ankles hurt, hell, my whole body hurts! But boy am I healthy ..just look at my labs ,thanks to statins, bp meds,metformin etc I will probably be miserable all the way till 90 ! Last March I was sitting in the doc's office holding a ziplock bag of ice cubes in my hands because of pn and all the doc and RNP could do was pat themselves on the back about my LDL of 50 ! I haven't had a LDL of 50 since I was a teenager! And my glucose was down from an a1c 0f 9 to a 6 ! Now, I'm not nearly as smart as some on this site and damn sure no doctor but lowering lipids that fast ( 1 month ) has to radically change the environment of your periphial nervous system. Oh well..dont mind me doc, I'm just a patient. My apologies for the ramble and I will get off my soapbox now....Tom..ps;I stopped the damn statins!
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You are expressing very accurately what is happening today in medicine.
Quality of life, is not considered. These studies become like bibles to these doctors. And in many cases the studies themselves are flawed in some way.
It took about 6mos or more before much of the data from the HERS study was released. And that data was OPPOSITE the data supplied by drug companies themselves for 20 years to doctors, about estrogen replacement therapy, based on drug companies funded studies.
I'd like to know who funds the ACCORD study.... drug companies perhaps? I am going to look around for that info.
Low B12, low folate cause increased homocysteine. Homocysteine damages blood vessels. So patients receiving metformin should be taking both of these vitamins to replace what is lost. This is not a "secret" or made up in any way.
But for some reason doctors won't pay attention to these facts.
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