The cardiologist that we saw for 30-40 years started having problems not only that but he didn’t practice in the better of two hospitals in the area.
One hospital is clean and modern and the other doesn’t look like anything has changed in a hundred years.
So we went with the cardiologists from the better hospital and were listed as patients of the head cardiologist.
We saw him once and his associates a couple of times, just long enough for them to change my long standing dosage of medications and BOOM just like that the head cardiologist up and retires.
No warning or anything, he’s just there one day and gone the next.
So the hospital assigns us to a cardiologist that we know nothing about plus the fact that we don’t even see him until January 20.
So we were basically without a cardiologist for about 4 months.
During this time while I have been getting my cataracts removed and recovering from having my back problem it got to where I was having a problem trying to get my BP under control.
I saw my GP and he helped by increasing one of my meds. from 2.5mg X2 to 10mg once a day.
10mg helped but it was a little too much.
I have found out that 5mg of that same med plus what I was taking for 30 years keeps my BP in a decent range.
Before anyone questions why we changed cardiologists from our original it is because he started having mental problems.
One of the last times I saw him he listened with a stethoscope to my back and said “there, right there, you are able to stop your heart at will.”
I may have been able to relax enough where it might have made it harder for him to hear but I really don’t think that I am able to do tricky things like stop my heart at will.
That and a few other things.
He got to where he seemed angry all of the time so that was scary.
He is probably the best doctor that I have ever seen and he saved my life at least twice so it was a difficult decision.
My wife and I always see the same cardiologist and our GP helped her with a BP problem too.
We have been heart patients long enough to know a little about how things work and know that most of the time when they change BP meds the doctor cares about monitoring the results.
Right now it kind of feels like we are doctoring ourselves.
One hospital is clean and modern and the other doesn’t look like anything has changed in a hundred years.
So we went with the cardiologists from the better hospital and were listed as patients of the head cardiologist.
We saw him once and his associates a couple of times, just long enough for them to change my long standing dosage of medications and BOOM just like that the head cardiologist up and retires.
No warning or anything, he’s just there one day and gone the next.
So the hospital assigns us to a cardiologist that we know nothing about plus the fact that we don’t even see him until January 20.
So we were basically without a cardiologist for about 4 months.
During this time while I have been getting my cataracts removed and recovering from having my back problem it got to where I was having a problem trying to get my BP under control.
I saw my GP and he helped by increasing one of my meds. from 2.5mg X2 to 10mg once a day.
10mg helped but it was a little too much.
I have found out that 5mg of that same med plus what I was taking for 30 years keeps my BP in a decent range.
Before anyone questions why we changed cardiologists from our original it is because he started having mental problems.
One of the last times I saw him he listened with a stethoscope to my back and said “there, right there, you are able to stop your heart at will.”
I may have been able to relax enough where it might have made it harder for him to hear but I really don’t think that I am able to do tricky things like stop my heart at will.
That and a few other things.
He got to where he seemed angry all of the time so that was scary.
He is probably the best doctor that I have ever seen and he saved my life at least twice so it was a difficult decision.
My wife and I always see the same cardiologist and our GP helped her with a BP problem too.
We have been heart patients long enough to know a little about how things work and know that most of the time when they change BP meds the doctor cares about monitoring the results.
Right now it kind of feels like we are doctoring ourselves.
