Daniel Day Simpson, Edmond (7/17/2009 9:41:23 AM)

Check a university health program for solutions. You may get a procedure done at significant savings if not free. This is something a medical school would love to delve into.

tao4mind, Enid (7/17/2009 11:05:13 PM)

At 78 years old, first thought is a decrease in the production of red blood cells, B12 vitamins. The artical fails to mention race, sickle cell disease, weight, an overactive thyroid gland. Many things can cause rapid pulse and feeling weak and tired. Your a nurse, look for the obvious, is there any yellowish look to your skin and the whites of your eyes, jaundice. Shortness of breath means getting high blood pressure in the lungs. Any pain in the hands, the feet, are not mentioned. Could be an iron deficiency, folic acid deficiency. This losartan you take for high blood presure is an Angiotensin II receptor blocker that inhibit a substance that causes blood vessels to narrow. As a result, blood vessels relax and widen, making it easier for blood to flow through the vessels, which reduces blood pressure. This medicine can increase your risk of life-threatening heart or circulation problems, including heart attack or stroke. This risk will increase the longer you use losartan. I will have to agree with DR. Pete, seek a cardiologist's advice and get off losartan under that doctors care. When a woman gets to age 78 she should have a personal massaging pool boy to rub her neck to relieve an overactive thyroid gland before the visit to the cardiologist.

upinarms, (7/18/2009 6:05:25 PM)

I wonder if the personal massaging pool boy could be justified by other ailments, not just an overactive thyroid gland. Am not 78 yet, and my thyroid is more on the underactive side, and yet...a PMPB sounds very appealing. I wonder would insurance cover that? For men, would a PMPG be the equivalent?

Bedazzled, (7/19/2009 12:07:14 AM)

His doctor should have told him to follow the Cardiologist's instructions. This is something my mother had too and it can be serious.