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Hi Anee!!
You hang in there. I'm really pullin for ya!!-Gary
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Anee Stanford wrote:
> Hi Everyone-
>
> I have had a really tough month. In fact I just dropped me econ class
> yesterday. I am going to try and make a long story simi-short. They put me
> on Atenolol for my bp like 3 or 4 weeks ago and then I went to being
> extreemly spastic. So tony scraped the atenolol and put me on Zestril along
> with the Hydroclorothyzide that I was already taking but I was so spastic
> that he had to put me on diazapam (Valium), because I was almost tipping my
> wheelchair over sideways. We were going to consult a nurologist about all of
> this but then I had a major anxiety atack about going to a nuro because of
> all the bad experiences I have had in the past with specialists. Infact we
> were having to medicate so much for the anxiety problem that it wiped out the
> spastisty problem so what would be the point of going to a nurologist for
> spastisty if there was no spastisty (this was last week--friday). Anyway
> last tuesday I talked to Billy who is my FP in texas and updated him on the
> situation and he sugested a few meds for the spastisty to discuss with Tony
> which I did this past friday. So Dr. Joseph has now put me on colazapam (not
> shure I spelled that right). The huge spasams are still not compleetly gone
> but they are better then they were. Needless to say my joints are not to
> happy about all the spasticity. Anyway am going back to see Dr. Joseph on the
> 7th of November--or sooner if need be.
>
> Needless to say that is why you have not seen me on the list in ages. I
> think this is getting better. Hay at least we finaly have my blood pressure
> down it was like 120/70 friday-- of course the funny thing about valuium is
> it will also lower blood pressure and I had taken 10mg 2 times a day for 2
> days because of anxiety (in addition to my hypertension meds) before they
> took that reading. So question is is it really down or was it just all that
> valium. Trick or Treet?
>
> Yours,
> Anee
>
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