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
>