Anee,

    I am so glad to hear you have brought that blood pressure under control. I
have had hypertension all my adult life and it will do scary things to your
system, so keep an eye on it. Glad you are looking after yourself. Says Bobby
who is 4 months overdue for my
semi-annual physical!

Bobby

Anee Stanford wrote:

> Hi Guys-
>
> As many of you know, I have some spine and cervical problems due to
> cp--though they are still in early stages.  Dr. Joseph is doing a pelvic
> x-ray next week to see if maby there are some problems with my hips or
> additional problems in my sacrum (over what was there in January 00 when they
> x-rayed my spine) that could be causing the additional spastistiy.  He has me
> up on 2 mg Koplin bid temporarly.  Good news my blood pressure is down but as
> I pointed out to him and all of you that is one of the side effects of that
> group of drugs (Valium, Koplin etc.)  He has also discontinued the
> hdyroclorothyizide.  Maby going off of the HTZ will reduce the spastisity
> even though in all the litrature I have read on that drug it should not have
> any effect on musscle tone.
>
> Yours,
>
> Anee
> Founder of CPIC
> http://www.geocities.com/aneecp/
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> AOLIM: Anee
>
> In a message dated 11/8/00 4:34:56 AM Mountain Standard Time, [log in to unmask]
> writes:
>
> > So, let's see,
> > me, Carla, Kyle, ken, Mike, Steve, all have serious spine problems b/c of
> > the
> > cp. Anybody else? I'd like to get your ages and list of problems, maybe the
> > data will persuade my doc to give me a mri.
> >
> >