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Old 6th February 2019, 23:19   #8
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My wife has been taking various statins for 15 years (was on Atorvastatin, currently on Pravastatin) and used to suffer from muscle cramps. She has not suffered since she started taking a 250mg magnesium tablet every night. She gets them from Holland & Barrett but I am sure that Boots etc stock them.
Her uncle has recommended her to take Co-Enzyme Q10 also to increase energy levels - no feedback on this yet.

The suggestions I have read on line, suggest trying other statins to see which do not cause issues. Now I know it is the atorvastatin, I can see what else they can offer me - yes its to help with T2.



The docs supposed to be ringing for some as yet unknown reason, I will discuss alternatives then.


Friday I have to go in hospital, for a camera down the neck (OGD??) at last. It was supposed to have been six weeks after the first time, when I was rush into hospital on B&T's, after a sudden oesophagus bleed and loss of a lot of blood - but the whole thing got mucked up between hospital and GP. The want to do a recheck, to ensure the blood leakage has stopped and if it has, I can stop taking the iron tablets which have been so upsetting my stomach since August.


A week last Friday, it was an ultra sound scan, to check my kidneys, aorta, bladder and prostate. I had to drink a pint and an half and hold on to it. I expected I would be busting, but I wasn't and she said my bladder was near empty I had lost sleep over having to drink that much and hold onto it for a full hour, even a glass of water goes straight through me. She said I was probably dehydrated and had absorbed it all. She said the result letter I would have in seven days, but I'm still waiting for that 12 days later. I will give them a dig, tomorrow as so many things are going wrong and being forgotten.


I've had a couple of serious episodes in the past few months of going light headed, dizzy, hot sweats and very weak, plus a few minor ones. One nurse suggested they sounded like hypo episodes (low sugar) so I got some dextrose tablets to try next time it happened, to confirm it. Then another diabetes specialist said that was unlikely, unless I was on T2 tablets, which I'm not.


I put the first episode down to doxazosin, which I had started on that day and too large an initial dose, but I am on a smaller dose, been on them a while, yet still had a serious episode. Something else to be discussed tomorrow. The poor docs in for a ear bashing tomorrow. I felt absolutely fine, until they began feeding me all of these tablets
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