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by kohlrabicroce » Fri Aug 31, 2012 11:41 pm
Hi Johnwen,
yes, please do get on your soap box, I want to hear it.
he's 61, 5 foot 9 inches tall, fairly muscular, at least before
he lost 30 pounds.
He had a mild ischemic stroke, a right frontal infarct.
It took him the whole 3 weeks in the hospital to be able
to walk again. Now he is walking over a mile a day,
so he's done really great with the physical therapy.
He hasn't had much appetite this whole summer,
so it's possible the drugs just affected his appetite,
and he lost the weight because of that. Now he weighs
148 pounds. He used to weigh about 180 pounds.
He was not out of shape before - he walked every
day, but now he has to be a lot more focused on the
exercise and is doing great with that.
His mental acuity is still not what it used to be,
but it's better. I have no way to know how much
is because of the drugs, and how much because
of the stroke.
I understand that the procardia dose is probably the maximum
they would give to anybody, and the lisinopril is pretty high
too.
He's got a problem with mucous buildup too, and just today
I figured out it's probably the lisinopril. He's taking turmeric
to help with that.
Let me also tell what other supplements he's taking specifically
for his cardiovascular health:
vitamin e mixed tocopherols 400 IU
tocotrienols 100 mg
pantethine - 1200 mg per day
artichoke extract - 900 mg
coq10 100 mg
ubiquinol 50 mg
grapeseed 380 mg
and just recently, 600 mg a day of benfotiamine.
I can't get him to take more than 3 grams of C yet, so
I'm doing what I can with supplements he's more open
minded about.
Thanks for any advice you can give!