Recent content by slipkid

I have a meter. Bought one last June when I terminated my service through Cardionet/Biotel/Philips/etc. Interestingly I've been stable for about 10 years now after the 1st couple months of needing doseage finetuning. Last time I had to make a change was about 1-2 years ago when I had covid &...

It's funny, that reminds me of my bro-in-law who was on warfarin and was forced to see a Dr regarding his dosage/INR etc when he was more than capable of doing it all himself. Although I don't recall the exact story the visit went something like the Dr advising him to modify his dosage by a...

Think I've always been a "problem patient" even b4 my working in big pharma (because I try to understand what the Drs say and ask intelligent questions which many Drs do not even know the answers to or give wrong ones, and don't like being corrected by their patients at all), but yeah I'd say...

Good point. I suspect not.

Yes, my current waste of space "Dr" (he is a Nurse Practitioner) does not even want to know what my INR results are (he said something like unless my results are way out of range then there is no reason to contact him). I've painfully learned that anything taking 1 minute of his time outside of...

Doesn't surprise me there in the least. I worked in big Pharma for over 20 years. Part of that time I worked in Clinical IT as a programmer involved in creating the various reports for the Phase II Clinical Trial submissions. We spent the most time & effort on "massaging" data to get to the...

I went through hell and back again dealing with these people. Incredibly incompetent and even crooked to make it worse. See some of the other threads for more details of what I posted. You DEFINITELY need to get whatever medical insurance company you had for the time of those bills involved...

I've had that as well. Mentioned it in detail already. Was a complete joke. Results made ZERO sense to the only person who bothered to read the radiologist report (IE: ME - who is not even a medical professional). Radiologist simply copied/pasted some other patient's (or a template) into my...

$90/month is kind of in the ballpark what I experienced compared to the 3 different companies I've had. First was about $118/month (RCS). That was with insurance but think their cost with was same without (?can't remember). Then of course that changed with insurance once my total deductible...

Interesting hearing about the double-vision experiences. What I'm about to say is not heart or stroke related but allows me to identify with the discomfort you folks are mentioning. Double-vision is not fun at all and can be rather frightening! I was just at the eye Dr last week. Had that...

No it isn't!!!! :)

You want to really make your brain hurt pick up the original album of this Python release: That was the album with "three" sides. IIRC Side 1 and Side 2 were both labeled as "Side 2". One of the Side twos actually had two different sets of concentric grooves cut in it, so that different...

Good question. Has been almost 10 years since my operation so am fuzzy on some of the details. Am pretty sure I was talking about this up here back then but can't remember exactly where. I don't want to bum you out but I'm going to say that I think it took me at least a month to get a good...

Yeah I wish I had a recliner when I got out of the hospital. Sleeping in bed was torture. Even with a mountain of pillows all over the place. Was in the process of researching renting a hospital bed when things healed enough to get through things as they were. Looking back though don't even...

I actually didn't watch the vid but your words unlocked the mystery! P.S. My correction above may be wrong though, might have had it right in the first place...