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Last Wednesday I started having trouble with my left eye...just a little distortion after I got home from work. The next day it was much worse and the distortion had turned into little "hairs" I could see but which weren't really there. They turned into tangles of hairs and sort of a spider web...

I've just seen a wire service story (from Bloomberg News) that appears to say Toprol (which I'm taking) and its generic knockoffs significantly raise stroke danger among those who take it. Study was reported in the Lancet. Anybody know anything about this? My cardiologist left it up to me...

Had the cath -- my first -- a week ago. My groin looks like I was on the wrong side of a bus, but the test wasn't that difficult or painful. The bleeding issue was not a problem as I expected. They put in something like a wall anchor you would use in your house (made by St. Jude's, surprisingly)...

Had my annual visit to the cardiologist today, and he said that my gradient -- which apparently measures how stiff my aortic valve is getting -- jumped up from 56 last year to 83 this year on the echo. He says that's fairly serious and as a result he has increased the frequency of my visits. He...

Hi. Thank you for your responses, Kevin 21 and Tobagotwo. I apologize for not responding sooner, but I have a limited amount of private time to do this. And frankly I'm having a little trouble figuring out how to use this site. Thread? Parse links? I appreciate your feedback. I'm 57, have an...