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To: one_less who wrote (166885)	7/22/2005 3:14:31 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

LOL!! I stopped taking the drugs I was prescribed after my heart issues for the same reason.....the drugs so lowered the quality of life....I'd rather have died. So far, going on two years with no problems....I sometimes think using the "miracle" drugs just trades one set of issues for another set of equally bad ones....

To: one_less who wrote (166885)	7/22/2005 3:21:01 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 281500

But, they mean well. Really. One thing some tend to forget, especially younger ones who haven't had 20 year relationships with patients, is that they are taught the "70 kg person", the average, or average range, for various parameters. But individuals have their own norms, which may even be 2 or 3 standard deviations off the average. Bring them back to the textbook values and they are in trouble. (When I was in college, the world's best distance runner was an Aussie named Ron Clarke. If he was seen by a doc in the ER, with his resting heart rate of 32, there would be mass panic and yells for pacemakers)