Display: Activity · Questions (2) · Answers (30) · Favorites (0)
View: Latest Questions · Latest Unanswered · Latest Answers
Answers/Comments written by Chyk41
Show: All · Answers · Comments · Helpful
What is metoprolol succinate & its effect on body and mechanism?
Question posted by chandrapr... on 15 Apr 2012 • 1 answer
Related support groups: metoprolol, heart attack, myocardial infarction, heart failure, congestive heart failure, high blood pressure, ...
Chyk41's answer: Metoprolol succinate is a beta blocker, it is to lower your blood pressure it works by making the blood swirl and not hit the blood vessels directly.
Can coumadin cause vascular dementia?
Question posted by Tracey Fr... on 11 Apr 2012 • 2 answers
Related support groups: coumadin, dementia, arteriosclerotic dementia, congestive heart failure
Chyk41's answer: Coumadin is a blood thinner and would not be the cause of vascular dementia. If anything it would help slow the progress.
Plavix and stents - what is the current thinking on how long I should take Plavix for?
Question posted by oldmil on 12 Mar 2012 • 1 answer
Related support groups: plavix
Chyk41's answer: I feel that your cardiologist is the best judge in this matter because he knows just where the stents are the what the possible out come will be for stopping. There is a big debate as to if the plavix will work beyond a year. I was told not to stop ...
Plavix - I have a bad toothache I do not know if a dentist willix take ot out, because of Plav?
Question posted by aguila on 10 Feb 2012 • 1 answer
Related support groups: plavix, toothache
Chyk41's answer: You shouldn't have a problem having a tooth pulled with plavix, the dentist may wish you to come off it for a week before pulling the teeth or he may check with your cardiologist to find out if it is safe to remove it while you are taking the plavix.
Can you gain weight after stopping Plavix?
Question posted by suesq1 on 7 Feb 2012 • 1 answer
Related support groups: plavix, weight, weight gain
Chyk41's answer: Hi Sue, Plavix doesn't cause weight gain, what you maybe suffering from is edema, are you taking any diuretic's. You may need to have your doctor increase to dose.
I have been wondering about asking my pain doctor to prescribe an anti-depressant to help with pain?
Question posted by DzooBaby on 3 Mar 2011 • 25 answers
Related support groups: cymbalta, lyrica, pain, gabapentin, edema, side effect, anxiety, back pain, depression, fibromyalgia, peripheral neuropathy, ...
Chyk41's response: I was given Lorazepam generic for Ativan. It is a sedative and a strong one, was given it following a heart attack and my husband dying shortly afterwards. Because I couldn't take over the counter medications for a headache was given them to ease ...
Is it possible to switch from Plavix to Effient ?? how it can be done? please advise?
Question posted by Dr.Mohamm... on 20 Oct 2011 • 1 answer
Related support groups: plavix, effient, medication, acute coronary syndrome, heart attack, myocardial infarction, ischemic stroke, ...
Chyk41's answer: It is possible to switch but you will need to talk it over with your cardiologist because Effient is a prescription medication and your doctor is the only one who can say how you are to use it and what is the proper dosage.But it may not be in your ...
My doctor said because I had a medicated stent I would be on plavix the rest of my life?
Question posted by goshbad on 24 Jul 2011 • 1 answer
Related support groups: plavix, doctor
Chyk41's response: Medicated stents are smaller them your bare metal stents are are placed in narrow arteries. In order to keep them open doctors' put you on plavix for life. I have only one stent and it is a DES and it is at the base of my LAD, if it closes I will be ...
How long do you have to be off fragmin to start plavix?
Question posted by kelbroc on 24 Jan 2012 • 1 answer
Related support groups: fragmin, plavix
Chyk41's answer: Both are anticoagulant (blood thinner), If you stop one today you will start the other tomorrow. Just my sure that you don't take them the same day.
What would be the side effects, besides the obvious, if I stop taking Plavix?
Question posted by dyrhovd1929 on 14 Jan 2012 • 1 answer
Related support groups: plavix, side effect
Chyk41's answer: Your blood will thicken and you will develop the ability for your blood to clot. If there is a stent or any other narrow area in your heart or leading to the brain you can have a heart attack or stroke or both.