Digest Number 874-ED & GAIL
Ok Ed.......you may think I'm the dumbest person in the world BUT I promise I'm not...........BUT that didn't work either.........I know how to copy and paste......I know how to basically delete something......but this trying to delete the posts so that I can reply without sending back everything is really getting to me!!! Perhaps my "pumphead" is working overtime in the stupidity department!!!.......... As for why I'm still with AOL.......hmmm good question......I tried cable broadband and had so many problems with the cable company that it was with that we cancelled. Right now we are looking at signing up with BellSouth that will bundle all the services we want into one package (hopefully at a good price) and we will then switch to them. And yes.......always looking for ways to save money!!!! Back to Q-10......I have read a number of times that the various suppliers of Q-10 can offer varying degrees of Q-10 in each capsules therefore I'm not sure how we will be able to determine which is the best to use. Also in the past I have decided through my own experimenting that I think the liquid soft-gels might be better than the ones I have gotten than have a powdered Q-10 in them.......I only believe this based on how I feel........but again.....I think we are going to have a problem determining which is the best.............if we check out the various web sites put out by the doctors like Dr Whitaker or Dr Sinatra who tout Q-10 as lifesavers then you think you have to buy from them in order to get the "good" stuff......I'm not saying I believe this for a minute.......but then also not sure how we can decide if one is better than another........ GAIL.......I wanted you to know that my useage of Q-10 has been sporadic over the past 10 years. I think I wanted to take it as a preventative to any heart disease but honestly I felt so good before surgery I probably only took it on a "when I thought of it" basis. Since surgery I have been better at taking it but then again it was perhaps only a few times a week. About a year ago I started having shortness of breath....couldn't walk to the corner without having to stop a couple of times to "catch my breath"....forget walking up any hills that was almost impossible. Running the vacumn wore me out totally and the shortness of breath was always with me ...even bending over to pick up something. This is when I went into panic mode....it had been almost 5 years since surgery so yes it was possible I had blockages back.......BUT I was scared to death to face this so I decided I would do something first before caving in and having a bunch of tests. I then proceded to take 150 and sometimes 300 mg of Q-10 every day. Along with this I also started exercising about 3-4 days a week. I go to the Cardiologist every 3-4 months and 6 months ago I was still having shortness of breath.......3 months ago it seemed it was still there but not as bad.........and now I can do most everything without getting totally out of breath.......oh yes. I'll admit to some breathlessness but it is so mild and so infrequent that I don't even think about it. What medicine are you on for your shortness of breath? I"m on monopril (ace inhibitor) HCTZ (diuretic) atenolol (beta blocker) norvasc (calcium channel blocker).........I would say it has probably taken a few months to notice any improvement in the shortness of breath (that is after I stated taking it faithfully)....one might wonder if it was the exercise or the q-10 tht was making it better......hmmmm considering since Xmas I've slacked off the exercising and still notice the improvement I guess I'll have to say it's the Q-10............ Did the doctor give you any idea why the shortness of breath developed?? Did you have it before surgery? I think we are all finding the cost of Co-Q10 really high ........I'm hoping that one of us or perhaps all of us together we may find some good prices....I'm glad the medicine the doctor prescribed is working ........you'll notice than even though I'm taking Co=Q10 that I still have to take all the meds and most likely will the rest of my life...........each one serves a different purpose that I guess my body needs........... Carol in Atlanta
HI Carol, Thanks for the reply. 10 days after surgery (Aug 21/03) I started walking everyday and within 2 weeks of the start date I was walking 45 days everyday with no problems. Exactlt 4 weeks to the date of discharge I got up that morning and overnight had developed the shortness of breath. It was so bad that I couldn't make it from the bed to the bathroom so we went to Emergency. I was diagnosed with severe pericarditis and admitted for 1 week.While in hospital a persantine stress test was done and a CAT scan to check for blooc clots. I was also given a high dosage of prednisone and this antiflammatory callled indemethacin and was kept on oxygen throughout the hospital stay. I was definitely better when discharged but the problem wasn't gone. Within a few days of being home the shortness of breath came back - it was severe and during this time I saw the surgeon who said he had never seen someone like that and I saw the cardiologist who was puzzled but referred me to the lung specialist. She put me back on the indomethacin and within a day or 2 there was such a significant improvement that my family doctor was amazed. Since then the problem has gradually worsened again but it is not as bad as before the indomethacin. I see the lung specialist again on Feb.9/04.Meanwhile I started rehab beginning of Dec. and I do 2 - 30 minute exercise routines plus 30 minutes on the elliptical trainer and 45 minutes walking everyday no matter how I feel. Sometimes this is all I do in a day but my goal is to be well by spring. I just love gardening and this is what helps me make it through the difficult times - knowing that with good health I can work outside again. The thing is I have more than 1 health problem so it is hard to know why I have the shortness of breath. I was just diagnosed with a B12 deficiency - symptoms being shortness of breath and fatigue, I have Type 2 diabetes with neuropathy, High Blood Pressure (just returned, was low after surgery) cholesterol now low but with medication, and rheumatoid arthritis. The medications I take are: metoprolol, enteric coated ASA (325mg),both for the heart, ramipril(2.5mg) for high blood pressure,neurontin, glyburide, metformin, elavil, for diabetes, lipitor(10mg) for cholesterol,celebrex for arthritis and then the indomethacin as mentioned and B12 injections twice a week. I live in Canada so some of these drugs will not be familiar to you. Canada's drug laws are more stringent so we do not have the same availability of drugs here as in the USA and also that makes supplements here a lot more expensive. Otherwise I would try the CoQ10 immediately. Just so you know I am 48 years old, ran my own daycare for 25 years which kept me active and I have 2 children still at home. Gail