Comments on: More evidence on CRP http://www.medrants.com/archives/2227 Contemplating medicine and the health care system Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:16:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: John Melchinger http://www.medrants.com/archives/2227/comment-page-1#comment-19380 John Melchinger Sun, 17 Apr 2005 13:27:37 +0000 http://medrants.com/archives/2005/01/06/more-evidence-on-crp/#comment-19380 I recently had a "breakthough" in my medical journey. After severe allergies to certain medications and lactic acidosis from statins and metformin, followed by critical weight gain from Avandia, I began to change medications again because of creatinine elevations. It has been a painful experiment finding a suitable substitute for piroxicam, but the end result is this: Without Tricor and ezetimibe, myalgia has subsided and my labresults for all but HDL and triglycerides have become the best ever in 10 years. My HbA1C has dropped in three months from 7.2 to 5.8. Triglycerides are at 333, but that is only slightly higher than with Tricor. Now, they have just done a test for CRP. Don't know the results yet, but it was described to me as the key indicator now of which direction to take with my meds. After A CABG x4 and carotidarterectomy, mind-foggy from the beta blocker and a new contraindication for meds and certain combinations of meds around every corner, I will be happy to level off and work primarily on cardiac inflammation, if that is what it is. It has been a long haul. Thanks for your plain English explanation of cardiac inflammation and ideas about how to work on it. Are there foods that can cause it, food that can ease it, or other things I can do without extremely costly or caustic medications? /John I recently had a “breakthough” in my medical journey. After severe allergies to certain medications and lactic acidosis from statins and metformin, followed by critical weight gain from Avandia, I began to change medications again because of creatinine elevations. It has been a painful experiment finding a suitable substitute for piroxicam, but the end result is this: Without Tricor and ezetimibe, myalgia has subsided and my labresults for all but HDL and triglycerides have become the best ever in 10 years. My HbA1C has dropped in three months from 7.2 to 5.8. Triglycerides are at 333, but that is only slightly higher than with Tricor.

Now, they have just done a test for CRP. Don’t know the results yet, but it was described to me as the key indicator now of which direction to take with my meds. After A CABG x4 and carotidarterectomy, mind-foggy from the beta blocker and a new contraindication for meds and certain combinations of meds around every corner, I will be happy to level off and work primarily on cardiac inflammation, if that is what it is. It has been a long haul.

Thanks for your plain English explanation of cardiac inflammation and ideas about how to work on it. Are there foods that can cause it, food that can ease it, or other things I can do without extremely costly or caustic medications?

/John

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