Answers in the post..... In a message dated 3/22/2007 5:45:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
i.e. if you are using a pharmaceutical drug - specifically a calcium channel blocker and ACE inhibitors.. they have a tendency to contraindicate with all sorts of things including vitamins. So if somebody were on those types of drugs and vitamins... it's possible. *****HAH..Finally ...someone who can validate what I too have discovered in the past year. I would copy this out to show my Dr. if I thought it would do any good:( Let me give you an example that I figured out on my own over 10 years ago and partially led me to this list. I am a severe celiac person, (gluten intolerance) and had a full blown bowel obstruction that lasted for almost 18 months - passing somewhat but still alive but could only eat lettuce and some fruit the entire time. I almost died and Emory Hosp in Atlanta basically wanted to cut me from shoulder to groin more than once and I wouldn't let them. Do you know what the culprit was? The calcium channel blocker high blood pressure drug I was on. *****Since last May...I have been on Calcium Channel Blockers...and 3 other types of meds to try and lower my blood pressure. Not one of them lowered the pressure by much but each one gave me additional problems. I had a bad reaction to the last med...I think it was the Calcium Channel Blocker..and the dr. said...stop the med and switch to something else. I had had enough..like yourself..and I stopped and stayed off. While on the meds...I had to stop taking everything but my C's..everything else compounded my problem...racing heart blah blah. I am now taking my vits again and ..while that is not the complete answer to my problems...I feel better than I have in a year. I came off it - on my own; the blockage passed a few weeks later and NOW the fennel seed and marshmallow root would finally work. ..key words " blocker" "channel blocker". Oh and while we are on the subject of blockages and celiac - I have found that MSG basically embalms me and blocks me for weeks. I counteract it with goats milk and loads of cal-mag blends. So until this day, now if a doctor tries to give me something, I have to do hours of research to see if it will contrandicate with my celiac and anything else I might be taking - if it does, the doctor gets the prescription in my file 13... *****Ditto that...thats why Googel is such a wonderful thing:) and also get lots and lots of info right here...just as I have from your post today. Thanks V. You almost have to be a layperson chemist to survive these days. My two cents (the only thing the guvment hasn't taken) -- In His Service Daily, Jeannine the Baroness ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com.
