I restarted blood pressure meds and a nerve blocker for the spine yesterday plus an allergy med. I take the allergy pill at bedtime because it is known to make you sleepy. I can't remember if I took one of those yesterday at 1pm when I turned in to nap but I did take the other meds. It wasn't long and I was sound asleep and slept until about 5:30. Today same thing because I shopped and my knees were killing me by the time 1 rolled around again. My sinuses are pretty dry now and I slept until 6:30 this evening so I definitely see some change in at least being able to sleep. Of course the blood thinner has no role in sleeping so it has to be that allergy pill that helps me to sleep. I will take one when I turn in and hope I don't have a problem sleeping due to the extra hours I am resting during the normal hours. Of course I get nothing done when I go to nap so early but I can't really help it due to just getting so tired I can't hold my head up. I'm not real sure who either the heart doctor I was visiting or the VA but one or the other had one of my prescriptions was for congestive heart failure. I feel like it was the heart doctor because he wasn't a very ethical person what so ever, lied about the 3rd stress test and told me I had a 75 percent blockage in my neck then after allowing them to do the procedure and when they finished they say "well there was no blockage of 75 percent but maybe around 45 percent so we did nothing". Sound like a bunch of BS to me, from that point on I had nor real faith in what ever the guy said. I finally gave him the boot last year. I already had 3 stress test and all of them said I have no problems, this was starting in 2007 until last year when I had the 4th for clearance for hernia surgery. I really think these large centers like this heart institute are just bogus patient farms. Just sucking down that SSI and Medicare money like honey. When a person any person has a Heart Problem he usually knows it long before a Doctor would. Further if you happen to be 74 almost 75 then obviously to say he has degenerative heart failure is probably a cheesy way of saying the guy is old as dirt. All of the males in my family have lived into the late 90s and even past 100 by 4 which my Great Grandfather lived to be 104, he smoked a pipe his entire life drank coffee and probably boozed it bit on the side. He worked as a cowboy in the 1800s and also worked on one of those old large water powered saw mills cutting timber. Not to mention picking cotton , he was tough.
Hope you can get some restful sleep, Thomas. I take an allergy pill at bedtime because they make me sleepy, too. I have really annoying allergies this time of year with all the pollen. I noticed on my last insurance reconciliation that I was charged twice for my last doctor checkup... once for $265 and once for $262. I messaged them to find out why and they said that one of the charges is for the doctor's time and one of them is for the "facility." Whaaaaaa???? So I suppose if the doctor will see me in the parking lot I could save them some money.
My Hernia surgeon would start at about 6am each morning in surgery and have fast meetings with future surgery people in the late afternoon. I don't know how the guy did all that work and not burn out. He did a great repair and did that robotic procedure with about 7 incisions. The first was a VA repair and it was a very simple incision right in my navel, it was fine for about 9 months and it failed. No doubt that mesh problem which was earlier than these TV commercials for hernia patients going back to a later surgery date than I had. The VA probably were doing the early testing of the product, that is the way the government does things. I know my surgeon was not a citizen but an European but like I said he did a good job. I went home the next morning because they had some kind of problem that made my operation about two hours longer than normal. I can tell you the pain was terrible when I would try to bend over and slide into a passenger seat of a low car. In my case it was a nice Cadillac Seville but it sits very low so I had a terrible time trying to get in, I finally just turned around and dropped into the seat. At least the seats would lay all the way back and it was comfortable. The guy who was driving manged to hit every pothole from VA hospital Houston all the way to Spring Branch end of Long Point Dr. I felt great while laying down but boy getting those legs and feet back on the bed was very painful. Yesterday I saw one of most beautiful quotes I have ever read, it was said " We're not dead until our names are no longer spoken " how true.