First - THANK YOU for this information! Saved, printed and trying immediately.

I had massive heart attack in 2013 at 48 and received two stents. Annual checkups, statin sensitive. Old cardiologist understood and monitored.

During covid I had no checkups because I refused to comply with the maskholes.

FF to 2023 cardiologist moved to FL I'm assuming because he could practice real medicine there.

New cardiologist does no testing and wants me to go on a "new and effective" cholesterol reducing med which is EXPENSIVE and not covered by insurance. Researching this new med, the first side effect is elevated blood sugar which, of course, would mean additional medications (kudos to big pharma on that one).

I refused and sought a 2nd opinion. This doctor recommended the same new drug but ordered a stress test. I ended up taking 1 1/2 stress tests because the treadmill quit half of the way through the first one. (The crappy write up said "test ended because patient complained of leg pain and shortness of breath. Who wouldn't be after doing over 12 minutes of a stress test? No mention of first failure in the notes which would explain the previous. I stayed on that treadmill 2 or 3 minutes longer than a healthy person of my age!)

On a funny note, there was a very obese PA overseeing the test. I was running on the center of the treadmill and she literally yelled at me twice to get my belly up to the bar on the front of the treadmill. Running out of breath from the "extended" stress test I said to her "How 'bout you get your fat ass out of the chair and get YOUR belly up to the front of the treadmill". Apparently she didn't care for that response.

So despite having passed the physical part of the stress test, the scans revealed some issues and I ended up getting 10 stents over 3 procedures in a week. I had a disagreement with the dr over statins and right in front of me he complained to the nurse "I don't know why we tell them anything after a procedure, they never remember". All due respect to the doctor but you give a drug that makes you compliant and you can not remember. The meds from the procedure cause a pretty intense depression to say the least.

He insists that I use this new drug again and I tell him no way. He says "you have a genetic condition". I say "Really? Which gene because my cholesterol drops to well within normal ranges when I eat a Paleo diet" and I showed him the proof.

Very sorry for the long response but it's nice to get this off of my chest.

Saved, printed and trying immediately.

I had massive heart attack in 2013 at 48 and received two stents. Annual checkups, statin sensitive. Old cardiologist understood and monitored.

During covid I had no checkups because I refused to comply with the maskholes.

FF to 2023 cardiologist moved to FL I'm assuming because he could practice real medicine there.

New cardiologist does no testing and wants me to go on a "new and effective" cholesterol reducing med which is EXPENSIVE and not covered by insurance. Researching this new med, the first side effect is elevated blood sugar which, of course, would mean additional medications (kudos to big pharma on that one).

I refused and sought a 2nd opinion. This doctor recommended the same new drug but ordered a stress test. I ended up taking 1 1/2 stress tests because the treadmill quit half of the way through the first one. (The crappy write up said "test ended because patient complained of leg pain and shortness of breath. Who wouldn't be after doing over 12 minutes of a stress test? No mention of first failure in the notes which would explain the previous. I stayed on that treadmill 2 or 3 minutes longer than a healthy person of my age!)

On a funny note, there was a very obese PA overseeing the test. I was running on the center of the treadmill and she literally yelled at me twice to get my belly up to the bar on the front of the treadmill. Running out of breath from the "extended" stress test I said to her "How 'bout you get your fat ass out of the chair and get YOUR belly up to the front of the treadmill". Apparently she didn't care for that response.

So despite having passed the physical part of the stress test, the scans revealed some issues and I ended up getting 10 stents over 3 procedures in a week. I had a disagreement with the dr over statins and right in front of me he complained to the nurse "I don't know why we tell them anything after a procedure, they never remember". All due respect to the doctor but you give a drug that makes you compliant and you can not remember. The meds from the procedure cause a pretty intense depression to say the least.

He insists that I use this new drug again and I tell him no way. He says "you have a genetic condition". I say "Really? Which gene because my cholesterol drops to well within normal ranges when I eat a Paleo diet" and I showed him the proof.

Very sorry for the long response but it's nice to get this off of my chest.