This is a sore subject for me right now. Got my blood work for my annual check up back on Monday. It was the you just turned 65 so we have to check all the things blood work. I've had high triglycerides for about 4 years now so have been taking a pretty high dose of statins. They called me and the Doc was prescribing fibrates as well because they weren't going down. My B12 was also down so now I have to take B12 every day. I've been taking hormones for 30 years and take OTC Nexium, which I'm slowly weening myself off of. And they are "monitoring" my thyroid. WTH? On paper they were so pleased with me, weight right in the middle of what it should be, blood pressure low, heart rate low. Work out 5 days a week usually, don't eat fried food and very little beef, no skin on my chicken, don't use sugar in anything, buy 2% milk and low fat cottage cheese. Then that darn blood work came back. My Mama died from Lupus and the last 10 or 15 years of her life she took a whole handful of pills, I swore I'd never be like that, yet here I am. Oh, and the young nurse had the nerve to say to me we have to do a lot of tests on the elderly. Say what? So now I'm elderly?
Sorry to vent. So now, 3 prescription pills, 2 vitamins (calcium and B12) and one OTC for now.
