Hello again,
I know you must be very busy, but if it's at all possible, we would appreciate your opinion on the following.
My husband, John, had his 1st stress test yesterday and was told that he has an 80% blockage in 1 artery. The doctor will be setting up an appointment for a dye test in a couple of weeks, and said that, at that time, the doctor doing it will determine whether a stent or balloon is needed. We, of course, are hoping that neither will be done, especially as we've read that stents now are coated in a drug that emits over time to keep the blockage from recurring and has its own set of complications.
John was also prescribed the following drugs. We are not big fans of modern medicine and avoid pills and prescriptions but we realize that these may be necessary so he got the prescriptions filled.
Amiodipine Besylate 5mg - 1 once a day
Clopidogrel Bisulfate 75mg - 1 once a day
Metoprolol Tartrate 50mg - 1.5 twice a day
Lipitor (don't know the dosage - have heard so much bad about this drug John declined to get the prescription filled)
Will these meds interfere with the Cardio-C? Is there anything you can tell us about these that it would be important for us to know?
We have bought some Co-enzyme Q10 (the ubiquinol type) to accompany the Cardio-C.
Thanks in advance for any help you are able to offer.
D & J.
Johnwen would have a more definitive answer on those particular drugs, and I personally think you are wise to decline the statin cholesterol-lowering drug. We are all being lied to about the value of these and other drugs.
As far as any interference between vitamin C and lysine and heart medications, all I can say that in our now 20-year experience, almost all the patients with advanced heart disease, and who quickly recovered, were taking a myriad of prescription drugs trying to control their condition. The only thing that routinely happened is that these former patients, who had not been taking large doses of vitamin C, got better, quickly.