Its medical review time, I am having to take more pills to counteract side effects of themselves and eating oily fish.
The idea is to prolong my life by reducing my blood pressure to a level where my brain starts to malfunction. This could be a problem I share with many other people, but as a patient who knows how to get information on my case, I have found some disturbing evidence.
I share a copy of my medical files, and in the pages that refer to an acute coronary syndrome that occured, during an episode of food poisoning I had in july 2008, worry me a little.
The cardiologist had prescribed an out patient visit in October 2008, that never happened. More mysteriously, there is no record of me having a diagnostic test for heart damage.
According to NICE guidelines on cardiac events, patients are entitled to a left ventricle assesment. Obviously, this information is needed so that doctors can make rational decisions on ongoing care, and I dont seem to have had one?
All other coronary suspects I have spoken to have had enzyme tests, treadmill tests, and an ultrasoung echogram. I appear to be one of the lucky ones that might have been treated so quickly that I never got any symptoms.
It worries that I am being given levels of medication that are disabling, and potentially dangeous, should I fall down etc.
Obvious answer is to get a full record of my cardiac file and ask some questions, surely hospitals should make clinical decisions on evidence, and comply with clinical exellence guidelines.
Has this situation happened with any other political campaigners who like me, are being drugged out of life quality?
The most dangerous aspect of a suspected cardiac event will probably be prescription drug fatality, and superbug devastation, as time goes by?