12/5 Update on Michael

"Sarah Monroe" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Otherwise, he's OK for now. Several medical people have emailed me that

the

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growth on the adrenal gland is quite dangerous. BP of 235, wow!. My

doctor

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had a fit when mine was at 149, that's why I am now taking BP medication.

I

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hate it too.

Any growth near or on the adrenal gland is very dangerous. With BP, you're worried both about the
upper number, and the lower. 149 isn't so bad, but 235 is. The lower number is generally held to be
a larger concern, however.

I hope he is feeling alright.

Chris

"Sarah Monroe" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

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Otherwise, he's OK for now. Several medical people have emailed me that

the

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growth on the adrenal gland is quite dangerous. BP of 235, wow!. My

doctor

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had a fit when mine was at 149, that's why I am now taking BP medication.

I

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hate it too.

Sarah

What is the treatment for the growth, Sarah?

Dora

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Otherwise, he's OK for now. Several medical people have emailed me that the growth on the adrenal
gland is quite dangerous. BP of 235, wow!. My doctor had a fit when mine was at 149, that's why I
am now taking BP medication. I hate it too.

You know, something just occurred to me. Wasn't Michael's doctor concerned about his blood pressure
months ago, and had put him on a no-salt diet?

And it didn't work.

Now, they discover, only after he nearly dies, that his high bp is due to this growth on the
adrenal gland.

I don't mean to be critical of doctors, but if they know certain conditions can cause bp to spike,
and the usual suspects, diet, exercise, pills don't work--why wouldn't they have tested him for
other causes of the high bp? Wouldn't a Complete Blood Panel have revealed higher levels of
something that might have pointed to this months ago?

Wouldn't it have been nice if someone's diagnostician brain had been thinking outside the box? Would
have saved Michael from all this trauma, and his family from all this stress.

Just a thought.

"Sheryl Rosen" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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in article [email hidden], Sarah Monroe at [email hidden] wrote on
12/5/03 3:15 PM:

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Otherwise, he's OK for now. Several medical people have emailed me that

the

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growth on the adrenal gland is quite dangerous. BP of 235, wow!. My

doctor

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had a fit when mine was at 149, that's why I am now taking BP

medication. I

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hate it too.

You know, something just occurred to me. Wasn't Michael's doctor concerned about his blood
pressure months ago, and had put him on a no-salt diet?

And it didn't work.

Now, they discover, only after he nearly dies, that his high bp is due to this growth on the
adrenal gland.

I don't see where the OP says that the high BP is due to his growth on his adrenal gland. I see two
not necessarily connected sentences.

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I don't mean to be critical of doctors, but if they know certain

conditions

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can cause bp to spike, and the usual suspects, diet, exercise, pills don't work--why wouldn't they
have tested him for other causes of the high bp? Wouldn't a Complete Blood Panel have revealed
higher levels of something that might have pointed to this months ago?

Wouldn't it have been nice if someone's diagnostician brain had been thinking outside the box?
Would have saved Michael from all this trauma,

and

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his family from all this stress.

Just a thought.

I was brought up to believe that armchair doctoring at a time like this is rude. Just me.

Jack Rx

limey said:

Sarah Monroe said:

Otherwise, he's OK for now.

What is the treatment for the growth?

---= BOYCOTT FRENCH--GERMAN (belgium) =--- ---= Move UNITED NATIONS To Paris =--- Sheldon
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"Sarah Monroe" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Otherwise, he's OK for now. Several medical people have emailed me that

the

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growth on the adrenal gland is quite dangerous.

Once discovered, it is usually controlled and removed. I can think of a whole heck of a lot of
things I'd give up in exchange for a pheo. Heck, I'd pick it over diabetes. With a 90% non-malignant
rate, you can face a cure rather than years of diet, pills and fingersticks. I take a pheo over
bipolar, COPD, dementia, ulcerative colitis...the list goes on. Chin up, Micheal. blacksalt

Youz gotta get out more Sheldong.

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limey said:

Sarah Monroe said:

Otherwise, he's OK for now.

What is the treatment for the growth?

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---= BOYCOTT FRENCH--GERMAN (belgium) =--- ---= Move UNITED NATIONS To Paris =--- Sheldon
```````````` "Life would be devoid of all meaning were it without tribulation."

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"Sheryl Rosen" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I don't mean to be critical of doctors, but if they know certain

conditions

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can cause bp to spike, and the usual suspects, diet, exercise, pills don't work--why wouldn't
they have tested him for other causes of the high bp?

The majority of hypertensives, even ones requiring 5 medications to control their BP, just have
plain, old essential hypertension. Once in a blue moon I'll find a renal artery stenosis, but for
the most part workups for secondary hypertension lead no where.

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Wouldn't a Complete Blood Panel have revealed higher levels of something that might have pointed
to this months ago?

No. A 24 hour urine for metanephrines is *not* a routine test. I've ordered dozens (my reputation
for compassion led troops of people with panic attacks to seek my help...BTW, I loved taking care of
people with panic, because I could make most of them much better), when there are other alerting
symptoms, and never found a pheo. The only pheo I ever saw was an uneducated non-English speaker
who'd had "hot flashes" of menopause for 10 years, not ever complaining, who showed up in a surgeons
office for a swollen leg, which turned out to be a pheo impinging on her venous return from the
leg... (this was in a poor island country), and the foolish or desperate surgeon stuck a needle into
a mass in her abdomen, giving her a BP, momentarily, of 300/190. At that point her family pitched
in, bought her a ticket to the US, gave her taxi money to a city hospital and a note, in English,
begging for help and telling the story. She was half-crazed with fear, and punched at least two
hospital workers in the face, but we cured her anyway. Given her extreme uncooperativeness, many of
the tests, like an MRI, were skipped, and a crack surgeon just went in and did his best. It was a
good best, and I learned just how extreme claustraphobia can be. blacksalt