Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On 28/12/2024 11:17, D wrote:

What are statins? Sometimes I feel very young here. 😉 I remember my old doctor. He operated on a push/pull methodology. If you wanted something, he would not give it to you, if you did not want something, he would push it. The reason I remember it, was that once my mother wanted something, and he tried his best not to give it to her, and then the same week I went there, he tried hard to push the same medication on me. He was fairly grumpy and an extremely heavy smoker.
 

Well I have clooged arteries and have had 5 operatins to fixce them, but they get clogged every year. I couldnt hanlde statins and they said that all that cholestrol or somethinbg was clogging them
Now I have a bloody expensive fortnightly self adminitered injection, which they say has worked.
I haven't needed another angioplasty since taking them.
So what statins do is worth doing. IF you can tolerate the side effects.
Or there are other medications.
Its a question of the least worst remedies. Everything has a side effect. I tried beta blockers but felt like a zombie.

I would prefer to blow my heart out on a steep mountain trail and become
food for the bears to some long drawn out affair where 'medical science'
tries to put off the inevitable.

 

Well I am afraid I am fully on all the medical science can do to not blow my heart out.
Most of what I now take seems to do the job, but the surgery made the most difference, Dyno-rodding the arteries is a brutal but effective method

This is the truth! After seeing my mothers cancer treatment that did not work out in the end, I agree 100%. She went through 3 years of hell for nothing. It did not help of course, that the doctor misdiagnosed her. She was in tears and filed a law suit against herself. I do not blame her, I blame the socialist system she works in, which made her over worked, and therefore more likely to commit mistakes.

Cancer is an utter bitch. I am on my second now, having fully survived the first,  but it is ultimately incurable, just very slow developing, so its likely something else will kill me first.
The problem with some cancers is that by the time they are diagnosable, they are already fatal. A friend died of fully metastasized bowel cancer. The only symptom was that he was tired and a bit gaunt for years and years, Then one day he went into hospital in total body pain and died 3 weeks later.
Another friend was similar.
The cancer was never present in the bowel to any high degree, just mounting back pain and lymph node lumps a few weeks before the end.
Some cancers are easy.. Some are harder and some are impossible.
GPs are not equipped for this. My GP threw me straight at oncology to check out something suspicious. She is rather conscientious.
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     “I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.”
     ― Leo Tolstoy