More Pills - Just What He Wants!!

Kevin has started back on blood pressure/heart rate medicine. As you may recall, he was on a LARGE dose (freaked out the pharmacist) before, and his blood pressure was quite low. Then, when we asked his nephrologist about it, he just took him off the Rx instead of reducing the dosage.

Kevin still has quite high blood pressure and heart rate. Dr Choi suggested we go to our Primary Care Dr to take care of it. So Kevin has that appt yesterday and his numbers were: bp 125/95 and hr: 120. Very typical of him. And very high. So he'll be on that for a while. Side effects - dizziness, fatigue, nausea.

I also got Kevin some probiotics. Dr Choi suggested Kevin start eating a yogurt every day, which he has been doing, and the Primary Care Dr mentioned what a tough combination of antibiotics he is on. So we added the probiotics, with the yogurt and probitoics taken two hours apart from the antibiotics. I'm threatening to get Kevin an hourly pill box.