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You seem to be mistaken in how typical hospital situations work, however, despite what Mr. Trump and Dr. Raoult may say. When you go you are in their hands. They don't like suggestions or your bright ideas, even if they are based in research and hifalutin peer-reviewed studies. I could explain "Dr. Peat is a very intelligent person who has said that losartan and cyproheptadine could be quite helpful in this disease," do you actually think that they're going to care? If he fits the parameters of someone who needs to be ventilated, they will ventilate. They live by blood oxygen saturation levels.
I'm not a fan of the FDA but the doctors in hospital and clinical situations have to abide by their recommendations. Perhaps high blood pressure during this illness could warrant a temporary prescription to losartan, as it happens to be the most widely prescribed drug for hypertension. I think what tends to happen in the long run is that blood pressure actually drops to well below normal which is when they know you're not doing too well. High blood pressure=your body's still fighting to rid itself of toxins. Still dangerous as prolonged HBP can result in stroke, cardiac arrest, etc. Super low pressure=body is shutting down, organs start failing. Since losartan works at the angiotensin receptor level, it's not necessarily going to drop blood pressure like a diuretic would.Who here actually pays attention to what the FDA considers appropriate or safe for someone?
It's like everyone believing the News all of a sudden now.
Thanks SOMO, I tend to agree with you. My kids can't lose their dad. On a good note, the cypro alone actually seemed to have helped. This morning he looked like a zombie, with no color in his face, but he asked me for some soup and toast with butter and the color is back and I can't help but think the cypro is helping him to keep his appetite up. He didn't sleep great last night, but I assume that's also due to the fact that he tends to have apneas that wake him up, and of course those get worse for people when they're sick. I have told him about the apneas and he hasn't sought treatment. He's the kind who won't go to the doctor until he is practically dying.
Or prescribed Tylenol! Hahaha
I think he’s of the school that if it wasn’t prescribed to him by a doctor he isn’t going to take it. I’m sure it wouldn’t hurt him but it doesn’t sound good-“blood pressure medication”- but it is actually an ARB. He doesn’t understand receptors and all that. It’s stuff I’ve been researching on my own for years because of HT receptors and I kind of get how it works, but I think the common man isn’t going to want to think about it like that. Any pill is a risk and many on this forum are willing to take calculated risks, knowing that, for instance, the thyroid is oftentimes ignored unless TSH levels are super high (or low), and even then we are not given proper treatment. I have a prescription for t3 but I know the American stuff is crap. I know if I’m going to take t3 I need to get something from Mexico, specifically grossman’s cytomel. So should I just suffer with American t3 (aka liothyronine) because the pharmacies here don’t carry cytomel? Sorry but no. I’m not sure why the USA has banned the stuff. Many “advanced” countries seem to be against t3 supplementation. Why? What is the real reason? Why do we have to do so much research to have normal health? If I didn’t feel like ***t all the time I wouldn’t have ever bothered to learn all of this. In fact the better I’ve felt the more I’ve put it on the back burner. I even stopped taking cytomel for a time because levothyroxime with plenty of vitamins a and k2 and d3 seemed to be ok. But I notice in the morning I feel hypothyroid and I need to have a small crumb of cytomel to wake up. I already take at least two double shots of espresso. But my husband? Doesn’t need coffee, is probably somewhat low thyroid, but he has pretty good health. Gets great Erections, has a full head of hair including facial hair, gets depressed occasionally but not so much anymore. Deals with a SUPER high stress job which would throw me into a tailspin in days emotions and physically! But he handles it all pretty well. He doesn’t have time or interest in health so I do all of that for myself and I take care of the kiddos. I’ve shunned medications prescribed for doctors for my autistic son. I’m not a medication junky even though it might seem otherwise. I’d rather take nothing. I don’t want to give my husband anything. But if he’s going to be put on a ventilator, yeah I might crush up a losartan and put it in his 7up. And cross my fingers.
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