Hi everyone,
Has been a while since I have been to the site, I took a break and gathered my thoughts and questions, had my visit with the new cardiologist out of Washington University, In Missouri.
My new doctor, Dr. Mankowitz was wonderful, He says he has met you Lisa S. and highly recommends this site and organization,
He didn't tell me too many new things, since I had an echo recently during a hospital stay with phenomena due to chicken pox, he didn't have another one done, he seemed to be taking me in, learning about me, and personality, he said that I do have obstructive HCM, and didn't recommend any surgeries, he feels more harm can be done sometimes by surgeries, if I am ok, then leave it alone, and I am doing alright, I have stopped drinking alcohol, though I will be turning 30 next week and am thinking about a couple of glasses of wine with dinner to celebrate, if I promise myself to drown my insides with water that day
I am going to work on not smoking, which is only 2 a day, so that is not such a big issue for me, I need to work on not eating sugar more than the smoking as far as I am concerned,
so he says, take it easy no exerting myself, take a walk, leave exercising to just that, a walk, if fatigued take a nap, lessen stress.
My son needs to be checked every five years. He increased my medicine of lopressor, actually metoperolol to 50mg 2x's daily from 25mg 2x's daily, though I had been doing this on my own, when needed, he says to continue to do that, just keep it in my system and not to go over the 50 without him, antibiotics before work on mouth, bladder, or bowl.
I still have many questions though about hormones, I think it is my biggest issue, What do you guys feel about this, what studies have been done. I have more breathing issues with hormones, as well as moods, fatigue, migraines.....
Any advice, help, answers in this area.
SO it went well, I go back in April to see him again.
Lisa R.

Has been a while since I have been to the site, I took a break and gathered my thoughts and questions, had my visit with the new cardiologist out of Washington University, In Missouri.
My new doctor, Dr. Mankowitz was wonderful, He says he has met you Lisa S. and highly recommends this site and organization,
He didn't tell me too many new things, since I had an echo recently during a hospital stay with phenomena due to chicken pox, he didn't have another one done, he seemed to be taking me in, learning about me, and personality, he said that I do have obstructive HCM, and didn't recommend any surgeries, he feels more harm can be done sometimes by surgeries, if I am ok, then leave it alone, and I am doing alright, I have stopped drinking alcohol, though I will be turning 30 next week and am thinking about a couple of glasses of wine with dinner to celebrate, if I promise myself to drown my insides with water that day

I am going to work on not smoking, which is only 2 a day, so that is not such a big issue for me, I need to work on not eating sugar more than the smoking as far as I am concerned,
so he says, take it easy no exerting myself, take a walk, leave exercising to just that, a walk, if fatigued take a nap, lessen stress.
My son needs to be checked every five years. He increased my medicine of lopressor, actually metoperolol to 50mg 2x's daily from 25mg 2x's daily, though I had been doing this on my own, when needed, he says to continue to do that, just keep it in my system and not to go over the 50 without him, antibiotics before work on mouth, bladder, or bowl.
I still have many questions though about hormones, I think it is my biggest issue, What do you guys feel about this, what studies have been done. I have more breathing issues with hormones, as well as moods, fatigue, migraines.....
Any advice, help, answers in this area.
SO it went well, I go back in April to see him again.
Lisa R.

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