Have You Reevaluated Your Heart Medication Recently?
June 9, 2007 by Kendra James, RN
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
I walked a 5K this morning at Bulle Rock golf course for Women’s Heart Health. That would be the same course that the ladies of the LPGA are playing this week for the McDonalds Championship. Like I said before, it is so cool to have this literally in our backyard.
After the walk they provided a breakfast and health screenings for us, ie. blood pressure, body fat, BMI, and cholesterol. Love having that body fat done, you know? It wasn’t that bad. At least when you know, you can do something about it. We also had a holistic physician as a guest speaker.
Most of what she was referring to didn’t apply to me, but she had some very valid points. Exercise and nutrition are of course the key factors in the prevention of heart disease. She gave the obvious pointers we all know too well. That is not too say that we carry through with them!
But the one topic that she touched on really made me think. “So many of us take blood pressure and cholesterol medication for years and years, but do we stop and evaluate if our situation has changed enough to warrant discontinuing the medications?”
This is something that I don’t touch upon when speaking with patients. Things have to change with our bodies over time, right? Especially if you have made positive lifestyle changes!
You could be taking medications that are not even needed. Could you be doing more harm than good? Have you reevaluated your heart medications recently?
