Dr. F gave me three choices in dealing with my blood pressure:
1. Quit smoking
2. Aggressively lose weight
3. Medication
She also made it clear that even if I chose #3, I still need to do #1 and #2 and if I chose just #1, I still need to do #2 and vice-versa. So she handed me a prescription to Wellbutrin, told me to not have any nicotine (gum included) after one week from today and sent me on my way. So now I have to go on a diet without the help of my sweet cigarettes and I'm really not sure how one goes about that. I've asked my skinniest friend to help me and she is very excited. Hopefully some of her enthusiasm will rub off on me. I just don't get what's so wrong about enjoying a cigarette, a steak and a beer. People used to eat red meat every night and drink martinis at lunch and smoke at their obstetrician offices and the human race was FINE! What's different?
Tuesday, March 8, 2005
My Doctor Is No Fun
e said @ 4:50 PM
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Well, largely it wasn't actually fine. For one thing it was a lot shorter lived.
But we didn't have problems like seniors not being cared for and Alzheimers and a plethora of other geriatric medical conditions. And we were happy.
Yahooo! I was told the same except for the smoking thing. Stopped that over 20 years ago...decided to substitute high stress job and sleep deprevation!
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