A Visit to the Doctor

This morning I paid a visit to my internist, Dr. Charles Ridley III, mostly to get my routine blood work done (the note you see reveals the results). I also had a couple of other matters that I wanted to ask him about: (1) muscle pain; (2) allergies; (3) and "itch" in my ear. For the allergies, he prescribed Zyrtec, an antihistamine; for the "itch" in my ear, he said, "I don't know what that is but don't be concerned about it; just put a bit of cortisone ointment on it, and it should be fine." The "muscle pain" brought about a bit of a different diagnosis. These were his words: you are getting old! Of course, I told him that I knew that, but I also wondered if the problem might be coming from the statin drug I am taking--Crestor. Now, I am not like those folk who read the "possible side effects" sheet of their medicines and immediately begin to have most of them--far from it; however, I do want to be prudent when it comes to matters of my health, so I pressed the issue a bit. He did admit that he took Crestor at one time and had to stop because of muscle pain, which did give a bit a credibility to my supposition.

Now, having said that, take another look at my blood profile: by anyone's standard, with the possible exception of my A1C, the numbers are excellent and I certainly do not want to do anything to jeopardize them. However, after a brief discussion, he suggested that I stop taking Crestor for one month just to see if it is the cause of my "muscle pain" and I agreed to do so. So, for the next 30 days I am on-my-own regarding my lipid profile. Yikes!! I love food, especially good food!

Now I said all of that to say this: if you would like you could begin to place bets on which will prove to be the culprit: my age or the Crestor. All proceeds could go to cleaning the front wall of the church building!

Just thought I would let you know!
Your Pastor