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Along the drug conversation @marybird and @dalewhit I looked up sildenafil and found two inexpensive generic options at https://www.costplusdrugs.com/ . Have you ever ordered from them?

Marybird, I imagine it will be a relief to get a follow-up echo in a couple of weeks. I hope you report back. Did you doctor say if “furosemide success” would be improvement or trying to keep it from getting worse?

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That's Mark Cuban's pharmacy site, I see. I have never used them, no need to as I have an excellent prescription drug plan and the copays are generally less than I'd pay anywhere else.

You know, I never thought to ask and they didn't tell me whether or not lowering of the observed pulmonary artery pressure with furosemide would be an improvement or just a maintenance of the status quo or slowing of an inevitable progression. I must admit I've just been taking the furosemide, trying to watch my diet and exercise, and avoiding the topic other than that, mostly from denial, I guess.

I keep thinking I can't really have this as any mild symptoms I may have occasionally might have other causes as well. I also have A-fib and the side effects of the metoprolol I take for rate control might also cause some of those symptoms. I'm thinking the cardiologist's approach to this will most likely be conservative, as long as I'm mostly asymptomatic, and that would be my preference. We'll see what the upcoming echo shows, and I'll report back when I get those results, either jumping for joy as the arterial pressure has dropped, or crying because it hasn't and we have to go from there.