Hi. I no longer take metformin thankfully. My sugar meter goes from 98-112. Great numbers.
I take metropolol also for my blood pressure. I have a mechanical aortic heart valve and need to be on Coumadin forever . I also take 80 mg of baby aspirin once a day.

Coumadin is a blood thinner, because of the valve. If my blood gets too thin, I could easily bleed out, including in my brain. It’s usually fatal. If my blood gets too thick, I can have a stroke or heart attack.

Witch may not be fatal but having a heart attack or a stroke is not what I would want. Blood is drawn once a week at home to monitor my blood and the results go to my lab portal on my iPhone and my cardiologist.

He figures out what dose of Coumadin I should take that week. He faxes me and digitally writes a prescription based on my levels to the pharmacy and I get it by home delivery around 7:00 pm.

Something else: I have an aortic aneurysm like you in my lower abdominal area.
Last year it was at 3 cm. This year’s CT scan shows a 4 cm aneurysm. 5 cm is the magic number where one becomes eligible for surgery.

This is if it’s just an intact aneurysm. My aneurysm has a tear in it which concerns me. I was in a hospital ER for something unrelated and of course they did a CT scan and found the aneurysm and the doctor comes to my bed and says “we are going to have to send you to a trauma hospital for emergency surgery. Ok I said. And they wisked me off in an EMS rescue ambulance.

A hospital on wheels I call it. At the trauma hospital, the cardiovascular surgeon says that I do indeed have an aortic aneurysm with a tear in it. “ but, it’s not bleeding at this point so the team feels that you are stable enough to be discharged but you will have to return to the hospital but you don’t need emergency surgery right away.
“ see your cardiovascular surgeon ASAP” (I actually have one).

My surgeon was annoyed because he had patients appointments to take care of and he said that he didn’t see anything and “see you next year” and rushed out of the exam room. I said that I’m only following the trauma hospital’s instructions and he said “ oh they always say ASAP “

He poo-pooed the whole thing. 2 surgeons seen it and he didn’t? Hmmm.
So on his way out I asked him if it could burst and he said it could. Another possibly fatal event. Anyway, I think I need a second opinion. Sorry for the long post but once you got me started, I couldn’t stop.