I hope it works out for you Kas. My wife just found out she has Macular Degeneration, and will be getting shots on a regular basis I guess. I sure hope they work.
Well I guess that I might have Hypertension, .......................... Getting old sucks!
KAS
I'm glad you got help, sure, what has happened is not pleasant, but you're getting treatment and I hope that improves your situation. Be strong.
I read a little bit about it last night, I am not sure I would trust what the doctor would say about nicotine, with everyone demonizing it right now.
I would prefer to see actual studies from good scientists. 
This is the one I was reading last night.Is Everything We Know About Nicotine Wrong?
KAS
Wishing all the best.Ive a friend in FL age 91 years young who was getting regular shots for some time (MD too)¯
She now no longer needs them, happy to say shes doing great! Although I havent read every comment here, one thing I certainly recommend is a second opinion when it comes to Opthamology.Ive simply seen wide range of care. Its just a general rule for some, anything invasive? 2nd opinion.
Cheers & optimism.
My eye specialists are thrilled that I’m vaping rather than smoking. We’ve talked about it at length several times and the surgeon (had to have retinal surgery too) is of the opinion that the nicotine isn’t the problem. There are trials going on right now using stem cell therapy for treatment of occlusion/WMD(wet macular degeneration). Hopefully they’ll come up with something that works sooner rather than later.luckily my Occlusion was in a branch and not the in the main one. The guy was fast it was over before I knew it. I had read about the shots online a couple of days ago. When he said that was what he wanted to do, I just said okay. I hope that I am one of the lucky ones that gets my vision back, but not going to hold my breath. If the letters are large enough I can still read them. But yeah it did scare the He11 out of me, but there really was not a lot of time, from when I said yes, and the time of the shot.
KAS
Edit: I smoked cigs for 4 years then smoked cigars for about 14 years, I switched to vaping on 4/19/2014. I am kind of wondering if it is the Nicotine from smoking or all the other stuff in tobacco that would be the primary cause.
My light-heartened take on nicotine and blood pressure involves the company doctor, the medical assistant who does my spirometrie, and the senior nurse in a team who gave me regular infusions.
A number of years ago I had to have a check-up with the company doctor, I popped in to the smoking room with a coffee and had two stinkies shortly before my appointment. Just as I was finishing there, a collegue came in with another coffee and a problem for me, this meant another two stinkies and a rush to the doctor. When he took my blood pressure, it was through the roof, when I returned to my office a colleague ridiculed me for my two coffees and four smokes immediately before having my BP measured. The following morning my BP was OK.
Fast-forward several years - I'd taken up vaping. I went regularly to a local hospital for infusions always at 8 am and lay on top of a bed for about three hours. There, my BP was taken at the start and end of every session and always perfect or slightly below optimum.
Every six months I went late in the afternoons to have my COPD control. Whilst there, my BP was always a bit on the high side.
I told the 40+ infusion nurse about the difference to which she asked if the spirometrist was attractive and with "yes" as a reply, she assumed, humerously, that that was the reason.
The penny suddenly dropped after coupling memory of the company doctor incident with my obvious nicotine intake difference between the two appointment times. When a doctor popped in for a chat, I asked his opinion on nicotine and blood pressure, he concured with my conclusion and even looked it up in a medical database on a PC in the room for confirmation.
I didn't have the heart to tell the spirometrist what I'd discovered, she would obviously have been deflated to learn that she didn't have the ability to raise a geriatric's blood pressure.
Life's like that sometimes.
A number of years ago I had to have a check-up with the company doctor, I popped in to the smoking room with a coffee and had two stinkies shortly before my appointment. Just as I was finishing there, a collegue came in with another coffee and a problem for me, this meant another two stinkies and a rush to the doctor. When he took my blood pressure, it was through the roof, when I returned to my office a colleague ridiculed me for my two coffees and four smokes immediately before having my BP measured. The following morning my BP was OK.
Fast-forward several years - I'd taken up vaping. I went regularly to a local hospital for infusions always at 8 am and lay on top of a bed for about three hours. There, my BP was taken at the start and end of every session and always perfect or slightly below optimum.
Every six months I went late in the afternoons to have my COPD control. Whilst there, my BP was always a bit on the high side.
I told the 40+ infusion nurse about the difference to which she asked if the spirometrist was attractive and with "yes" as a reply, she assumed, humerously, that that was the reason.
The penny suddenly dropped after coupling memory of the company doctor incident with my obvious nicotine intake difference between the two appointment times. When a doctor popped in for a chat, I asked his opinion on nicotine and blood pressure, he concured with my conclusion and even looked it up in a medical database on a PC in the room for confirmation.
I didn't have the heart to tell the spirometrist what I'd discovered, she would obviously have been deflated to learn that she didn't have the ability to raise a geriatric's blood pressure.
Life's like that sometimes.
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Happy St Patricks Day - vaping the Celtic Knot and drinking Irish Single Malt in Honor of My Irish Poppa.
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Thank you, earworm (didn't even have to listen). Also: for the future, anything by Pink makes me gag and is also an earworm. Also, Gwen Stefani. (Not sure if they are one person or not, LOL)
I could go on, but now I'm confused by the random things and phrases floating through that song now.
I don't endorse "closing time" for bars, even slightly, either. LOL.
Anna
I could go on, but now I'm confused by the random things and phrases floating through that song now.
I don't endorse "closing time" for bars, even slightly, either. LOL.
Anna
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