TACROLIMUS

5 days after returning to Alabama… I visited Doctor Dishuck once more! He walked in with a confused look on his face. I told him all about our visit to Mayo… Why we went to Mayo and also why Dr. Bonner didn’t work for me. He asked for the records of my visit and what I wanted to do next. Wasn’t that his decision? I definitely didn’t go to school to be a doctor. I told him how I was ready to do something drastic… I could live this way anymore. He said when do you need to start back school? I responded by saying in the fall. His answer was OKAY! And he leaves the room. Dr. Dishuck came back in to give me what he suggested was the best option.

TACROLIMUS- http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/733090 here is an article like the one he handed me. The other thing was I needed to have an EKG and extensive blood work to make sure I could even start the medicine. My heart and blood work had to be at a good level. I headed home to my primary care physician to have all this done…

They hooked me up to the machine and it was done. Now just time to wait for it to be read… a week went by with no news! Knowing the ladies at the office I gave them a call, for them to only ignore my calls for days. I thought it was time to call in the big guns… MOM!!!! She gave them a call and figured out… They lost my chart, sent my EKG to the wrong doctor and had no idea what to do next. I love those ladies very much but this couldn’t happen right now I needed it to start my medicine. Almost 3 weeks went by before we heard any news… It would have been 2 but Tuscaloosa was hit HARD by a tornado, the place was destroyed. I heard back from the doctor when they regained power.  By now they had received my EKG and blood work and it was time to start TACROLIMUS> a little about the drug! http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0000103/

This is enough to scare you to death, which is the way my family felt. But, if it helped I was willing to try anything!!!!!

Doctor Dishuck let me know very quickly starting this medicine meant I would have to drive to Tuscaloosa once a week every week to get blood work and an EKG and to also check my blood pressure. These were all things that if there were a change I would have to stop the medicine immediately. So… Every Monday I made the drive to Tuscaloosa. 

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