What is Coronary Heart Disease

Coronary heart disease (CHD), also called coronary artery disease (CAD) and atherosclerotic heart disease, is the end result of the accumulation of atheromatous plaques within the ...

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AHA!! Need a Dr.'s suggestion
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Call this maybe a lightbulb moment....I see 2 Dr's here....as I note this with complete glee!

so you two.....please help me find something here before I scratch myself to pieces....lol!


Back in April I had an 'angiogram' and seeing transportation is not to easy getting places for me....they searched out a Dr who could squeeze me into his schedule for surgery....thus i had surgery, valve replacement...on 4/3/08....at Milwaukee St Lukes...

It's the stiches driving me batty.....I guess they used an adhesive or something to close me up..as they were not the conventional stitches I was expecting....thus nothing to remove....but after all this time it STILL itches...anything inc cortisone has been tried, even vinegar, bactine, any anti itch creams I could find...

please help before I scratch me open again...any ideas here please?? I mentioned this to my Dr and all he came up with was prescription strength cortisone which walmart conveniently did not have on hand..but said the OTC cortizone is same stuff..well that did not help and is 2 months later...:((((((

Thank you for any help here.....


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Reply #1 - 10/29/08  2:16am
" Just because they there was nothing to remove sternally doesn't mean you are not experiencing a metal allergy. If you have metal in you from any surgery. weather it's pins, screws, teeth, hips , knees, heart valves. If you are allergic to the metal then you will have itching 247 till it's removed or you decrease your toxicity.
Google "Heavy metal toxicity"

Here are few links to get you started.

www.fda.gov/cdrh/medicaldevicesafe...

www.MELISA.org
www.HBOTreatment.com
www.noamalgam.com
www.totaljoints.info/metal_allergy... "
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Reply #2 - 10/29/08  2:16am
" Just because they there was nothing to remove sternally doesn't mean you are not experiencing a metal allergy. If you have metal in you from any surgery. weather it's pins, screws, teeth, hips , knees, heart valves. If you are allergic to the metal then you will have itching 247 till it's removed or you decrease your toxicity.
Google "Heavy metal toxicity"

Here are few links to get you started.

www.fda.gov/cdrh/medicaldevicesafe...

www.MELISA.org
www.HBOTreatment.com
www.noamalgam.com
www.totaljoints.info/metal_allergy... "
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