This past Wednesday, I met with my GP, followed by a monthly meeting with my Dialysis Team. For the meeting with our GP, I had a specific agenda laid out as I did with the Dialysis Team, and took the lead. In both cases, one of the THREE items on our (I say our, because my wife, as my Caregiver, was very involved in setting up the agenda for the meetings) agenda was to review the top three drugs I was taking with the thought in mind to reduce or do away with them.
The drug handout we authored is embedded below:
I am pleased to report that after some discussion, I am no longer taking Januvia for diabetes with the caveat that we’re going to watch my glucose closely. My dialysis doctor stated that the majority of her insulin-taking patients take no oral diabetic medicine. Disposing of hydro… was straightforward. My GP strongly suggested halving my statin medication, while my dialysis doctor was Ok with dropping it. As a result, I’m now taking 1/2 of what I was before the meeting.
As a result of going into the meeting with a plan and our ducks in a row, we dropped two meds altogether and reduced the third by 50%, intending to drop it entirely in the future if my cholesterol and triglyceride readings do not go bananas. A win for all of us.
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