"No insurance company coverage for Propranolol! Freedom of religion and racism!"

I take that stuff. My heart beats too rapidly, and I have a-fib. It helps.

I wasn't a racist to begin with. At least, I hope not.

Just kidding

I have the same issues, plus a bad mitral valve. I've been taking digoxin & sotalol for the afib, and that seems to be working OK. In a month or two, I'll have surgery to repair the mitral valve. At that time, they may do an ablation to isolate the pulmonary veins, which should be a permanent fix for the afib.

The a-fib seems to be a result of an overactive thyroid. I had the thyroid destroyed, and I take thyroid replacement drugs.

They have shocked my heart back into normal rhythm, but it does not stay. I just live with it. I understand that many people do.

relates to religions wherein one feels the other is evil and holds bigoted attitudes.

I can hear it now, "I don't want no Propranolol in my blood, give me death, but no Propranolol."

and milk supply to the entire country.

I am kind of a adrenalin junkie, not so much risky behavior anymore but I do get adrenal rushes from situations. I also have a history of anxiety attacks, and I have been diagnosed with PTSD.

When I take propranolol and it really evens out my emotional responces to stimili. My wife loves it when I take it, I'm pretty mello when I do.

but I have gone from being a regular responder/poster on Free Republic to Democratic Underground. I also think that Rachel Maddow is the best commentator on television. I started liking her with her Bush countdown clock. I never liked Bush, but I never realized how truly bad he coiuld be.

I started taking Lisinopril about three years ago. It is also a blood pressure medicine. I have to wonder.

I frankly think the Republican party is barking at the moon crazy. The breaking point for me was the anti-science movement and the craziness to think that tax cuts always generate more revenue. They are like parrots when considering solutions. Also the more defense is always better. Finally the unwilingness to look at other countries and see how they may be doing things better.

I still disagree with many things on this board, but we do have common cause in many areas. I tend to look at things from a freedom of the individual and economic sense. Kind of like a Libertarian who realizes that you are just not going to let people starve in the streets and past actions have set in motion forces that are difficult if not impossible to stop.

I guess my movement to what my father in law calls a Robert Taft republican has come about because of the blood pressure medicine.

Whatever the cause it is a good effect.

Restores my faith in the medical community. Now they just need to disguise it as a moon pie so they can get the dopey bastards to take it.

Rush is probably already on it and this is as unprejudiced as he gets. Without it ...