Okay miss him so i looked at your results and you have heart failure your ekg is willing you have a have an info read them on your heart so i’m gonna prescribe you the dachshund to treat with the heart rate this is why you’ve been feeling tired and weak and i will give you a diuretic for the swelling in your legs johnson’s gonna help but the heart rate is gonna
Try to grab it at a steady rate so just make sure you take it every morning at the same time you can take a with or without food now with jackson though you might don’t kill me you might have headaches you might lose your appetite might be confused at times but those are just regular side-effects of a pain any other questions 41 and so i’m gonna put the orders
In right now but if you can give her the first dose look at the johnson diuretic just this turn her off in the morning didn’t have it scheduled like there and provide her with somewhere education about the drugs to make sure that she knows everything side effects of the johnson i’m gonna be your nurse today how are you feeling a little bit better okay i know
That the doctor just came in and spoke to you briefly about what’s going on with you and putting her on some medication to help you feel better did you talk to you about that okay um he also gave me your first dose of medication to take here in the hospital and then we’re gonna send you home with probably a 30-day supply to get you started at home and just one i
Mentioned to make sure you take it every day the same time every day you can do both so i just wanted to go over a few things just to help you feel a little bit more comfortable about taking your medication once you get home i know things give me whelming and we might forget so just some of the sinus so some of the side effects that you might experience
Once you get home and you’ll start taking more education you might have a slow heart rate you might still feel some weakness dizziness tired headache diarrhea and some truck complications another thing that you want to be aware of is that when you’re taking this medication there’s something that can happen such as attack meaning that you have too much of the
Medication in your system it could go a certain range that you like to stay with it which is usually about 0.5 to 2 nanograms four milliliters for that since that i have also prescribed to a diuretic it could also increase your risk for toxicity meaning it could lower your levels so some of the things that you want to be aware of for that it’s an ancho vomiting
And some vision changes blurry vision yellow or cables so if any of that ever starts to occur make sure that it’s going to be very important for you to keep your appointments these appointments are going to monitor your levels to make sure that your potassium is good to make sure that your digoxin is good and just in case that does happen they’ll take care of
You there’s an antidote sandra worries the name of that antidote is digibind but they’ll get more into that if that he does come up we just want to make sure that you know what to be aware of inc it happens okay all right did you have any questions for me at this time yes because of the diuretic so actually i’ll talk to the doctor about me to clean you on a
Protective barrier diuretic um but in the meantime while you’re taking it out how we increase your potassium rich films which would be potatoes bananas spinach it’s like that’s something that will help you maintain that level all right well i hope you feel better thank you all right thank you
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