Thanks for the alert, man. I haven't been diabetic for 3 years and 3 months (since I had the double transplant of a pancreas and a kidney back in 2007), but I have been on Lipitor for several years now.
A yummy daily mix of 4mg Prograf, 1000mg Mycophenalate, 300mg Metoprolol, 325mg Aspirin, 10mg Amlodopine, 10mg Lipitor and 20mg Lasix. Just add milk for a crunchy breakfast treat! ;)
Vision is stable, though the eye doctor wants to do another vitrectomy on the left eye, since there's some traction on that retina due to scar tissue. The eye is fairly useless, though. Previous surgeries and a lens replacement resulted in paralyzing the pupil, so everything is blurry (what little I can see out of it that isn't concealed by scar tissue). She wants to replace the lens on the right eye (due to a cataract there), but I'm kinda holding off on that. If that pupil becomes paralyzed as well, then I'll be technically blind, so that would definitely not be cool with me.
I didn't know Lipitor was beneficial for diabetics' eyes, though. They had me on it for cholesterol (which was 116 in 2008).
--JMH
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