The Neon Nurse's Charting

I am continually re-overcome with awe at the wonder which is The Internet, and the fact that we can hook up to it as easily as our forebears used to whistle for the family dog.

Because my knee has been so much on my mind (insert your own contortionist joke here), I did some Googling to try to get some answers to things I was wondering about. This is where my 'OMG teh Internets is teh seXX0r!' spouting is coming from.

I found a study that indicates that some people taking naproxen found it was causing the Lasix they also took to not work as well. I take it as part of my blood pressure control, and I HAD been thinking I was puffing up more than usual lately. So I started thinking, hmm, maybe going back to good old aspirin for a little while might not be a bad plan.

Then I found some other studies pointing out that although it is also a pain-relieving anti-inflammatory, naproxen does NOT have the same effects as aspirin in regards to avoiding heart problems and/or reducing clotting time.

One of the side problems of having wonky knees with deficient stability control is that all the other muscles have to work double time to keep one upright and lurching more or less in the desired direction most of the time. I hadn't given much worry time to the increase in little charley horses and the formerly familiar feeling of over-use of the calf muscles...until I remembered muscle damage + pain behind the knee(s) + limited mobility = blood clot?

I don't have some of the other telltale signs of a crouching clot waiting to strike, don't worry. But I probably need not say I have switched back to my little white round friends for a while!