All Drugs are poison but some will keep you alive. This includes Spironolactone

 Doctors often prescribe Spironolactone to men who have Congestive Heart Failure. Why?

Because it keeps them from drowning in their lungs as it is a type of diuretic. But, it is also a drug that reduces male sexuality and is also given to men who want to have a sex change to become women so it reduces the male sex drive. I just found this sex change part yesterday at my doctor's office.

Spironolactone is often given first because a better choice is Lasix also called Furosemide but here's the problem with Lasix(furosemide) (If you don't take the right amount of potassium with your furosemide you will be dead within 2 weeks.

So, doctors prefer to give their patients Spironolactone because they have less chance of dying because they don't take their potassium. However, spironolactone will go sideways on a male patient within 2 to 5 years of taking it. This happened to me and I started to go into paralysis and realized I couldn't take it anymore. I think this was around 2016 or 2017 when this happened.

But, as a result of stopping taking spironolactone I almost died because I couldn't survive without some type of diuretic. I didn't understand all this at the time and thought my coughing up stuff was just a bad cold. But, instead my family doctor told me I was within a few days of being admitted into a hospital. And at that point they switched me to Lasix (furosemide) and potassium. But, remember if you don't take the right amount of potassium along with your Lasix(furosemide) you are dead within 2 weeks time.

So, this is a tricky business (to say the least) in trying to stay alive with Congestive Heart Failure. However, with the new Miracle Drug (Entresto) and a pacemaker you might very well live into your 90s or 100s if you have Medicare. The problem with Entresto is that if you don't have medicare I think that entresto is 300 to 600 dollars a month to take it because it is a miracle drug.

On TV they show this drug and a man in his kayak with his dog. Another commercial says "Take entresto and stay out of the hospital" Both of these things are feasible even with Congestive Heart Failure with Entresto along with living possibly to your 90s or 100s or beyond that.

So, as long as you have Medicare already, entresto and even a pacemaker is possible. A pacemaker operation without Medicare is around 100,000 dollars or more by the way.

So, being on Medicare at 65 is a life saver for many many people in the U.S. But, the problem becomes how do you survive from age 50 to 65 when at 64 I was paying 1800 a month for full health insurance?

And how many people can afford that? Especially now!

So, if you can survive to 65 and get on Medicare you might live to be 100 if you want to.

By God's Grace