Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and the Corps of Discovery crossed the North American continent from 1804 to 1806, traveling from St. Louis, Missouri to the Pacific coast and back.
Now they want me to undrego a colonoscopy in three weeks to rule out any problems in the large bowel but the problem with this is they have to stop the plavix and aspirin for five days prior to the procedure which I think is taking a risk from all the stuff I have been reading. My questions are:
While some doctors have tried to avoid drug interactions by having patients take Nexium or Prilosec 12 hours before or after taking other drugs, the FDA says this strategy will not avoid interactions between Nexium or Prilosec and Plavix.