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:
The Food and Drug Administration warned today that people who take the blood thinner clopidogrel (Plavix) should not take the heartburn drugs omeprazole (Prilosec, Prilosec OTC, and generics) and esomeprazole (Nexium) because two new studies confirm that the combination could have dangerous consequences.