Consider the following scenarios:
LW is a 32 year old female patient who comes to your medical clinic for primary care. She has been on hormonal contraceptives for years, although she’s just been married and has stopped her pills in hopes of becoming pregnant. Her PMHx includes obesity, HTN (diagnosed 3 years ago), familial hypercholesterolemia, and pre-diabetes. Her current medications are as follows: Metformin 1000 mg PO twice daily, Lisinopril 10 mg PO daily, rosuvastatin 5 mg PO daily, and a multivitamin.
GD is an 82-year-old patient is taking 2 mg of terazosin for BPH who comes in complaining of dizziness, generalized muscle weakness and persistent LUTS. He also inquires if the terazosin will prevent “his prostate from getting any bigger and the disease from progressing”.
How should you advise these patients and manage their medications? What was the process you went through to assess her current medications and to recommend an updat .p-a Get Help regimen?