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What Is The Safest Way To Stop Taking The Calcium Channel Blocker ?

What is the safest way to stop taking the calcium channel blocker, diltiazem 180 mg ER? What is the safest way to stop taking the calcium channel blocker, diltiazem 180 mg ER? For example, is it ok to just stop or take it every other day. I have been on it for 2 years and take it for angina and to increase bloodflow to my heart so the calcium doesnt get into my heart. I do not take it for blood pressure.
Mon, 1 Mar 2010
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if you stop just like that than your heart also will stop just like that, and alternate day, it is not an experiment going on, it is treatment, and treatment needs to be taken as advised, but i did not understand what is that problem which is haunting you to have such profund aversion towards diltiazem 180mg ER, when it is saving your life by preventing angina?
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What Is The Safest Way To Stop Taking The Calcium Channel Blocker ?

if you stop just like that than your heart also will stop just like that, and alternate day, it is not an experiment going on, it is treatment, and treatment needs to be taken as advised, but i did not understand what is that problem which is haunting you to have such profund aversion towards diltiazem 180mg ER, when it is saving your life by preventing angina?