Posted on 08/12/2017 8:00:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I need only 1 for my boner.
Question Jorge.
Patients get symptoms treated one by one, or disease by disease cumulatively until they’re on 40 meds and a complete zombie, without anybody even recognizing what has happened. Sad.
Then guess what happens when they get an acute sickness on top of all that - they nearly die.
Rx drugs are government approved and doctor recommended!
Opioids cost me my 20 year marriage.
But, who cares about a,’minor statistic’ like me when there is MONEY to be made by Big Pharma?
A lot of doctors only do what the drug reps tell them.
That would be their choice. It’s irrelevant to my point though.
One bourbon, one scotch and one beer.
For those with real skills in pills, only these will do...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPNrTBZTJ5U
I stopped taking over half of the meds I was. 9 different ones now down to 4.
Feel better than I have in years.
Told my Dr., so he had me go a couple more months and then did labs. Only one of them that I had dropped was necessary for me to go back on. Me no want another bout of gout. Once was enough.
Cut my BP med in half, stays 110/70. Very erratic If I take none.
Still take my blood thinners, already had one stroke, don’t want another.
Neuropathy keeps me on gabapentin or I can’t sleep.
Ironically, losing 70 pounds from having an enterovirus a couple years certainly helped my overall health.
I’ve known a couple of vets who almost died from all the meds they were getting from the VA because they were seeing so many different doctors. One was taking 32 different pills, the other over 20.
Both of them were near invalids until someone got them off all of the medication. They had several more happy healthy years before cancer eventually got them.
Have wondered if this is some sort of routine their lawyers tell them to pull, in order to protect them if something bad happens.
In court, they can say "we prescribed medication" as protection.
I was taking a statin and a blood pressure med for years. They are basically free at Costco as generics. Cost is not the issue, the issue is that I no longer be on systemic agents.
So I cut the blood pressure med by 50%. BP stays 125/80 or so.
I completely cut out the statin and yes the LDL cholesterol spiked to 165. However, total cholesterol is only 249 so the total to HDL ratio is 3.5 or an implied less than 50% than average risk of heart attack.
Whether a systemic statin is worse than a moderately elevated LDL is the question.
Decisions.
I had an uncle going to the VA that was on either ~100 medications per day or ~100 pills per day from exactly that. I kept recommending he go see a private doctor (could have through my aunts insurance) but he refused (I earned those VA benefits at Pearl Harbor!) for a long time. My mom finally convinced them and they cut the pills down to a reasonable level.
Most medical care is symptom management. Real healthcare is proper diet and exercise.
56 yo physician, no meds, only vitamins and supplements.
Even on an electronic medical record, few providers will take the time to ask, is all this necessary? Easier to go with the flow than to trim down meds.
Big Pharma or as I like to say the “pharmaceutical industrial complex” obviously rules congress.
Almost $500,000,000,000 per year on pills alone provides them some major money to rent politicians with.
Yep. Quite the racket. They’re all bought and paid for, for sure.
I think statins are a construct of the drug companies based on manipulating data to make them look lifesaving.
If someone’s that 1:100 person whose life it saves, great. Meanwhile, the side effects seem genuinely horrific. If it melts my muscles or causes cancer and I stop it, it’s gonna be too late.
Opiods did not cost your marriage,
addiction cost your marriage.
Some people would walk away from a suitcase of drugs.
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