Posted on 08/12/2017 8:00:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
WTF Evuh...
You'll have to forgive me, I'm not like the other boys.
;^)
Who cares about a silly thing like "individual responsibility" when there's a boogeyman like Big Pharma to scapegoat instead?
An individual's behavior cost you your 20 year marriage. Alcohol costs untold thousands of people their marriages, their health and their lives every year.
Let's Prohibit it! That'll fix everything.
Look, I don't mean to be callous to your experience. But scapegoating is simply not a valid way to avoid placing responsibility on individuals for their choices.
I'm sure you loved your husband very much. It seems likely to me that you're averse to placing any blame on him, perhaps because of your love for him.
But we don't need a Tyrannical Nanny State.
I'm sorry for your pain. God Bless.
I have for decades told doctors I won’t take prescription meds. But occasionally ask them to review my nutritional supplements.
My big-deal doc in Seattle was respectful, humored me, said his wife took all those things too. She and I are still alive, but he, very sadly, died last year, all too young. Near the end at the NIH, where he was taking experimental meds, he was writing a blog on the health-giving benefits of good nutrition and nutritional supplements, and wishing he’d started before it was too late. Brings tears to my eyes; he was considered the best diagnostician in Seattle.
Now I have an ordinary doctor who reviewed my nutritional supplements six months ago, read off the conditions they improved from some online medical source. So, the medical profession does know the benefits of, and has access to information on natural health. BTW, I run into this doc occasionally at the gym. He’s in fabulous shape. He recommended more water for me while exercising, so now I sip water all day every day with a smidge of electrolytes. Somehow this gives me far more energy.
Since I started exercising 3 - 5x/week, my bp is normal. I was on the lowest dose of hydrochlorothiazide for about a month a few years ago, which brought bp back to normal, now I take one tiny tab every other day. It’s more than enough.
So very many horror stories about pharmaceutical drugs...I wish everyone would wise up about taking control of their health. HealthCare is up to me. What docs and insurance companies do should be renamed SickCare.
I say all this with the knowledge that one day my life may depend on pharmaceutical drugs and doctors and hospitals. But I’m trying my best to postpone that day, and feeling really good in the meantime. Everything works, nothing hurts.
My dad is healthy and 84 years old. Sees his doc a couple times a year and is one no prescription drugs.
TV ads push prescription drugs 24/7. There’s a pill for everything and there’s pills for problems caused by taking pills.
People wonder why we have an opioid epidemic..
statins + diabetes. check it out.
Three problems I see.
One is the advertising on television of prescription meds for people to talk to their doctors about (push their doctors into prescribing)
The second is looking for meds for *stress* when instead people need to learn to deal with stress.
Third, the government keeps changing the criteria for high anything, cholesterol, blood pressure, whatever, and suddenly voila’, thousands more people have it and *need* meds to bring it down.
BINGO! HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD. Started with OA drugs, which ruined GI track, then came GERD med for that, which caused OP, and Barret’s Esophagus, Degenerative spine, which in turn caused pressure on spinal nerves and Peripheral Neuroapthy. OP meds mean ER A-Fib trips.
I now use only bone vits/mins and am reversing the OP. Takes more than D3 and Calcium you are told about. In higher doses.
Diana in Wisconsin
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?
nickcarraway
Rx drugs are government approved and doctor recommended! A lot of doctors only do what the drug reps tell them.
Digger48
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.
One solution would be to have the doctors only prescribe 25% of the pills that the reps tell them to - that way the patient can be seen by the doc and any signs of addiction would hopefully be nipped in the bud. Many people will take all the drugs that the doc prescribed, regardless if they need them or not. We just found a bottle of some opioid, from 2009, that were given to my wife when she got a root canal. There were 30 pills prescribed and still in the bottle, the instructions to take one a day. Really? 30 pills for a f'in root canal - no wonder we are turning into a bunch of pansies. Why not 5? So who made the money on this one - drug makers, insurance and the doc.
I know I am going to get flamed for this one, but you have to admit that databases can be used for the overall good.
Another solution is to implement a database - which all the republicans are steadfastly against - that doctors and pharmacists would be able to cross reference when prescribing drugs for their patients who "drug shop", or that would have 2 different docs prescribing 2 different drugs that would counteract each other or even worse.
Third - always ask questions and ask for a second opinion. For some reason people think that doctors don't like questions, they love educated patients not ones who tell them how to do their jobs. My primary is a D.O., this guy is awesome, he always tries a non-prescription drug first. I only take 3 pills per day - 1 multivitamin and 2 glucosamine for joint pain due to arthritis. A specialist doc wanted me to take name branded drug that cost a few hundred per month.
Having seen many of your posts over a long timespan I've come to have great respect for you.However,I must ask you this:
If your marriage was destroyed by your husband having hit a tree at 70MPH while in a 30MPH zone would that have been the tree's fault,Ford Motor Company's fault,or his fault?
Just askin'
Yes,having worked in health care for 25 years I have a more detailed response...which can wait for now
Well, that’s true. He made his CHOICE to choose drugs over the boys and I.
However, it certainly didn’t HELP matters, any. It could’ve been any, ‘addiction.’
“But we don’t need a Tyrannical Nanny State.”
Agree. 100%.
Oh, I totally get it. But the FACT that those particular drugs have been handed out like candy for any ache or pain, certainly didn’t help matters, any.
I know he’s responsible for the CHOICES he made.
No longer my circus, no longer my monkey. :)
One point about statins that people need to know about:
Statin can lower natural CoQ10 levels in the body. This can be a problem because CoQ10 is essential for energy production and muscle function (this may be why muscular side effects are common). If you must take a statin, please also supplement with CoQ10.
People use opioids all the time without getting divorced.
Yes!!
Yes, I know. You can read some of my other comments to others so I don’t have to repeat myself. Again! :)
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