“Staying away from doctors keeps one healthy, and off of their deadly drugs!”
I sing the same tune. I do go to the VA clinic for regular checkups but only because I may need something other than a prescription and don’t want to drop out of the system. I have had two surgeries in the VA hospital in the past three years and both turned out very well. I also had a colostomy there in 2011, maybe I should call that surgery, they did remove a “precancerous” polyp from my colon. I have to constantly refuse chronic medications though. Now they want to put me on blood pressure medicine simply because at age 73 my systolic reading sometimes goes to 140 or a little higher. I don’t know of one thing that medicine will do except hide symptoms. I have been diabetic for ten years and take no medicine for that and they say that my blood tests show no evidence of any damage to kidneys, liver etc. They try to put me on cholesterol medicine but as far as I am concerned their whole theory is totally discredited in that area. I am not going to take a medicine which has actually been advertised on TV along with an onscreen disclaimer saying there is no evidence that it will reduce your risk of heart attack, stroke or death. What do I care what it does to affect my cholesterol reading if it does NOTHING to protect my health and has a huge list of possible side effects up to and including death?
You sound just like me when I get on my rant about doctors and their propensity to push drugs. 25 years ago my Dr. said my Cholesterol was too high and I needed to take a drug to lower it. I refused and promised him I would exercise and diet so it would go down. After 6 mo. of diet & exercise & a lot weight loss he tested me again.
When he got the results he couldn’t believe that my Cholesterol had gone up. He said the only thing he could think was that it was genetic. He kept insisting that I was going to stroke out. I kept on refusing drugs. The more I read about Statins, the more I was convinced they were not a good thing.
I’ve known a lot of people who took them who went on to become very unhealthy due to liver, kidney and muscle problems. I’m now 83 and healthy. I walked two miles on Mon. and two miles on Tues, and will walk it again tomorrow & Fri.
Now when you read about statins you find that the science is not following what the drs are telling us. But my Dr. still wants me to take them because I’m going to “stroke out”. I laugh at him and tell him that at 83 it’s expected that I might do just that.