And when you quit taking some med, you start getting letters and phone calls.
I am a physical therapist therapist visiting elderly patients in their homes and assisted living I attest to the fact that pharmaceutical companies are doing more damage than good
If you want to retain your 2A rights, stay the Hell out of the doctor’s office. I self-medicate with Coffee, Whiskey, and Lucky Strikes... so far I am in the prime of health.
Here’s a clue: If the drug has a warning like “swelling of the tongue and throat” .. this would not be a good med to take. I have been at the every edge of this occurrence, and I can tell you it’s very, very scary.
If you can’t take statins, check out a supplement called, “Citrus Bergamot”. It’s made from a plant which grows in the southern part of Italy. It is regularly stocked at most drug stores - just call around and you’ll find it.
It costs less than $40/mo - you take one capsule per day.
My cholesterol DROPPED 86 points after I had taken this supplement for 120 days (supervised by my doctor). He did not recommend the supplement; but he was willing to run the test to see if it would help me. I also got an increase of my good cholesterol of 8 points; I was already at 58.
This has totally changed my physical well being, and because of the new supplement, I have lost 3.5 pounds in the last 5 months, without having to make any great changes in my diet.
“Should You Take the Recommended Meds?”
Only after researching the meds, reading very carefully the cautions, warnings and side-effects.
I start the meds and watch very closely how my body responds. If there are negative-effects then I stop taking the medication immediately.
I have refused taking some meds recommended by a doctor and have fired more doctors at which can shake a stick for the reasons above.
Never, and I repeat, NEVER trust a doctor simply because he is a ‘doctor’. There are many quacks who should be in some other business other than the medical profession.
There are many others who are simply ‘milking’ Medicare/Medicaid.
I am not too crazy about that.
The government can just keep out of the market place thank you very much.
For one thing why does the government know how much the drug companies are spending on individual doctors? Why is it the government's business?
I have decided NOT to take statins.
Out where I live in NW Iowa, in many of our small towns, where there used to be one pharmacy, with one pharmacist filling a handful of prescriptions every day, there are now three or four pharmacies with large staffs working as fast as they can to fill a flood of prescriptions.
It’s criminal, IMO.
I take blood pressure medicine. It gives me BP of 120/75 instead of 155/110. If I stop taking it, my BP goes back up. Been taking it for 8 years without any side effects I’ve noticed.
My wife was prescribed statins. Lots of side effects, so she finally told the doctor to blow it out his butt. She feels much better now.
Switched to eating high fat/protein & low carbs. Lost 30 lbs. The doctor frowned when he heard my eating habits. Then the blood work came back...and he told me to keep it up, since it obviously was working for me.
Here’s a suggestion for everyone: Stop stuffing your face, smoking/drinking, being obese, and get some exercise, you will be the picture of health.
Naaah. That is far, far, too commonsense. Much easier to mistreat your body, then go to a doctor when you aren’t feeling well, and then ignoring all the recommendations.
It is far, FAR easier to stuff your face, be obese, not exercise, drink/smoke to excess, and blame it all on unnecessary medications prescribed by greedy, evil and incompetent doctors.
Take their meds, and wait for the lawsuit commercials if ya live long enough.
There are several major drug companies. Each of these companies hires a lobbyist dedicated to each US rep and Senator. This means that each drug company has 535 lobbyists for the Congress alone.
Then there’s the revolving door where FDA bureaucrats get great jobs with Big Pharma after protecting Pharma from the public. One has to be a special kind of stupid to not see where this is heading. The latest is new rules that allow the marketing of drugs without having to bother with anything so trivial as actually testing them.
The corruption of the Federal Govt is endemic. FDA, USDA, Interior, HEW.... you name it. Each agency is beholden to private interests as these agencies’ bureaucrats chase that retirement pot of gold. There’s no longer even the pretense that the govt is anything more than an arm of special interests.
It's about treating the symptoms whether or not it medication kill you slowly...
Was told by first doctor that a statin was absolutely necessary with BP
meds. Was also prescribed antidepressants because I was sleeping 16 hours a day; physical lethargy was misdiagnosed as a mental condition!
I discontinued the antidepressant, which had only made me more exhausted. Felt a little better, not much.
Then I changed doctor. She ordered tests, discovered severe Vitamin D deficiency. Doc told me to add Vitamin D and magnesium to BP and statin.
Still exhausted.
I started reading up on statins. Learned statins cause bone deterioration and premature aging. No wonder I felt old.
I stopped taking the statin, switched to OTC red rice yeast.
Didn’t ask permission. Told doc after the fact.
Doc says, no problem. Red rice yeast is the natural form of statin. I’m like, ok, why didn’t you tell me that years ago?
Now taking BP med, vitamin D, magnesium, red rice yeast in capsules.
I’ve also reduced carbs, eliminated white potatoes and white rice altogether. For rice dishes, I use red rice.
Feel 20 years younger.
Study the meds first, study your diagnosis, look at natural alternatives. Only after that should you ever take the med.
My cousin just died from his medications, he was young and vibrant and had a great life. He was in his 50s. He was like a lot of you, thinking that a visit to the doctor positively correlated with health and long life. It’s not true.
Doctors do not have to know ANYTHING about nutrition, gut bacteria, vitamins, nutrients. They only know one path: symptom : pharmaceutical medication. This is not a path to health. It’s just one way to stop symptoms. All pharma meds are not bad. BUT IT’S A DUMB PARADIGM FOR EVERYTHING. And it kills and shortens life as much as it helps.
My cousin went to his doctor and didn’t do a second of thinking about it. He was a financial professional and his clients didn’t have to worry about his expertise, so why should he worry about his doctor? They gave him a new blood pressure medication (which doesn’t deal with whatever was causing his blood pressure to be a little elevated) and combined it with a diuretic, which is supposed to help the medicine be “more effective,” just meaning it would bring down his BP even more on a test. No thought to how these meds could affect his life.
My cousin was also taking daily small dose aspirin (sometimes called baby aspirin) because it was supposed to be so good for the heart, on the advice of the same doctor. My cousin didn’t look up the drugs, he just took them.
This summer, on vacation, healthy and having fun, he was complaining that he felt light headed upon getting up, a classic too low blood pressure symptom. He also complained that the diuretic was making him wake many times in the night to visit the bathroom. He kept taking his meds because, after all, a medical “expert” told him to.
One night he got up after midnight and his wife heard his head hit the floor of the vacation condo they were in. He had called straight backward and hit the back of his head. He was knocked out for 15 minutes, only waking when the paramedics arrived. He insisted he was fine, but they said they had to take him in.
Once in the hospital they found a massive brain bleed at the site of impact, and they couldn’t stop it because of the daily baby aspirin. They frantically were trying “antidotes” to the aspirin save his life. In the end, after telling the family it was inoperable, they operated anyway three times but couldn’t save him. He passed away a few days later.
PLEASE, if you read this, rethink your meds and be careful. I do take a pharma drug myself, for migraines, but we all must be more discerning. Medicine - especially the combo - killed my cousin. The diuretic made him wake to pee at night; the BP Med made him dizzy upon standing; and the coup de grace was the daily aspirin which made him a bleeder and unable to stop a brain bleed from a hit to the head.
Unfortunately there are some of us that have to be on meds. Period. If I quit taking my thyroid med, I croak, if I quit taking the glaucoma drops, I go blind.
That phrase can be directly applied to politicians by the way. Just substitute big donors and interest groups for drug companies.
I'm in my 50s and I've pushed back on prescriptions all my life. I have still yet to take a prescription for anything. Walking 5 miles a day (not hard to do) will keep your blood pressure and cholesterols within normal range. I also stay away from junk food and stick to basic foods. I eat very well by the way. Meats, fishes, eggs, nuts, vegetables, cheeses...
I am nearly 68, take absolutely no alcohol, drugs, tobacco, etc.
I did have pain meds after surgery a couple of years ago, but discovered I needed to raise the alarm that I wanted to be rid of the damn side effects, and get off. Got off immediately.
A patient has the responsibility to learn what his condition is, what meds are recommended, for how long, and what is the prognosis without the drug.
My doctors have been willing to steer me clear of drugs as soon as I want to. So far.
OTOH if my doctor said I needed a drug for a condition, I would follow their advice.
I do NOT believe in practicing medicine without training or a license on myself, or others.
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where The Trumpet is a mouth piece of
what we used to call the Worldwide
Church of God. And when I decide to
take medical advice from Herbert or
Garner Ted Armstrong, I’ll probably
want to get my psychiatric therapy
from the Scientologists.