I keep developing all these Can’t be fixed health issues. Just got told Monday I have severe Dry Eyes, strange didn’t have it before cataract surgery. Even if I spent the day reading. Seeing the Kindle screen is a big issue for me, I can by large print books. My fingers don’t work well due to the arthritis, had to give up my contacts because I could no longer remove them. Now I’m in a no line trifocals, with much of the reader the 12 inches away eliminated. I buy the best Ziess lenses as they have the widest middle distance of any of the brands. Plus they make the lens for the Hubble Telescope.
I moved to the Samsung Note 3 because I could blow up the fonts. The last flip phone took a dunk in the toilet after falling out of the to shallow jeans pockets they put in women’s jeans. I now buy mostly men’s for the deeper pockets. Plus better waist and length fit.
I’m the side effect queen, most pills go in the trash after just a few. It is pure bologna that the side effects will go away in a couple of months. I’m living proof they don’t, they just get worse.
2 highly recommended books. The first is the best Amazon will have them at a reasonable cost.
Your Bones: How You Can Prevent Osteoporosis and Have Strong Bones for Life - Naturally Lara Pizzorno 2013
The Whole Body Approach to OP
R. Keith McCormick
ALL OP drugs are FDA FLAGGED, with Foreto being double FLAGGED as it is also Black Boxed for Bone Cancer. Reclast is the worst as it never leaves your body and is NOT to be given to Asthma patients. Doctors are supposed to warn patients, but they don’t.
Safety update for osteoporosis drugs, bisphosphonates, and atypical femur fractures, A FIB, Jaw Degeneration, Kidney failure deaths.
http://www.fda.gov/drugs/drugsafety/drugsafetypodcasts/ucm229800.htm
Black box warning Foreto
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=21853
http://www.betterbones.com/osteoporosis/forteo-bonedrug.aspx
It’s just murder getting older. Things just stop working- really important things like your eyes & ears. My eyes periodically give me fits. I don’t know how people who have ‘always worn glasses’ have survived without major frustration issues.
I think I must have relied on my peripheral vision a lot because I am just not impressed. Shopping is practically impossible.
The hearing thing is getting funny, though, when it’s not maddening. ‘What?/ Pardon?’ goes after every spoken line at my house. Sometimes, it turns out we DID hear what was said, so now it’s maybe 30/ 70 habit. You have to laugh or else.
With me, it’s lighters. I’ve always liked men’s jeans better (lol All mouth & no rear), but that little bit of stretch is sometimes a nice thing to have. I never thought about the pockets, but that’s true!
The only drugs I’ve ever been able to take without regret are antibiotics (knocking on wood here). I *used to* have severe panic attacks & have had them them since I was 16 yrs old. I took Xanax (very low dose) for almost 2 yrs. Boy, that was a nightmare! I’d had a myocardial infarction before that started (which felt just like a PA except I really *did* throw up & lose consciousness)
It made the panic attacks almost constant & consequently, I was in the ER constantly. After nearly 2 yrs, I decided ‘if I die, I die’ & demanded the doctor get me off of it.
I didn’t expect it, but the attacks Just. Stopped. That was 1996. I haven’t had a dozen attacks since then.
I can’t take anything that makes me feel ‘off’ or flakey. And I can’t take painkillers because they make me hurl.
I’m not at all surprised about osteo drugs. ‘Hormone replacement’, too. Medicine has become a racket. I don’t really even trust my vets anymore. BTDT with the bad side effects for the dogs. I google before I give it. And if it’s elective, I hold off until I can.
Don’t get me started about the FDA taking Primatene off the market. The pharmaceutical companies pulled the same thing with the safer heartworm preventative, Interceptor (for dogs & I guess, cats too), but people balked, now at least, they brought it back. Too bad. We’ve gone back to the old daily.
Osteoporosis may be part of what’s wrong with my back. My paternal grandmother had it. But the women in my family are tough old gals & I’ll keep going until I can’t (God Forbid it!).