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It IMO depends on each individual and how they react to pharms.

Give my quad son morhpine or demoral and his heart rate soars and he goes into a panic attack because he can’t feel himself breathing.

No antihistamines for either of us.

Some meds are a last resort to pain management or chemical imbalances.

Everyone goes through mental issues do to life and most allow for time and understanding of what is stressing them to resolve things.

But some with severe symtoms due to disabilities may do well on meds it is like keeping do you want comfort to contractions/pain ect to a lifelong disablity or the relentless pain and mental anguish from a broken brain/body.

I have had doc get tempermental because I have refused surgery or medication but if I or my son can be comfortable and tolerate a certain level of pain then we would rather live without meds that have unknown long term effects on liver,pancreas ect.

Son just started taking Reglan after decades of not and I mentioned to the doc oh good oh reglan which he replied yeah it has always worked and the four other meds that came out after it have been taken off the market.

He joked about what he recommends for bowel cleansing that the drug companies can’t TM it.....milk and molasses warmed together given as an enema....works wonders.

Got know if you have a Pharm pushing doc or a conservative healing doc I guess helps too.

It does get weird. My wife and I both take Xanax. She has for almost 21 years and I have for 13. She can't take Valium though. Drugs like Xanax also got an bad wrap but mainly because of improper dosages usually too high and too far apart. I started out on about 2 MG twice a day. That is a very strong dosage. It helped me part of the time but quite a few hours in the day it didn't. Finally a doctor put me on .5MG four times a day. The secret isn't the strength but the bloodstream effective life which is 6-8 hours. Four times a day it is consistent and a higher dosage isn't needed.

That is why a lot of persons become addicted to it so quick. Actually if I'm home I can take two pills a day sometimes. If I go shopping in the dreaded Walmart I take an extra pill sometimes two if during busy hours and I don't stay long.

Cold medications can be tricky. Do not take any cold medication with antidepressants unless the doctors says to do so not even over the counter. I take Singulair and Claritin on a daily basis for allergies with no ill effects.

Good luck to you and your son. We've been at this almost 22 years now. Near as we can tell a likely missed mild case of Polio came back on my wife at age 35. It took years to figure that out but her rehab doctor suspected it because of differing limb measurements. The medical term is Transverse Myleitus simply meaning side to side spinal cord inflammation. She got hit with it at C-5,C-6 and the quadriplegia is incomplete. She got a major portion of her arms and hands back along with some trunk muscles.

Another member of my family takes Luvox though with no problems.