Posted on 11/27/2015 11:43:34 AM PST by Thistooshallpass9
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.
They are overmedicated because it is easy. I am elderly but I maintain my control over the Drs. I take only 1 prescription that for HBP...
Every Dr. appointment, he seems to have ONE more pill he thinks I should have......NO I won't. I can tell he is not happy.
Side effect....this, this, this, this and last but not least I may lead to death. Sure send me a boatload, not. Mother in law had one pill after another and each time developed something else that called for another pill.
Also sayz: "Use on the skin can be carcinogenic; excessive consumption can be toxic"
My criteria for prescription meds is will I die if I don’t take this? If the answer is no I don’t take it. :-)
“My criteria for prescription meds is will I die if I don’t take this? If the answer is no I don’t take it. :-)”
That goes without saying. ;-)
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.
the pharmaceutical commercials are absurd they try to sell us on positive benefits to this or that medication the whole time reading the dangerous and long list of side effects.
one of my favorites is cialis which cautions that side effects may include erections lasting 6 to 8 hours along with loss of vision and hearing I want to be there when that guy shows up at the emergency room
My goodness, what is commonsense doing here? Whaaaaaat...take responsibility for your own health?
Take their meds, and wait for the lawsuit commercials if ya live long enough.
Your wife is not alone, although I simply said no.
Same is true for relatives.
Statins won't let you live forever, they just make life so miserable it seems like forever.
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.
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