[sparklite2]

My idiot cardiologist said if he was king, he’d put beta blockers in the drinking water. So he prescribed metoprolol.

I have low blood pressure and many drugs have side effects which lower BP, a bonus for most. In my case the metoprolol got my BP so low I could hardly stand up and keep conscious. I stopped it immediately. Doctors seem to treat patients like black boxes all of which are identical.

[Red Badger]

My doc had put me on some ‘new’ medicine for my High BP a couple of years ago. Instead it made me worse....................

[tbpiper]

Doctors seem to treat patients like black boxes all of which are identical.

Been trying to get my Bp meds adjusted. Feel like a damn lab rat. Stuff works but screws up the rest of my life.

[Do the math]

I also suffered from migraines. My doctor gave a prescription for Midrin. The drug stopped the pain in about 15 minutes. My side effect was a Bonner from hell. Let's just say that I'm not living up to my impressive potential. You know those commercials that say that if the erection last more than 4 hours seek medical attention, hell I was crying like a little girl after an hour. Had to go to the er. The company that made that drug paid my er bill.

[grey_whiskers]

Doctors are idiots, because they deny the existence of anything they cannot explain away: and they *must* explain away because their addled gaze is immutably fixed on the center of the bell curve, come Hell or high water.

And they are stubborn -- "Why, I'm a *doctor* -- and not only could _you_, a lowly layman, probably not even pass the entrance exams to Medical School, but you're also ill as well."