Posted on 03/07/2018 3:13:49 PM PST by heterosupremacist
video @link (1:12) I believe first and foremost in informed consent. If you are informed of the risks, benefits, and alternatives to a given treatment, you will be empowered to make the best decision for yourself based on your personal, family, philosophical, and religious life context. But the truth is that prescribers are not in a position to share the known risks of medications because we learn only of their purported benefits with a short-tagline of dismissively rare risks that are thought to be invariably outweighed by the presenting clinical concern.
But what about serious risks – including impulsive suicide and homicide – surely we are informing patients of that possibility, right?
Wrong.
In fact, the FDA and the pharmaceutical industry have gone to great lengths to conceal multiple signals of harm so we certainly can’t expect your average prescriber to have done the investigative work required to get at the truth.
In fact, from 1999-2013, psychiatric medication prescriptions have increased by a whopping 117% concurrent with a 240% increase in death rates from these medications[2]. So let’s review some of the evidence that suggests that it may not be in your best interest or the best interest of those around you for you to travel the path of medication-based psychiatry. Because, after all, if we don’t screen for risk factors – if we don’t know who will become the next victim of psych-med-induced violence – then how can we justify a single prescription? Are we at a point in the history of medicine where random acts of personal and public violence are defensible risks of treatment for stress, anxiety, depression, inattention, psychosocial distress, irritable bowel syndrome, chronic fatigue, and even stress incontinence?
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I don’t think I’m in cardiac rehab. Just have some stents with no strokes or heart failure.
ten years ago, every patient over 35 at our facility seemed to be on a statin. Now? hardly ever see them. Only in cardiac patients.
I’ve read that everyone over fifty can benefit from statins whether they have heart problems or not. It took a while to find a statin whose side effects weren’t brutal for me, but I eventually did and will be taking them for the rest of my life. No biggie.
I was a bit frightened after seeing two people a short distance away who morphed into one as they grew close. So I looked at the chimney on a house behind ours—there were two!
First step, check with our eye doctor. Sure enough she uncovered an astigmatism had increased—never knew I had it. New glasses prescribed. Several years later my eye is back to normal. Sorry about all that money wasted!
My son is a cardiology nurse, and he has told me he has heard cardiologists claim that beta blockers are a miracle drug... He told me because he knows that class of drugs has nearly killed me twice; the second time the drug nearly killed 45 Navy band folk also on the bus I was driving at the time. . . . A good FReeper friend is fighting death right now from - IMHO - beta blockers. . . . Some cardiologists need to be Baker-acted!
See my #25 re: beta blockers. I now add an allergy to them on all medical forms.
Just illustrating the different approach to heart disease. Doctors here in the US are too prone to just write prescriptions willy nilly, almost shotgun, without really thinking.
Antidepressants - I was feeling like crap due to dealing with one engineer who was a major backstabber, and liked to act out. Doc at the time said maybe I should be on antidepressants. I decided not to tell him that a half a kilo of Semtex on the jerk’s gas tank would work better.
I did almost tell the jerk that he should march through Free Derry, wearing orange, waving a Union Jack and calling Bernadette Devlin a fat slag. If he did, I wonder how long he would last.
” I changed doctors to one who would rather see me back on the bike more, and tends to be conservative as far as prescribing medications - dietary changes first if possible. His view was if I am that physically active, beta blockers would be counterproductive.”
Good for you. I also believe in as few medicines as possible. Diet adjustments and supplements first. All docs should be doing blood tests for vitamin and mineral levels to look for possible solutions before prescribing drugs. I am glad you are back on your bike.
” I don’t have much respect for medical practitioners.”
You know, I am hearing that more and more. People are losing respect for doctors because they aren’t listening to them. I have walked out of more than one doctor’s office for that reason.
“He should get together with a psychiatrist I know who thinks lithium is so great it should be added to the water supply. “
We’d all be catatonic, if they had their way.
So, so true. In every area of your life.
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