Good grief, my quack alarm went off when I read that. Those drugs can cause depression. Is he in denial of that side effect?
He should get together with a psychiatrist I know who thinks lithium is so great it should be added to the water supply.
I spent all sorts of money getting a brain scan after seeing double. They found an old “micro stroke” and were all freaked out about that. The eye doctor checked my eyes - and said “Yeah - your’re getting older, harder to focus - here’s some new glasses.”
My regular doctor asked me why I was taking the heart medicine (something-statin). I told him about the micro-stroke, but he said my blood pressure, cholestrial, etc. was good - and I didn’t need it. “Well - the baby aspirin once a day won’t hurt - but you don’t need the statin.”
I found out later via FR all of the problems with it.
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!
“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.