Isn’t that just the irony of medications. For example one is prescribed for headaches and on the warning packaging it warns that it causes headaches. LOL. KA-RA-ZY! Can’t envision Nancy Pelosi and her cronnies getting their hands on medicine that is for sure! It is all so whacked already.
I have become much more aware of the side effects of medications, supplements, and things like MSG since my daughter was diagnosed with a seizure disorder.
I can envision Nancy and Obama getting their hands on healthcare, and it scares the crap out of me.
I know they will push things like generics and say that generics are the same as the other medication. I know that is not the case for both anti-seizure medication and for thyroid medication. For anti-seizure medication, even the coloring and other stuff they put in the generics (not the main medicine) can cause problems for epileptics. There’s been a lot of articles about it recently in the epilepsy foundation.
For thyroid medication, the level of the medication is not as consistent as it is for a brand name.
I know I’ll survive the whole socialized medicine thing, but I am truly worried about my daughter. She has seizures, a brain injury, a heart arrhythmia. I worry that they will council her about end of life transition (whatever they call it). I worry that the number of places to get EEGs and MRIs will decline. I worry about wait times (it already took us 6 weeks to schedule an EEG).
I’m going off topic, but anytime we start any thread on healthcare it starts me worrying about it.