NFRR (Nonfood Related Rant). Okay, surely you have seen the commercials/advertisements for

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florisandy

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Abilify and just about every other new or existing pharmaceutical companies' remedy for just about every ailment.

Have you ever noticed the increasing disclaimers/warnings on those products that is explained in rapid-fire format? Get it in writing or you surely will have no claim in the future with your health provider/class action suit…

I just watched yet another pharmaceutical company’s commercial again and am amazed about the many, many side effects of their prescription drugs that they promote. It’s comical to watch the many pharmaceutical companies plugging just about every new or established drug with rapid-fire delivery and very lengthy warnings about the product that may do harm to you and of course, “Check with your doctor” before taking….

Why not eat a bloody banana or whatever natural remedy that would naturally (and most likely) cure a deficiency??

Am I barking up the wrong tree in the Amazon??

 
The sad fact is that when people begin taking drugs to "cure" ailments...

...they also have to take drugs to stem the side effects of the drugs they took originally. And then more drugs to stem the side effects of the new drugs, etc., etc.

Doctors, though valuable in many ways, don't "cure" a whole heckuvalot. They treat symptoms with drugs. My wake-up call came when I saw how much medicine I take in six months. It scared me, and I believe with diet and exercise I can get off most, if not all, of the drugs I'm now taking.

I'm with you.

Michael

 
I absolutely agree with you

and I am completely opposed to allowing drug companies to marker to consumers like this. I think that the reason doctors reach for their prescription pads as we walk in is because people demand the drugs that they see on TV. I am 55 years old, and as wide as I am high, and you should see the disbelief in doctors' and nurses' eyes when they ask what medications I am on, and I say I don't take anything.

Which is why I have to lose weight to stay that way.

 
Not even counting what it is doing to your immune system. A good friend recently died

And might have lived longer but for the fact that nothing they gave her worked because she had taken so much stuff her whole life that her body couldn't fight infection on its own and had become immune to everything they threw at her. So sad.

 
Sorry, I didn't mean to bring anyone down but we really need to think about what we are doing.

 
I believe that Abilify is a drug to treat bi-polar and related conditions

which aren't caused by deficiencies.

Not that I don't agree that people aren't over medicated and turn to drugs to treat (with physicians over prescribing) things that could and should be controlled without medication.

I suffer from a chemical imbalance that has been so ravaging that it has twice taken 2 years from me (had to drop out of college and, when I turned 40, out of the workforce), countless hospitalizations along with incredible physical and mental suffering and I would not be alive today (let along made it to my mid 20s) without medications. The list of side effects are endless, hard to endure as well as embarrassing (nothing like going up 3 sizes in a matter of weeks). But I'm alive with a very good quality of life because of them.

Please know that I'm not writing this post as a harsh or mean reply to this thread - not at all; I believe I understand and agree with the intent of it. Just that many, many medications are life saving/life sustaining (the condition can't be treated without medication) no matter what the side effects are.

smileys/smile.gif Deb

 
Yes, thank God for modern medicine. It's the abuse of it that's so sad - by doctors and patients

 
Yes deb, I do understand that certain drugs are very necessary and thank goodness you've

been able to live a better life because of them. I welcome your point of view and take no offense.

I just wish that doctors were more impartial to the demand of their patients who see these ads on TV and the drugs more judiciously dispensed.

A few years back, my doc in Philly wanted me to take Citrix (a smoking cessation drug). After reading online about all of the scary side effects such as “thoughts of suicide”… I figured I’d probably live longer than jumping off a bridge - LOL!

Hey, if I had to take chemo or radiation, I’d do it to hopefully live.

What I don’t like about the drug companies’ ads is “Ask your doctor.” Your doc should know (hopefully) what’s best for you.

 
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