Re: Are Pills Really Good For You?
- From: hrubin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Herman Rubin)
- Date: 19 Feb 2006 13:36:08 -0500
In article <7oLJf.478$kt2.410@fed1read02>,
Carter Smith <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Are Pills Really Good For You?
Or Are They Harming You?
People assume medicine is good for you just because a doctor prescribes it.
No one ever questions a doctor's orders because a doctor is supposed to know
what is best for you.
A doctor giving orders should be immediately responsible
for malpractice, unless it is an emergency situation which
does not allow for discussion. A patient not wishing to
adequately discuss should lose most citizenship rights for
a period until he can show that he understands and is willing
to take responsibility for his actions.
Each person's body is uniquely different. We all have
the same body functions and processes, but each person's body will function
and process slightly different, especially when we take medicine.
There are many medications which are overprescribed, and much of
this is due to bad use of statistics. Likewise, there are mnay
which are underprescribed, again for the same reason, this time
mainly on the part of the government. Responsible people need
to learn how to balance risks and benefits FOR THEMSELVES, and
the government needs to let them do it. This will require more
information from the industry, but they are starting to do that
even without this.
Children
and adults will react to medicine differently because of the difference in
body size. So, a child should take less Tylenol than an adult. But what
about medicine for a mental condition such as depression or anxiety?
The "slogan" of the diabetes news group is, "Your mileage may vary."
.....................
My 16-year-old cousin has been on medicine since he was very young. He has
been taking antidepressants and antipsychotic for several years. He has
always been very aggressive and violent. He is a very smart teenager but
couldn't finish school because he said he could never concentrate. He called
me the other day and he sounded different. He said he was feeling almost
100% better. I asked him what had changed. He said he stopped taking his
medicine. I asked him why. He said his pills were making him worse. He
explained to me that the medicine he was taking was more than a normal adult
would take. He began taking his medicine several years ago at the lowest
dose. His body would get used to the medicine and it would stop working. His
doctor would increase his medicine again and again until he was taking over
3 times the normal amount for an adult. I was very shocked. He said he felt
like a walking pill, so he stopped taking his medicine. He said it has been
over 4 months since and he feels so much better. His recent visit to the
psychiatrist was not what he expected. He told her that he was feeling a lot
better. She said that was good. Then he told her that he had stopped taking
his medicine. She told him that was not good and that he should be taking
his medicine even though he felt better by not taking it. He didn't think
that made sense, and it doesn't. I now believe that the medicine he was
forced to take during his childhood has made him worse. His medicine kept
him violent to the point where he was taken away from his mother.
Medicine is not always the answer. Many of the medicine we have today have
been created in the last 50 years. People assume that because medicine is
the latest medical advancement that it must be safe and good. What's new is
not always better. It's better to treat certain conditions naturally. * I am
not suggesting to anyone that they stop taking their medication. You should
ask your doctor first. If you feel they are telling you something you know
is wrong, go see a naturopathic doctor.*
I disagree with the last, but the doctor should give you the
available information on the medicines and on your condition,
and let you be the decision maker. This should be mandatory.
It doesn't matter what condition you have, everyone can help themselves
through it with these tips that doctors and psychiatrists forget to tell
you:
As for the rest, take it with a full container of salt. The
suggestions made are "reasonable", or are they? There is as
yet no study on humans which shows that the current dietary
recommendations are appropriate, and there is some that they
are not. I regret to have to say that I know more about
nutrition than most doctors or nutritionists. It is also
impossible to study with the cookbook statistics which they
use as religion. This includes the great bulk of those
doing medical research.
--
This address is for information only. I do not claim that these views
are those of the Statistics Department or of Purdue University.
Herman Rubin, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
hrubin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: (765)494-6054 FAX: (765)494-0558
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