Posted by headachequeen on January 26, 2004, at 15:59:11
In reply to Re: topomax » pbjc, posted by PoohBear on January 26, 2004, at 12:19:35
WHY DON'T PEOPLE GET IT???
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> There seems to be a paperback 'guru' under every rock waiting for the opportune time to tell of the latest crazy wellness scheme to "get people of the drugs that are ruining their bodies".
Oh yes... if only we could throw these meds away and be free truly free of our demons...
and I pray that the missing girl is home soon and back on HER meds and safe...
however reality is that we need these meds for whatever reason...
cancer-causing as someone was told???
A dear and precious friend of mine was dying of cancer and his wife, the original witch if ever there were one, flushed his meds and pain-killers down the toilet because that was all that was wrong with him - he was addicted to the pain-killers and drugs and if he quit taking them he would be fine...
People are so confused....
I mentioned a while ago the woman who told me that if I stopped wasting all that money on drugs I would be just fine...
Mmmhmmm just go cold turkey and get well...
I did go cold turkey as far as zyprexa and effexor and immovane were concerned and that worked --THAT TIME...
but I am asthmatic -- severely so and I need those meds to let me breathe, something I am fond of doing...
I am an epileptic and I need Tegritol much as it gripes me to admit it, and I need Topomax if I want to avoid constant seizures... something I prefer to not have in my life...
I have severe allergies that make my asthma worse so I need the antihistamine...
oh and the high blood pressure makes me a candidate for stroke...
so we need to keep taking those pills too...
and apparently I have high cholesterol and the doctor thinks I should keep taking the stuff to keep it down...
He is not one of these pills are everything types so I think I can trust his judgement in these things...
I have no immune system and a mosquito bite or a simple cut means that I have to have antibiotics with all too alarming frequency-- often intravenously... and that is so much fun! I live for the moments...
Yes, I suppose if we all smartened up and learned to do without these medications we would be much better off.
We should just stop being so immature and throw away the meds for bi-polar disorders, depression, epilepsy, whatever...
after all, it is all in our heads anyway....by the way, has any of these know-it-all types ever produced a medical degree or psychology degree????
Until they do, they should simply back off and let us find the best way we can to find healing and support because obviously they provide neither....
and they are so totally annoying and destructive...especially when someone falls into the traps they set...
kat the totally furious
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