This whole thread is just filled with misinformation.
I am an organic vegetarian and I have been since I was 17. So, if you don't want to look at my age, that means 45 years of careful eating and organic gardening.
It did not prevent me from getting a whole bunch of inherited auto-immune diseases. Although my cholesterol is great. From eating well for so many years, I guess.
I take a whack load of drugs. I would probably be dead without them. Instead, I am a functioning member of society. I am involved in my church, and I am a mother and grandmother. So do those of you who think I should go without drugs think I should stop them, and be a bed ridden, pain ridden person who will soon die because of the attacks on my heart, brain, kidneys and lungs? We won't even get into the pain my joint deforming RA causes me.
I will take any drug that it takes to control my diseases. That includes asthma, hyperthryrodism, Rheumtoid Arthritis, fibromyalgia and sleep disorder, caused by all the pain I am in. Yes, I got very depressed when I first had these diseases, but God did deliver me out of that depression. But that doesn't happen to everyone, especially those with chronic depression, who have had it for more than 10 years. And because of the stigma of depression, a lot of people don't get the medical help they need (read medicines) and after 10 years, it becomes very difficult to get the brain to produce the neurotransmitters it needs to maintain normal function.
The most expensive drugs I take are biologics, which cost me about $1700 a month. Minus my personal and provincial insurance and a company help, I pay $0. However, in the US, these drugs are much, much more expensive. I used to be on Rituxan, a drug you got twice, 2 weeks apart, every 6 months. It cost me $1800 minus insurance each with a total copy of $25 a month. An American friend of mine paid $75,000 for the same two injections. This is why I prefer Canadian health care. Because it is reasonable, and worth waiting for.
So I would post a med list, but that would be long and boring to read. Instead, I will just point to Luke in the Bible, who was a physician and traveled with Paul. Paul had some amazing miracles, like a poisonous snake biting him and God healing him. Yet he still had a "thorn" in his side, and there are suggestions he did not have good eye sight, as he wrote with "such large letters," in Gal. 6:11. Could be he was losing his distance vision as he got older? My husband has that really badly. He cannot see a thing close up without glasses. So are glasses not allowed either? How ridiculous to wait for healing of a perfectly normal consequence of aging, like losing close up vision. Or distance vision, like I lost at age 10. No glasses for the poor little 10 year old, so she could see the blackboard in school? Ridiculous!
It is so ironic that people on here condemn using modern medicine, because it is "not in the Bible" when they are using the Internet, which certainly is not in the Bible either.
I can only praise God that I live today, in an age when I do have access to strong medicines which do shut down the disease, so I am not a burden to my family and society, and cannot function. And I pray none of you get serious diseases like I have, so that you have to go on medicines that are so strong, and with a lot of side effects. Oh, and pain meds - don't forget that some of us need those when are meds are not working up to pa.
