Prescription Drugs

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resurrection33

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I'm not much into taking drugs for medical reasons. They seem to have other (unpleasant) effects in addition to the effects they are supposed to have.

I just found out my cholesterol is too high. Someone tells me I ought to take Lipitor. I figure first I ought to stop eating all those Burger King whoppers and French fries.
 
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I could refuse mine and watch my blood pressure get so high again i could die. Or lose my new kidney and die. Nah... i'll pass and keep on the meds. ;)
 
resurrection33

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Ugly said:
I could refuse mine and watch my blood pressure get so high again i could die. Or lose my new kidney and die. Nah... i'll pass and keep on the meds. ;)
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How many whoppers do you have a week?
 
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Its an issue doctors have not been able to figure out. Before you go making assumptions.
 
resurrection33

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Ugly said:
Its an issue doctors have not been able to figure out. Before you go making assumptions.
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I am no genius. Still, I think a lot of people could cure their problems without drugs. My mother had high cholesterol. They said it was her genes. However, I watched her pour about a quart (slight exaggeration) of salad dressing on a small salad and eat it.
 
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Changes in diet, exercise and losing weight have had no effect.
 
Stephen63

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resurrection33 said:
I'm not much into taking drugs for medical reasons. They seem to have other (unpleasant) effects in addition to the effects they are supposed to have.

I just found out my cholesterol is too high. Someone tells me I ought to take Lipitor. I figure first I ought to stop eating all those Burger King whoppers and French fries.
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Doctors will almost never prescribe herbal medicine because The FDA basically doesn't recognize them & outlawed such herbs as perscription medicine. That's why they're labled as 'suppliments' instead of 'medicine'. Drug companies paid them to do it years ago.

Example: My wife started having gall bladder attacks recently & since there's no 'medicine' to treat it, her doctor told her if she had any more attacks to come to the hospital & have it removed. Instead, she went on the internet & found a special diet that lasts about 4 days & she tried it. The swelling went down, the pain left, & she passed several gall stones. Worked like a charm. She's eating regular greasy food now with no problems. No side effects, no nothin'.
 
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yeah...i don't have a thyroid. I can't just take herbal pills for that..
 
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Mines low as well. I take meds for that also.
 
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I've been taking some stuff called L-Argenine and L-Citrulline. Equal amounts, quite a bit daily (GNC sells it)....that stuff is amazing....I only mention it because I've felt greeeeeat since i started taking it. It's also good for any circulatory issue and I've been told that it's AMAZING for people with high blood pressure. They are natural amino acids, and it's good for both high blood pressure and cholesterol problems. There's been a lot of scientific studies on it. It's important to take both (Citrulline breaks down into argenine anyway but it bypasses certain blood barriers and allows more to actually be absorbed)....I can't recommend it highly enough.

Combining that with some fish oil works wonders. Benefits the libido very noticably as well

I wouldn't recommend combining the citrulline/argenine at the SAME time your taking high blood pressure meds though......it could make it dangerously low. Ask the doc first if you have no choice but to take blood pressure meds.
 
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Stephen63 said:
Doctors will almost never prescribe herbal medicine because The FDA basically doesn't recognize them & outlawed such herbs as perscription medicine. That's why they're labled as 'suppliments' instead of 'medicine'. Drug companies paid them to do it years ago.

Example: My wife started having gall bladder attacks recently & since there's no 'medicine' to treat it, her doctor told her if she had any more attacks to come to the hospital & have it removed. Instead, she went on the internet & found a special diet that lasts about 4 days & she tried it. The swelling went down, the pain left, & she passed several gall stones. Worked like a charm. She's eating regular greasy food now with no problems. No side effects, no nothin'.
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Definitely sir. I used to work in a pretty unsanitary work environment. as a consequence, I got a staph infection on my legs and I had no insurance. The medical cream I had to buy (Bactrim, and I think "Nystatin" but i could be wrong on that name) was over 300 dollars! I took it and it did clear it up, but about a week later it came back in the same spot as bad as it ever was.

I said screw paying that much just to manage the symptoms.....so I researched meticulously and found that silver kills any kind of bacteria, friend or foe. I found some stuff called "Curad Silver Solution". It's a simple gel that has a very small amount of silver in it (It's measured in ppm, or parts per million). It said on the box it helps to prevent staph and stuff but said nothing about treating it (It's illegal to market it that way is why I'm guessing). It was 9 dollars a tube. It cured it completely, faster and waaaay more efficient than the 300 dollar cream. It took several boxes of it, but hey.....38 to 40 some dollars to cure what 300 dollars can only treat? Can't beat that.

I'm not a doctor, just an average joe with a laptop and a google search. The medical industry is messed uuuuuuup when I can treat myself better than highly trained professionals.

Also, I talked to a nurse friend of mine and told her about my discovery.....and she's like, "The bactrim combo you were taking actually has some silver in it...that's probably why the thing you took worked"........so I was thinking to myself hmmmm, is it possible that the medicine itself is completely worthless, and what little good it did was only because of the silver present? If so what a clever scam they are running.
 
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resurrection33

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Donkeyfish07 said:
I've been taking some stuff called L-Argenine and L-Citrulline. Equal amounts, quite a bit daily (GNC sells it)....that stuff is amazing....I only mention it because I've felt greeeeeat since i started taking it. It's also good for any circulatory issue and I've been told that it's AMAZING for people with high blood pressure. They are natural amino acids, and it's good for both high blood pressure and cholesterol problems. There's been a lot of scientific studies on it. It's important to take both (Citrulline breaks down into argenine anyway but it bypasses certain blood barriers and allows more to actually be absorbed)....I can't recommend it highly enough.

Combining that with some fish oil works wonders. Benefits the libido very noticably as well

I wouldn't recommend combining the citrulline/argenine at the SAME time your taking high blood pressure meds though......it could make it dangerously low. Ask the doc first if you have no choice but to take blood pressure meds.
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I take a half tablespoon of wheat germ oil each day to get my vitamin e.
 
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I think prescription only or alternative medicine only is a silly argument, with both the "only" sides not the truth of how to make the best of health care.

There is a medical doctor named Andrew Weil who spent his first years of practice studying alternative medicines used throughout the world. After he learned both approaches to medicine, he has been instrumental in opening up the medical field to the value of alternative medicine.

Even medical doctors look down on patients who only want a simple pill to fix a problem, thinking them just lazy. There is always something to watch for in the pills they give. Even the wonderful antibiotics that saves so many lives and is such a wonderful thing for us has a down side. It can wipe out all the friendly bacterial we need in our intestines and cause all sorts of problems. A thinking man who isn't lazy takes the antibiotic when it is necessary, and learns how to replace the friendly bacteria.

The medical field is learning more and more how to work with nature for healing. For instance, one development is the way the mind and the production of hormones work together. Scripture tells us to watch and control what our minds are doing, we are to renew our minds and we are told what things to think on. Doctors are finding that what we think about produces constructive or destructive hormones. Anyone can know this is so, for we all know of the sudden surge of strength and power we get to act when we are truly frightened. Or how our body reacts to the feeling that something is very wrong.
 
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I like to take natural things when i can. But i am on so many specialized meds now that i would have to consult a doctor to take a multivitamin. Also, i can't really afford all these natural things. At least my meds are covered by my insurance. Mostly i just keep a supply of Gaba in the event i start having anxiety problems.
 
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Ugly said:
I like to take natural things when i can. But i am on so many specialized meds now that i would have to consult a doctor to take a multivitamin. Also, i can't really afford all these natural things. At least my meds are covered by my insurance. Mostly i just keep a supply of Gaba in the event i start having anxiety problems.
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All those meds you are taking are like calling in the marines when there is an emergency. Takes care of the emergency, praise the Lord for them.

If you can add natural things, it is like preventing the emergency, it is actual cure. There is much to learn about natural things. It isn't only Gaba for anxiety, there is exercise, diet, and thought control for instance. Learning how God works with our body and how the natural things God gives us to maintain it well can be used is very profitable.
 
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the only Rx medication i feel i need to survive in an emergency is my inhaler for asthma.. i'm glad i rarely have to use it anymore, though. But, eventually i would like to replace my synthetic thyroid medication with some kind of natural one too, but unfortunately my doctor won't work with me on that one. I've seen a functional medicine practitioner when i can afford it, but he's not ready to actually completely replace it with natural meds like Armour. But since he has given me Apo-strum homeopathic drops and Nature-Throid, my symptoms have improved greatly!
 
damombomb

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My Mother had high colesterol. they put her on crestor, she had a bad reaction to it. So she ate oatmeal for four months
every morning, and her's is normal now. She only had to do oatmeal for a while.
 
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I don't ignore my doctor, nor decide to take what he says without trying to take care of problems on my own. We talk it over, sometimes, but in the end I decide for myself on my own care knowing he has studied more than I have.

My doctor wanted me to take antibiotics for a bladder infection. He let me medicate myself. It didn't work, I went on antibiotics and take lots of fermented food and acidophilus he doesn't know about.

My doctor said that I must learn to handle diabetes, as my blood sugar test showed that I would soon become diabetic. I took Alpha-lipoic Acid, stopped all sugar that I could, watched my starches, and used a lot of cinnamon. Now, each blood sugar test comes out fine. I didn't bother to tell him what I did.

I have eczema, and doctors have tried to help and nothing worked. Next, it was going to an allergy specialist. I decided to try biofeedback when an outbreak started, using the tip of my finger on the outbreak. It worked, now I won't be going to the allergy specialist.
 
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wisebeardman

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I dont go to doctors, they are really nothing more then legal drug dealers paid to push big pharma's pills. biggest majority of these "conditions" should have been cured long ago but with big pharma in control you will never see real cures for things. (cures cost big pharma money, big pharma ain't gonna have none of that)

Also just look at TV seems every lawyer has some lawsuit against big pharma due to bad pills they push.
 
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