I'm too poor--and too stubborn--to practice "throw pills at it" management, and she just wants to keep adding more.
That was the problem I had with a previous doctor! A med for this and a med for that, another med to control the side effects of that med, another med to control the side effects of THAT med... ffs. I went to him a reasonably healthy woman with mildly high BP and ended up on 8 medications, edema in my feet so bad I could hardly walk, persistent wracking cough, and still had slightly high BP. When he wanted to add in a statin, I put my swollen foot down. After a year of his bullshirt, I broke up with him and stopped taking all the meds. I felt better immediately. I'm very cautious now about adding more meds to the daily menu. I'm on 4 now that I do believe I need - AD, BC, BP, Metformin - and I don't want any more. Besides the pain meds which are temporary (dammit, they are).
Karl!!!
I thought my 10 a day was bad!
I do not know this K2. I will research. My bones need help.
Tired now. Will be back around tomorrow.
Good night! I am turning my computer off in 3 minutes myself.
In yuck news, DH called on his way to b-ball tonight to let me know road closures were back because the orange one is back to Mar-a-Lago for Thanksgiving. Besides the damage he does to the rest of the country and world he screws up traffic every weekend now until next spring for my neighbors.
eta: you know it is my bedtime when it took me 4 minutes to write that post.
I'm in favor of meds when they're needed (if they can be tolerated, obviously). But I won't push them on someone as long as no one tries to tell me to stop taking mine.
Plus I wouldn't be able to have a kitty without good old Claritin and Flonase.
Flonase helps my allergies more than anything else I ever tried. I use the Sensimist version. I still use Nasacort too, now probably my nose will fall off from mixing them or some weird shirt like that.
I cannot take the nose sprays. They give me a migraine.
I am almost recovered from sinus surgery. They feared many polyps and possibly cancerous. Turned out to be just a few polyps and a big ball of infection. Yay! Recovery means I have become best friends with my neti pot.
Etfix stupid autocorrect neck pot.
Meds are an absolute miracle for people who can take them. I had horrible allergies as a kid and at about age 12 I started refusing to take the antihistamines. Walking around in a daze sucked worse than inflamed running eyes and nose. They had developed better ones when I was an adult, but I couldn't take them when I got pregnant. That led me to acupuncture, which resulted in my ability to dance in the pollen if I wanna.
The DNA swab thing they gave me to test for medication issues reported I couldn't take codeine, tramadol, hydrocodone, warfarin, methadone, NSAIDs, and a bunch more stuff that listed just didn't work, or worked too much. The results didn't surprise me since this was right after I cycled through 5 pain killers after surgery to find one that would stay down.
At least we know drug addiction won't be listed with my vices!
Wow, Laura. That's a lot of meds you can't take.
GUD!! I just finished Cog and the Steel Tower. That was such a good book. I really enjoyed it. I now NEED to read Cog and the Copper Dragon. Go you, man. Nice work.
I think the issue is a lot of people don't want to take drugs but also don't do any change to their lifestyle either, so...
And there are a fair number of things that a lifestyle change, no matter how extreme, won't remedy.
Glad you're here, Deena!!!
