Overmedication Nation
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Often it can be genetic and obviously you need the medications. But, do you think this is the case with everyone? Or, does it not matter and everyone should go on them regardless? |
Anonymous
We would still need statins because it is much more complex than diet. When I was a child, most men in my neighborhood had a heart attack by the age of 60. They all had bypasses, with issues afterward and many, if didn't drop dead ftom the first heart attack, they did on the second one. There was, also at that time, lots of grandmothers and great aunts and hardly any grandfathers or grand uncles. Food plays a role, but it’s about many other factors. |
Anonymous
I wasn’t at 50. But then, not so long after that… Life comes at you fast, even when you eat your veggies. |
Anonymous
This is true. A lot of my friends’ dads died of heart attacks. They seemed old at the time, but many were in their 40s and early 50s. |
Anonymous
My mother was almost 72 before she took any daily medication or supplements. She is active (still works) but not an exerciser, didn't eat junk food but neither ate DCUM "clean." Could have afforded to lose 20 pounds but never weighed herself and didn't bother with a doctor. Just shy of her 72nd birthday, she was hit all at once with some weird symptoms, saw a doctor, then a specialist, and found she has a late showing autoimmune disease. She now has to to take three medications daily. It has been an adjustment for her. Sometimes, it is just luck of the genetic draw. |
Anonymous
What’s true? Our food is killing us? |
Anonymous
Millions of Americans don’t have health insurance and don’t get inadequate preventable health care. Start there. And we eat more processed food than other countries. And we work more hours a week than most countries and take fewer vacations. And we value profits over people. So god forbid we make changes that might reduce someone’s investment portfolio or a corporate bottom line. It’s not a mystery. At all. |
Anonymous
I’m glad you got it all figured out. |
Anonymous
Every time. Do and I are in our late 50s and are not on any medication. My 84 year old mother only has eye drops. |
Anonymous
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I used to be anti-meds. I internally judged women who “quickly” turned to anti anxiety, anti depression meds. This was part of my upbringing, my parents are still disdainful of medication.
As an adult I was diagnosed with ADHD and prescribed meds, they were life changing. I could better focus and it reduced my overall anxiety because my brain doesn’t rush constantly. Now I understand. And I feel bad for the judgment (I never told anyone, but I still feel bad). It’s not wrong to need these meds. The human body is flawed (how many of us wear glasses/contacts? How many of us have had an appendix removed? Needed a hysterectomy?). It’s silly to think that we shouldn’t need any thing to fix the problem in our brains but we can fix the problem in our bodies… |
Anonymous
I’m not getting the sense that PPs are anti-meds. At all. Merely questioning whether doctors are quick to prescribe. However, I’ve not been prescribed anything so that has not been my experience. |
Anonymous
I’m 54 and I’m on a GLP. A thyroid med. HRT (estrogen and progesterone pills). An anti depressant. And reflux meds (3 types but I only take 1 now). I also have a prescription for nausea I use occasionally, one for anxiety (as needed), prescription nasal spray (as needed) and vitamin D prescription. |
Anonymous
All those can be shrunk down to one thing. It's not knowledge. It's will power. I'm not blaming sidewalks. Whole foods are available. The whole world does it. No more excuses. |
Anonymous
That men used to be a lot more likely to drop dead suddenly. Some of the dads I knew as a kid that this happened to were unhealthy, but not all. |
Anonymous
Same in my family. Men just didn’t make it to 60. Even ones with white collar jobs. |