Most doctors are still trying to put us all on statins. Most life insurance companies still won’t sell you insurance if you’re really fit, have great bp and ‘high cholesterol’. Talking with a person visiting from Scotland yesterday, it is painfully obvious that Americans are penalized in this for not buying into the corporate food, medic…
Most doctors are still trying to put us all on statins. Most life insurance companies still won’t sell you insurance if you’re really fit, have great bp and ‘high cholesterol’. Talking with a person visiting from Scotland yesterday, it is painfully obvious that Americans are penalized in this for not buying into the corporate food, medicine and entertainment industry. Makes you want to be like the Amish.
Here's one for you. My doctors wanted to put me on a statin as I had total cholesterol of 227. I told them I could reduce the cholesterol by diet, alone. (Luckily, I like salmon and avocadoes) Got the total cholesterol down to 161. They STILL wanted me to take a statin. So I did. Awful muscle aches and cramps. Threw that garbage out. So riddle me this - if cholesterol is supposed to be under 200 and I got mine to 161 why a statin? The only thing I could assume is that most of the medical profession has become clinically retarded.
My husband's doctor tried to bully him onto statins with no supporting data or tests. He didn't even meet their (false) criteria for taking statins and he was trying to force him onto them. We fired that doctor. My mom's doctor pushed her onto them when she was around 83 or 84, she ended up stopping taking them, but continued to suffer an injury from them for at least a year after stopping. It is a fraud and I don't know how they can live with themselves knowing that they are following protocols for profit and not acting in the interest of their patients.
The pHarma companies continuously "update" these drugs so they can re-patent and reap the profits from the "new and improved" version. The doctors, to a significant degree, push these newer drugs as they receive compensation for prescribing the "new" one - none for prescribing the out-of-patent version. And the drug companies are always sending young attractive females to the docs' offices to tout these "miracles" - so THAT's why you were Rx'ed even though you didn't need it. I'll bet the Rx was for the newer model med - was it?
That indeed is ridiculous! I just wrote my (long) story, at the end also about a prescription I didn't need; two kinds of medication to lower my blood pressure that was not just high, it was fluctuating after a serious incident causing stress (and having had hypothermia because I had fainted and fell, laying a while in the cold), one of them was a beta-blocker.
Just take away the source (stress and get over what happened), no she said... just take the medication, it is dangerous when you have high blood pressure. I asked if it wouldn't be more dangerous to take medication for high pressure while also having long episodes of real low blood pressure as it was fluctuating. No answer.
Once I had a nasty wound and needed to go get it treated; they wanted me to take a mammography. For what? I asked. Just in case. It was a cut, a nasty embracing of a bush with thorns, I don't need a mammography for that. Yes but what if you may also have a breast-tumor,about you don't know, you never know... I was like: really? Thanked for the treatment of the cut and walked away.
Physicians not in private practice are now required to prescribe a statin if the persons cholesterol is above a base number. Regardless of the health of the individual. Medicine by the numbers is the path we are on! Also includes injections for grading.
Same - except for around 20 years. Year after year, I always say no. I watched my father's health deteriorate from statins years ago.
Doctors are also incentivized with bonuses to prescribe statins, like they are with the bioweapon jabs, and chemotherapies. It's so disgusting. I no longer trust allopathic medicine.
Back in the early 80’s I was told my cholesterol was “high”; so, I was prescribed a statin & took it for a few years. But, I read about a study concerning statins, & the fact statins could actually cause someone to have a heart attack. I stopped taking the statin, & my cholesterol is not high & I’m happy I quit taking it. I read a great article from a doctor on this substack, Remnant MD (don’t have his name handy), about cholesterol & statins; I made a good decision not to take this horrible drug!
Exactly. Keep reading articles on the need and merits of computer directed care. Have been reflecting on whether tele-care isn't playing a role in making this acceptable?
My doc told me every year to get on statins and Al ways said, “No way!” In 2021, she said I should go and get a heart scan or take statins. I said I’d do the heart scan. That report came back with a “perfect heart condition.” I quit going to that doc.
I don’t have and don’t want life insurance. Kids are grown and self-sufficient. Told hubby to cremate me and scatter the ashes on the ocean (our favorite place). Funeral industry is a racket. A memorial service is nice though.
Most doctors are still trying to put us all on statins. Most life insurance companies still won’t sell you insurance if you’re really fit, have great bp and ‘high cholesterol’. Talking with a person visiting from Scotland yesterday, it is painfully obvious that Americans are penalized in this for not buying into the corporate food, medicine and entertainment industry. Makes you want to be like the Amish.
Here's one for you. My doctors wanted to put me on a statin as I had total cholesterol of 227. I told them I could reduce the cholesterol by diet, alone. (Luckily, I like salmon and avocadoes) Got the total cholesterol down to 161. They STILL wanted me to take a statin. So I did. Awful muscle aches and cramps. Threw that garbage out. So riddle me this - if cholesterol is supposed to be under 200 and I got mine to 161 why a statin? The only thing I could assume is that most of the medical profession has become clinically retarded.
My husband's doctor tried to bully him onto statins with no supporting data or tests. He didn't even meet their (false) criteria for taking statins and he was trying to force him onto them. We fired that doctor. My mom's doctor pushed her onto them when she was around 83 or 84, she ended up stopping taking them, but continued to suffer an injury from them for at least a year after stopping. It is a fraud and I don't know how they can live with themselves knowing that they are following protocols for profit and not acting in the interest of their patients.
The pHarma companies continuously "update" these drugs so they can re-patent and reap the profits from the "new and improved" version. The doctors, to a significant degree, push these newer drugs as they receive compensation for prescribing the "new" one - none for prescribing the out-of-patent version. And the drug companies are always sending young attractive females to the docs' offices to tout these "miracles" - so THAT's why you were Rx'ed even though you didn't need it. I'll bet the Rx was for the newer model med - was it?
I’m sorry. That’s ridiculous.
What's ridiculous? My doctors' nostrums or my telling of it?
Not LDT, but I read them as saying that it's ridiculous that you were still prescribed a statin after reducing your cholesterol.
You being prescribed something you don’t need.
That indeed is ridiculous! I just wrote my (long) story, at the end also about a prescription I didn't need; two kinds of medication to lower my blood pressure that was not just high, it was fluctuating after a serious incident causing stress (and having had hypothermia because I had fainted and fell, laying a while in the cold), one of them was a beta-blocker.
Just take away the source (stress and get over what happened), no she said... just take the medication, it is dangerous when you have high blood pressure. I asked if it wouldn't be more dangerous to take medication for high pressure while also having long episodes of real low blood pressure as it was fluctuating. No answer.
Once I had a nasty wound and needed to go get it treated; they wanted me to take a mammography. For what? I asked. Just in case. It was a cut, a nasty embracing of a bush with thorns, I don't need a mammography for that. Yes but what if you may also have a breast-tumor,about you don't know, you never know... I was like: really? Thanked for the treatment of the cut and walked away.
Spot on
Physicians not in private practice are now required to prescribe a statin if the persons cholesterol is above a base number. Regardless of the health of the individual. Medicine by the numbers is the path we are on! Also includes injections for grading.
They may be required to prescribe but no one is required to comply. I have said no for around 40 years, and I'm still here.
Same - except for around 20 years. Year after year, I always say no. I watched my father's health deteriorate from statins years ago.
Doctors are also incentivized with bonuses to prescribe statins, like they are with the bioweapon jabs, and chemotherapies. It's so disgusting. I no longer trust allopathic medicine.
And the in many cased the doctors get bonuses for each vaccine given.
It's horrific...I wish more people knew this...
Back in the early 80’s I was told my cholesterol was “high”; so, I was prescribed a statin & took it for a few years. But, I read about a study concerning statins, & the fact statins could actually cause someone to have a heart attack. I stopped taking the statin, & my cholesterol is not high & I’m happy I quit taking it. I read a great article from a doctor on this substack, Remnant MD (don’t have his name handy), about cholesterol & statins; I made a good decision not to take this horrible drug!
Pharmakeia
Sorceries...
Greek Word with a lot of meaning.
Yep.
Pure Evil Big Harma!
I don’t think everything is bad, much of modernity has been shifted. There are physicians and scientists who are actually looking to help people.
Exactly. Keep reading articles on the need and merits of computer directed care. Have been reflecting on whether tele-care isn't playing a role in making this acceptable?
This is because medicine is now practiced with a use of algorithms! Especially if the physicians practice is owned by a hospital consortium.
My doc told me every year to get on statins and Al ways said, “No way!” In 2021, she said I should go and get a heart scan or take statins. I said I’d do the heart scan. That report came back with a “perfect heart condition.” I quit going to that doc.
I don’t have and don’t want life insurance. Kids are grown and self-sufficient. Told hubby to cremate me and scatter the ashes on the ocean (our favorite place). Funeral industry is a racket. A memorial service is nice though.
I agree that it is a racket… but many people believe that part of a civilized society is how they treat their dead.