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 …
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.
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