hum? a list of doctors who want to give you drugs.... So if I want to take a specific drug I just need to look for a Dr. that will give me that drug in the data base, then make an appointment... lol HUM? 
 
Sounds like a plan!
 
This is just for fun I'm not really looking for drugs!

After the car accident last year, I had to see a pain specialist. He prescribed painkillers, muscle relaxant, anti-inflammatory which I had to take for a few months. I have 3 or 4 bottles of each prescription unopened in my nightstand. 
 
The thing that fascinated me is that they insisted on giving me a shot even though I thought the pain was quite manageable (when in rest position, anyway). To convince me, my doctor told me that he regularly injected himself with that med after his workouts when he felt sore. I thought this was the oddest behaviour for a pain specialist...
 
Following that accident and for a variety of reasons, I started experiencing crippling anxiety issues. Actually, I realized that I'd gotten by for years but that it had simply reached a point where I could no longer manage it. So last month I took an appointment and finally saw a doctor two weeks ago.
 
Once again, it surprised me that I was prescribed medications without much testing and without being referred to a psychologist or something. Don't get me wrong I was hoping that she'd have some kind of pills for me so that I could go on with my life, but I was also expecting that the causes would be investigated.
 
I still believe that the condition is due to a chemical imbalance or something genetic - even more now that I mentioned it to my brother who told me of his own anxiety issue and of our father's. I thought it came from my mother, but I see that it's the whole family... But no blood test, no nothing.  Just the basic pressure and listening to the heart and lungs with a stethoscope. 
 
Anyway, so far the pills seem to be working w/o adverse effects, save for very minor digestive problems. 
 

No prescriptions here.... just an aspirin a day at this point with vitamins and supplements.
 
Funny story.... My mom, at age 84 had a heart attack and was hospitalized after they did a triple bypass on her.  Aside from the fact that she lied to them telling them she was only 70, for which her doctor chewed me out.... I said ... hey doc,  she's been lying to us all, welcome to the family.... 
 
Anyway, after several days in ICU and a few more in the normal rooms, they finally discharged her home.  They had a whole regimen of pills for her to take for pain, blood thinners, and other things....  So, only one day home from the hospital, and she says, nope... I'm not taking those pills anymore... they make me feel funny....  so she ditched them and went back to taking her vitamins and supplements.  Her home care nurse went ballistic on her but my mom won that one. She told the home care nurse to go tend to someone else.... and she fired the nurse and told her to get out.  Mom went on to live to the age of 96.... and lived alone that entire time and drove a car up to the year before she passed. 

I'm on a Statin, but that's it for now.

michaelhanson
I'm on a Statin, but that's it for now.

Hope you're taking CoQ10 or Ubiquinol with that statin!  I learned a lot about how statins remove this when my Mom was put on Red Yeast Rice, then I read a lot of warnings afterwards to the same effect.

No, I guess I will have to read up on that. Inform me, please.

Here's one article about it: http://www.cholesterol-and-health.com/Coenzyme-Q10.html
 
And another: http://www.drsinatra.com/coq10-facts-what-you-should-know/
 
I like this guy (been on his mailing list for years): http://www.alsearsmd.com/2015/02/why-you-should-avoid-statins/
 
Tons of other information out there!

Hi,
 
thanks Craig ... I needed that article, as the doctor loves his statins and he is too much of a bleeper to give a darn what happens to his folks!

Moshkito
Hi,
 
thanks Craig ... I needed that article, as the doctor loves his statins and he is too much of a bleeper to give a darn what happens to his folks!

you do realize that in the United States you have a choice of which doctor you go to, right?

IIRC, there are only two countries that allow TV ads for prescription meds: the USA and New Zealand.
 
I can remember when they weren't allowed here, either, but were eventually given the go-ahead as long as they always included the phrase "ask your doctor".
 
Turns out, asking your doctor is no guarantee you'll get good information. I did ask my doctor. Their information comes from a book called the Physician's Desk Reference, which is a for-profit publication whose data is supplied by the pharmaceutical companies. It is basically a compilation of all those little 4-point-font leaflets that come with your prescription pills.
 
Your doctor goes by this book when deciding what you need and how much of it you need to take. Dosages are routinely too high, because drug companies want to a) make sure you get a high-enough dose to notice, and b) have to buy more of it.
 
I found out that one of the BP drugs I was taking was 4 times the recommended dosage, according to an alternative reference that's actually written by doctors, not multi-national drug companies. So I took it upon myself to cut my dose in half, monitoring my blood pressure before and after. My BP did not rise as a result of taking half the medication. Later, I informed my doctor that I'd done this. He just nodded and updated my chart accordingly.
 
If you or anyone in your family takes prescription drugs, you owe it to yourself to read a book called "Overdose: The Case Against the Drug Companies". It was a real eye-opener to me. Before reading it, I assumed "ask your doctor" was all the advise I needed.