Dear Debra and everyone, Speaking of big pharma drugs, here`s a good one for you: Just last week I saw my doc for a checkup. He saw my BP was rather high and recommended a med for it. I said, "Well, OK, I`ll try one," even though I hate taking meds. So he gave me a scrip for 10 mg. Lisinopril. Like a dummy, I filled it before reading up on it. (Only paid 3 bucks, but being on SSI disability, even that is a lot.) So I got home, and started reading the blurb the pharmacy gave me. Sounded rather icky, so I looked Lisinopril up on the Internet. I found and read about 85 tales of incredible woe by folks who the Lisinopril had done dirt to. I decided not to take that crap, for sure!!! Well, a few minutes later my new roommate Kathy came home from work. She was feeling yucky as usual. I told her the doc gave me a scrip for Lisinopril and how horrible it sounded. She said "That is what I`m taking!" She was getting 20 mg. or twice what the doc had prescribed for me. I showed her the info on the internet and she said, "WOW! I`m not taking this any more!" Turns out she had nine of the ten worst side-effects! 3 days later she was really improving, and yesterday she was able to clean her room and get the furniture all rearranged. This from a gal who would sleep solidly for 12 hours or more every weekend... She has had thyroid cancer, so she has no thyroid, and we both thought it was the thyroid meds not working that was making her so miserable. Not! The doc who prescribed it never told her not to take it with NSAIDs, well she takes 800 mg Ibuprofen for the spine damage from her car wreck in 2005!!! (She and her mom were in a car that was the filling in a semi-truck sandwich!! That is quite a story...) So now Kathy is really improving, and I`ve been saved from misery. How`s that???!!! Whew... Marshalee
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Deborah Gerard <[email protected]>wrote: > How many peoiple do doctor's kill each year and let's talk about the drugs > big pharmacy and how many die because people trust them > > > - > >
