Elderly Risk Poisoning by Multiple Drug Cocktails

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Magnolia — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 03:17:39 GMT

Even veterinarians do better than this. Before prescribing any drug for my aging dog, my vet would do blood tests to see how her kidneys were functioning, and several other panels I can't remember just to make sure the body could handle the extra stress load. I have never seen a doctor do this before prescribing anything.

This is a serious problem and the best way to handle it would be to tell your pharmacist, not your doctor, what you are taking and let him or her check for interactions and side effects. Pharmacists can be very helpful in that area. That is their field of expertise. Doctors often know very little about the drugs they prescribe. Armed with what the pharmacist says, then you can go to your various doctors.

I can't tell you not to go to doctors in the first place but that would be my own personal solution.

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shiva — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:12:22 GMT

In my personal experience over the years, .. it has been shocking to witness the number of medications that many individuals and especially the elderly are condemned to taking on a daily basis and according to their physicians orders.

It seems quite apparent to me, as I have observed to be typical of these individual patients,.. that their health continues to deteriorate while at the same time the number of prescriptions they are taking, in turn continues to escalate. ......... With this in mind,.. it is not too difficult to figure out why as each year passes, more and more individuals are turning to "natural" or what is more commonly referred to as "alternative" medicine,.... because they discover that the natural approach is what works. The Allopathic approach is ultimately a path to ones own destruction.

In my opinion, one of the most important aspects of the natural approach to healing is the fact that it puts the responosibility for healing where it belongs,.. in the hands of the patient. .. Natural medicine is empowering of the individual. .... Allopathic Medicine is empowering of the pharmaceutical corporation,.. and that is most definately to the detriment of the individual.

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samurai — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:07:23 GMT

This is commonly known as the "supra-additive effect", where 1+1=5.

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Sheila C — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:57:47 GMT

If you get your prescriptions filled at the same drug store every time, the pharmacists should be able to catch the bad combinations of drugs.

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mmc88121 — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 02:04:35 GMT

On thing this article did not mention is many times the drug labels are using the generic name of the drug and the Over-The-Counter medications use the brand name of the drug so many people still have no idea if they are taking the drug mentioned or not. I am surprised that the lady mentioned in the article is still alive.

Mary

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Patty D — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:24:45 GMT

I was on verapamil and couldn't eat grapefruit, on Coumadin and had to be careful of other foods and on and on. Many times, when a doc went to give me a prescription, I was the one who knew there were interactions with other drugs I was taking. I was the one who would realize that a new problem was a side effect, but, being so well indoctrinated I kept right on taking them, fully convinced I would die without. I was on over 20 meds. Although I was extremely careful in researching interactions, I KNOW there was no way I was avoiding them totally...and now that I've started my healing journey and coming to this site, I realize I was poisoning myself. I wonder how long it's going to take to recover not only for all my diseases but from the toxicities too.

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Katee Roux — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:42:38 GMT

The article also didn't mention that docs often dismiss reported side effects & often are uneducated about these side effects in the first place. Often people on so many meds are on meds to treat the side effects of the first ones. It seems especially in the elderly, who have been taught to trust their doctors, that docs dismiss side effects as "unrelated," or "due to aging" rather than the med.

I agree with Russ, they are dangerous. Chemicals concocted by corporations don't belong in our bodies!

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Russ Bianchi — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:38:41 GMT

Once again, PROOF POSITIVE of harmful compounds in prescription drugs, independent of intended dosage results.