Yes, If i am offered a drug, I research it fully and check out the alternatives then make an ongoing risk/benefit assessment.As a matter of interest do you all worry and research about any other drugs you take and what the long term effects could be for you it does not matter how long you have been taking something you can always develope side effects
It is not about worry, but I do look into what kind of effects a drug will have before I decide if I want to take it. It is my body, after all. So my decision.As a matter of interest do you all worry and research about any other drugs you take and what the long term effects could be for you it does not matter how long you have been taking something you can always develope side effects
Yes I need to be convinced that a particular drug will be of benefit to me first then I will weigh up the risks and decide whether to take it or not. I did take one dangerous drug for a while because I wanted to give my heart a chance to improve, so I gambled with the side effects. I got one or two unpleasant side effects (skin blistering in sunlight, eyes really sensitive to light and a 'halo' effect when I looked at light) but the outcome was a heart that beats normally again so it was worth it. Having gone through all that, the last thing I want to do is take something which may weaken the heart muscle again.As a matter of interest do you all worry and research about any other drugs you take and what the long term effects could be for you it does not matter how long you have been taking something you can always develope side effects
Before the days of the internet we could not research anything like we can now we just trusted our doctors to prescribe the medication that would be good for whatever we were suffering from and rarely would we have questioned the doctors judgement
I for one do not do a lot of research as I think we can become paranoid about it and sometimes it can do us more harm than good. It seems we are as human beings more inclined to believe the bad about something rather than the good even though we can usually find equal amounts of each.
That is so true. I still feel a wave of pain and mortification when I remember how I kept my daughter on Tegretol for four years because I trusted the neurology team over her complaints. It was only when they stopped the medicine for an operation and she instantly recovered from all sorts of problems I'd put down to her underlying condition rather than the medication that I realised they'd been wrong. I did her irreparable harm by keeping her on that medicine. That was when I started to check all prescriptions for my children.Before the days of the internet we could not research anything like we can now we just trusted our doctors to prescribe the medication that would be good for whatever we were suffering from and rarely would we have questioned the doctors judgement.
It's hard not to feel betrayed, but I think GPs are generally doing what they honestly think is the right thing. Even professionals make assumptions and overlook details, and there's no reason to think the medics I was at university with are any less prone to error than, say, the lawyers or the engineers. And I think the good ones are glad to have patients or clients who do their own research and act as part of the team.
Kate
Yes my Mum was offered it, thankfully she had no morning sickness so declined it.Not a nice subject, but I remember thalidomide.. And the devastaing effects that had....no internet in those days.. Unfortunately.
Thats why I am eternally grateful to be able to google!! I jad a cousin that was a really tragic case.
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I never used the Internet to research anything. I took the prescribed medicine without question in every case because I trusted the medical profession's knowledge and skill. My attitude was that if they made a mistake I would go back to them and they would put it right since they made the mistake.
I noted that each time I was prescribed a statin after the first one caused trouble my nurse would reassure me by saying, "No-one has ever had any trouble with this one". I now doubt if she was being entirely truthful. In retrospect this seems a little more like a divide and conquer ploy.
Not comparing notes with others at that time left me open to this. It is no longer the case thanks to the Internet and this forum.
Here is another interesting articleNice one but I don't think a lot of people will want to know about that they only take notice of the bad written about statins
The story passed me by. Statins do what they say they do and that is lower cholesterol levels, some people get side-effects others don't, however your more likely to hear about the ones that do than the ones that don't.
just wish they had been tested on women as trials were on men and us girls are still wondering how much good they do us
I think you've rather missed the point there zand. I didn't say we should all die in our 50's. But having read a lot of your posts, you're not exactly happy are you? (not a dig) xxUm...I don't want to die in my 50's........ ...that would mean I have only 3 years max. left to do all the things I want to do
I think you've rather missed the point there zand. I didn't say we should all die in our 50's. But having read a lot of your posts, you're not exactly happy are you? (not a dig) xx
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