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From: c186282 <c186282@nnada.net>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 07:13:32 -0400
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On 3/14/25 6:46 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 14/03/2025 04:47, c186282 wrote:
>> Seems like most modern meds have a HUGE list of
>>    horrible side-effects ... like yer dick rotting
>>    off from Jardiance infections. Maybe the old
>>    docs "two aspirin" advice wasn't far off ......
>>    all my old relatives who stuck to that lived
>>    the best and longest, and Granny never ate veggies
>>    for 99 years (inherited her taste buds) - she was
>>    just northern euro boiled beef & taters and a beer
>>    or two, sharp to the end .......
>>
> Unfortunately I know the difference between not taking the meds and 
> taking them - side effects and all.
> 
> I've worked with my 'doc' to maximise benefit and minimise the side 
> effects, so that its not a just a  question of prolonging a miserable 
> existence, alone.
> 
> But its 8 pills a day, plus vitamin D in the winter and antihistamines 
> in the summer and a steroid inhaler twice a day.
> 
> And that only stops things getting worse.
> 
>>    In a couple months I have to break-in a new doc.
>>    Don't know what the previous put in his notes.
>>    I've gotta re-explain/justify staying as clear
>>    of "modern med" as possible ... and I do have
>>    stories about relatives who rotted and died from
>>    getting on their bandwagon. Gotta be NICE about
>>    it however. INTENTIONALLY didn't get corp health
>>    insurance because of this. If you don't have a
>>    bottomless well they'll suddenly find reasons why
>>    you don't NEED all those zillion test$/procedures/meds.
> 
> In the UK its a different scenario. People are getting lawyered up and 
> if the GP *doesn't* send you on all those tests and you *do* end up with 
> some unspotted cancer, they are in the shit.
> 
> They have a prescribed methodology.
> 
> As my practice chief said "in this case we normally do this immediately, 
> then send you off for those tests, and continue treatment on the basis 
> of what those test shows, or pass you over to the appropriate hospital 
> department if something bad shows up".
> 
> I think there isn't an orifice in my body they haven't shoved a camera 
> down - or worse - up... My whole body has been scanned. Apart from my 
> brain arms and legs.  I get blood tests around 4 times a year at the 
> moment at the behest of various departments that are 'on my case'.
> 
> I appreciate all this, because unlike so many of my friends, I am  still 
> alive.
> 
> Not in great health, but alive.


   Super bummer dude !

   But not everybody is in yer position - most seem
   seriously OVER-medicated, OVER-tested, OVER-charged.