Sometimes the DR doesn't trust their patient (or the DR could be...fill in blank), I know of three people that have gotten off of most are all of their meds by a change of life style, diet and moderate exercise (very moderate) , in one case (diabetic) the DR told my cousin that he has not had a patient that would do what was necessary and is why he kept trying to push the meds until the test showed conclusive.Kevin Johnson wrote:So far, stopping the one (of two) high blood pressure meds appears to have halted the leg cramps.
I think I might have mentioned before that Samantha had a reaction to the pneumonia vaccine shot about 18 years back. She started to perceive almost all foods as being rancid and she threw away a lot of what must have been perfectly good food. This progressed to most other smells being that of grey flannel cologne. Her doctor was concerned that she might have a brain tumor but an MRI came up clean. Then he said that this sort of reaction was a rare possible side effect of the vaccine. It went away after a hellish year, thank goodness, but it left her hypersensitive to smells, many of which actually work to make her angry. Nice.
She was one of the first people to report the muscle wasting from statins (before it was publicized and her doctor didn't believe her at the time). There appears to be a genetic component as her father received statins at the VA hospital and wasted away so much that he was on the verge of death. She told him about her reaction and he had to fight the doctors to take him off them. They relented and he recovered. Scary. You have to keep in mind that some doctors don't believe what you are telling them.
Keep in mind that in my cousins case he was at least able to regain enough site to be able to function some what, I know of another that addressed his issue quickly and kept 95% of his site and health, My point is, is that food diet and exercise with moderate pleasure intake will cure most of what we suffer from.
But I am quite serious.
