Are we too dependant on medicin today? Yes.

[Joelcool7]

Scoobes said:

Joelcool7 said:

Well I've been heavily medicated since I was a kid. When I was young I had ADHD apparently so I was on Ridalin. Anything went wrong and here's another pill. I finally got off pills for a few years but then stopped being able to sleep naturally. So 15 pill tryouts later I found a drug that puts me to sleep, but its an anti-psychodic and it makes meel feel Meh about everything I can't get overly happy or depressed and I have no modivation to do anything.

I tried getting off the pills immediatly I felt 100x better, but couldn't sleep and within a week was haluscinating and blacking out. So back on the dang pill. Tried reducing dosage but that meant less to no sleep.

I hate being on drugs, I also caught MRSA a infection that is resistant to anti-biotics. Was in the hospital 2 hours twice a day for like 3 months for IV anti-Biotics.

I just got a cold that lasted over a month. I went into the doctor and he perscribed 5 pills. I went home and took them a day before deciding "No more freaking pills" so I stopped taking them.

It sucks but pills are forced down our throats! And in some cases like my Insomnia they are nescessary but they always have side effects. Always something negative, they say their is nothing free in life, well their is no such thing as a cure without paying something else for it!

5 pills for a cold?! Wtf?! Did he at least tell you what each of them was for?

And I think people need to do their own research rather than just accepting their Doctors recommendations. It's not the medicine that's the problem in a lot of cases, but the people prescribing them. I especially hate the idea of giving kids drugs like Ridalin. There are just too many unknowns in a developing mind and body. I feel sorry for you having had so many pills forced down you at such a young age, it just sounds like overkill.

He gave me Advil Cold and Sinus something, Tylenol 3's, A cough syrup (perscription), two anti-biotics. He said all the medication was nescessary as he thought I had a very bad virus. I was like why do i have so much, he was like

-The Tylenol 3's have something in them that helps stop you from caughing

-The advil will clear your sinuses and help with the coughing

-The cough syrup will also help with both the coughing, sore throat and sinuses

Then he said he thought the virus was mutating into an infect but he didn't know what kind of infection so he gave me two different anti-biotics to kill any infection.

I took them all for like a day or two before stopping. I was like "hell no" I'm not taking five different drugs for a cold. Granted I still have the cold and its been over a month since I got it. But I'd rather have a slight cold (It feels alot better now then it used too) then take five freaking drugs.