Re: To Those Who Are Using Pharmaceutical Drugs
The posts and the debate on this forum has been really useful for me, I basically agree with you Glax, and my husband is quite sure that if I go to an MD, and get a pill everything will be just wonderful overnight.
It is my intuitive feeling that most of the prescription meds on the market today have a short term positive effect, but may have a long term destructive effect. Almost all of the medications that I've looked at that have been on the market for any length of time that kill worms are really hard on the liver. So I take the heat, and go the natural route. The one time I tried an phramacological med, it was over the counter pyrantel pomeate, and I wound up with a scattering effect, and a huge floater in my left eye. It's finally fading now, as I'm doing a humaworm cleanse, with a few of the herbs added that I usually take.
A case in point, from a subject area I know pretty well, is prozac, it contains floride, which seems to be pretty hard on the thyroid gland, and poisonous to other organs as well. It makes you feel good for a while, but it undermines the body's ability to produce a critical hormone. It was never designed as a long time medicine, but that is how it is now being used, and it's contributing to the condition it's supposed to help heal.
I also have to say that most new drugs are originally derived from plants, anti-biotics came from penecillin mold. And you can screw yourself up good with herbal medicine too, I've already done it a couple of times. But because the concentration is lower, you can change course faster and usually before you do yourself real damage.
That being said, I would like to plead for tolerance for all points of view, I would feel badly to lose shroom's posts, I really learn a lot from what he posts. But that also extends to the pharmacological side, I'm successfully dealing with a severe
parasite infection with mostly natural medicine, but I now feel not much like posting because of the general tone of the forum. Nobody should hijack this forum, the problems we all have are too life threatening and serious, and are too taboo and misunderstood by the medical community, and people with useful information from any direction who take the time to post ought to be welcome. Back when MD's were still fairly sane, back in the 80's, I had a friend who was an oncologist. His feeling was that you do whatever works. We are in the same boat, we either get rid of the parasites, or they will continue to consume us, eventually weakening us physically and psychologically and contributing to or causing an early death.
I've been accused of being arrogant, intolerant, and a flaming jerk at times, because I fail to listen enough to others. So I am guilty of it as anyone.
I keep remembering someone dissing a pretty sensible post because it had a mis-spelled word. All I can say, is the information that can save your life might just come from somebody who isn't as well off or as educated as you are. or just not cool, or older, or whatever. So just maybe listening to someone else's point of view might just save your life.
I agree the tone of the forum is putting people with a lot to offer kind of in the corner. I hope it changes. Someone has to moderate, and glax has put a lot of time into this, and it's helped me, and who knows how many more people who just read and never post.
Julie