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ConsiderThis · 12-16-2006, 02:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Ellie

Thanks for bringing this up.

I do not believe a forum such as this could be dangerous as long as the readers understand the intents of these types of communities.

Members of the forums should always keep in mind that information posted on this website (and others of this type) such as links, posts, quotes, etc. is not intended to replace the advice of your health care (or legal, financial, etc) professional.

Also keeping in mind, it is possible in these types of situations there can be two rights. For example (pardon my babbling); You may have one type of treatment which is successful for you, however, I may get the same treatment and have adverse reactions - so another treatment would probably be best for me. This is why people should be very careful when taking advice and to discuss everything before trying it with their health care provider.

Thanks again, this topic helps all members remember to discuss things with their providers before trying anything new.

Thank you. Though I think you rather missed what I was saying. In my case, my health care provider was adverse to vitamins and extremely PRO antidepressants.

As you most likely saw, there was a news announcement this last week saying that antidepressants must now carry a suicide warning on them. So, it appears that there is an inherent danger in antidepressants to a large number of people, or the warning would not be necessary.

At the time that I had my antidepressant problem I found out an interesting thing. Because I was trying to sue the doctors who had failed to diagnose and treat my B12 Malabsorption Illness in time to prevent nerve damage, despite the fact I told them my mother had pernicious anemia, I was able to learn things in the Discovery process. For instance I learned that the doctor who told me he thought I should be on Prozac for life had been sued successfully for hiring a depressed doctor who made some sort of extremely bad error that was apparently blamed on the depression.

So, I have to ask, was he thinking I should be on Prozac for life because of the legal responsibility he was judged to have when he failed to attend to the depression in a doctor he hired to work in his practice?

My feeling is that he was prescribing for me based on something other than what was actually good for me.

I think that if he'd had my true welfare in mind he would have increased the B12 prescription, since it has been shown many times over the years that there are no ill side effects from B12.

What he did instead, was prescribe a drug which had been shown to have some severe side effects, and I got some of them, the worst of which was the double incontinence.

So, I think that people need to keep a running record of their health and if they have any symptoms of low B12, I think they should take it and see if it makes an improvement.

My experience has been that doctors prefer to prescribe expensive drugs with some horrible if not deadly side effects, in preference to vitamins.

And what really scares me is that people eat less well when their prescriptions are expensive, so their bodies grow flabby and less healthy for want of proper protein, and vitamins and minerals from Good food.

I think it is of the utmost importance to take care of ourselves. Yes, go to doctors, but don't expect doctors to be right all the time, and if doctors are less than interested or well informed about vitamins and herbal supplements, then do some research and if you try those things, keep records of what happens.

Why do we believe the studies that are published on the news (even though year after year there are conflicting results) and yet not want to do our own running study.

Look how many women did not want to give up hormone replacement because their doctors had advised it... yet now it has been shown with massive numbers that after the warning last year, following which vast numbers of women stopped taking the hormones, the rate of breast cancer has vastly diminished.

Doctors like lawyers are not always right.

It is so important for us to keep track of our health ourselves.