Big Pharma ?????? Do they really know what they are doing?????

So my husband has been on cholesterol medication for many year, and I mean many years. They have had him on Niaspan along with the cholesterol medication. He suffers from gout or uric acid buildup in this body and his left ankle is very swollen. I thought once he retired completely, it would go down. Well guess what, it hasn’t. I do a lot of investigating medications and there side-effects since I had cancer. I really don’t want to take synthetic drugs because of what they do to us.
One day I decided to take a look at Niaspan and it’s side effects. Low and behold I see the statement, if you suffer from gout do not take more than 1000 mg a day. Well, his doctor, and I can’t really blame her, had him on 1500 mg a day for a while. I told him to only take 2 pills a day but the damage had already been done. So now he has to wear a brace which I don’t know if it is really doing any good. He now has been taken off Niaspan because they now realize it has no effect on helping cholesterol.
I understand that they want to protect us from heart attack but maybe if these companies and scientist would stop genetically modifying our food and let them naturally do what they are supposed to do maybe we would not have so much disease and obesity in our society.
No wonder antibiotics don’t work on us, we already have so much in our systems from our food that when we do need it for illness, they don’t work.
Right now, my husband is not on any drugs for cholesterol and we have a prescription for something to begin in January. Well not sure I want him taking it because of the side effects. The statement – if you are over 65 years old take with caution because the side effects can be greater than normal. Last spring his doctor put him on a medication- it was said to help his cholesterol and keep his sugar level in a better range. He was on the medication for 3 months and guess what – he gained 45 pounds and now has shortness of breath. The medication he is being asked to take said the side effects of this medication may never go away if you are 65 or older. I wonder if this is the case with this other medicine as those side effects have not gone away either. Having major issues with weight loss no matter what we do. So what do we do?
I think we all need to look at these companies that supply medicine and see and how they are training there sales rep. with regards to side effects. I don’t know if I blame them, I blame the Big Pharma companies. MONEY BEFORE PEOPLE. That’s they way to go.
What are your thoughts?

Well Has Run Dry

Allow me to say first and foremost, This post is my own opinion.  I feel the need these days to say this as people are trying go after others when they say something.

What has happened to our country.  We have freedom of speech but people are putting down others when they express it.  It is much like judgement.  I grew up being raised to be seen and not heard.  Although, I never raised my kids like that.  I respected their opinions whether I agreed with them or not.

Everyone has a opinion or their perspective on things.  I do not ask others to agree or disagree with that.  We all have an opinion about everyday life and what goes not.

So I am going to say something, my opinion, but what do our politicians think they are doing.  They all want money and they keep dipping into our pockets wanting more and more.  We have the Federal Government who dips even before we get a paycheck (1/3%) and then they keep charging us tax after tax.  Then you have our local government – State, County and also School who also dip into your pockets.  And then you have these governments who want pay raises of $14,000.00 and $4,000.00 across the board but when it comes to us we are lucky if we get a 1% raise.  So let me ask,  how are we supposed to continue paying for your big raises when we are not getting anything close to that.

Our pockets are running dry quickly.  We need to step back and take a look at all of the people who are dipping and start getting rid of them.  When is someone going to step and stop the madness.

While I appreciate people’s opinions, I don’t always agree.  People are becoming more and more aggressive with other people.  Just like yesterday, I was in a store waiting to be helped by Customer Service and a person came up behind me and asked me if I was waiting.  First of all why would I be standing where I was standing if I was not waiting.  Then the person asked why I did not move up closer, like that was going to make a difference and I just said, whats’s the big deal.  When I got helped I move to the counter and I thought the woman was going t jump in my back pocket.  Personal space all.

Things are going crazy in this country and we all need to take a deep breath and step back.  Things, in my opinion, are not going in the right direction but the wrong direction.  What kind of roll models are we being for the younger generation.

I think we need to take a look at our prescription drugs and what they do to our human brains.  They definitely change our brains and are causing more problems then anything else.  I wonder if these brain changing drugs are a lot of the cause of the mental health issues in this country.  Why don’t we start looking at that.  Oh I forgot – Money before people.  That, I guess is our new country motto. MONEY BEFORE ANYTHING ESPECIALLY PEOPLE.

Let me hear your thoughts.