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QUESTION FOR THOSE AGE 60 PLUS

SeaMaiden — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 17:54:12 GMT

Please do not answer this question if you feel it is too personal. I do not want to ruffle anyone's feathers. If you choose to answer great, if not that is great as well.

How many of you do not take internally prescrition medications? If you can give your age that would be helpful.

I am 61 and take no prescriptions meds at this time. I work hard to keep my blood pressure in check which has been the only health issue that I have had to work on actually since my 20's! I have found a combination of daily exercise, diet and herbal supplementation that keeps my blood pressure in a healthy range.

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Zhills — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 18:00:34 GMT

Ditto! What herbal do you use for HBP? I do try to watch my salt intake.

I could be your mother!

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LexaMom — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 18:01:04 GMT

I am 68 and unfortunately need to take 5 meds: atorvastatin for Cholesterol, Lisinopril for Blood Pressure, Raloxifene for Osteopenia, and 2 eye drops for Glaucoma. Sady, I fall into the Medicare Donut Hole around September timeframe. Hoping Trump can do something about the cost of meds.. it is the Glaucoma drops that are the most $$.

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SeaMaiden — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 18:04:42 GMT

@Zhills I have been taking an Indian herbal formula called CARDITONE for about 10 years now. I take three a day. You can buy it on amazon, also on Iherb website and I am sure other places online. It has worked so well for me.

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QVCkitty1 — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 18:05:23 GMT

I'm in my mid sixties and I'm prescription free. I don't think I can take much credit for it though, the only really healthy thing that I've ever done was to stop smoking21 years ago. I just take Advil now and then for arthritis pain.

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author — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 18:06:11 GMT

71, no prescriptions.

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SeaMaiden — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 18:06:39 GMT

@QVCkitty1 I quit smoking also over 25 years ago... I KNOW it saved my life!

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SeaMaiden — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 18:07:46 GMT

@author WOW! That is what I hope to aim for!

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151949 — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 18:25:52 GMT

@SeaMaiden I hate to burst your bubble but most medications are things made from herbs and other natural things and when you are taking herbs and supplements you are taking "medications".

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libbyannE — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 18:23:06 GMT

High bp runs in the family. Despite daily exercise and a healthy, mostly whole-.food diet, I have started taking bp med and am happy to have it.

I also have taken one nightly med since diagnosed at age 35 with serious chronic disease. Those capsules have allowed me to feel fine and live normally. So grateful.

if carditone works for you, great. I read up on it before starting bp med., and labeling of ingredients doesn't seem to meet u.s. guidelines, and there were a few other questions, so I passed.

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Mz iMac — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 18:25:15 GMT

The only rx I take are for my migraines.

By my next birthday, I should be completely weaned off!

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qualitygal — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 18:25:52 GMT

Only Ibprofen for arthritis and back aches. 69.

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excpa — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 18:26:16 GMT

I'm 77(and a half) and stopped taking prescription meds about 3 or 4 years ago when I stopped going to a primary care provider. I still see an opthamologist at least once a year. When I finally came to accept that they just kept adding meds without re-evaluating the need (and I felt I was being treated as a collection of organs connected to a checkbook) I decided to give it all up. I was taking a statin, 2 blood pressure meds, 2 diabetes meds and I think there were more, but I forget. I was also sent to have all sorts of tests, usually expensive, time consuming and annoying, if not usually invasive. I felt I was not listened to was concerned about drug interactions. None of the medics I went to seemed to be concerned about drug interactions. Strange thing: my health improved greatly, as did my bank balance. My eye doctor asks for my primary care physician and seems to accept (finally) that I don't have one. I told him I had "trust issues" and he seems to agree. I had a fall a few months back and found my blood pressure was in the low-normal range, without meds. My diabetes has not progressed and appears to have improved. I don't know what my cholesterol is doing and I really don't care.

I will (probably) seek medical help for an injury, but the idea of being tied down to some medical regimen that is not based on ME just doesn't appeal. I did it for many, many years (40+) but no more. I'm too old to die young and I really hate the modern medical climate that insists you meet some non-objective standard of measurements. I object to being given anti-depressants and refuse them. Since when do people not have the right to their emotions? Why is everyone expected to be happy all the time? Why is everyone so afraid of death? (I'm not a fan of pain, but don't want to become adicted to some opioid medication.) I rarely excercise, eat poorly and live a quiet, contemplative life.

And I wonder a lot. Ads for meds are followed by ads from lawyers wanting to represent you after you take the meds. Ads for foods are followed by ads for weight loss plans. I don't know what it all means.

Don't know if this is what you wanted to know (or why you wanted to know) but I hope it helps.

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sassenach1 — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 18:32:00 GMT

@excpa wrote:
I'm 77(and a half) and stopped taking prescription meds about 3 or 4 years ago when I stopped going to a primary care provider. I still see an opthamologist at least once a year. When I finally came to accept that they just kept adding meds without re-evaluating the need (and I felt I was being treated as a collection of organs connected to a checkbook) I decided to give it all up. I was taking a statin, 2 blood pressure meds, 2 diabetes meds and I think there were more, but I forget. I was also sent to have all sorts of tests, usually expensive, time consuming and annoying, if not usually invasive. I felt I was not listened to was concerned about drug interactions. None of the medics I went to seemed to be concerned about drug interactions. Strange thing: my health improved greatly, as did my bank balance. My eye doctor asks for my primary care physician and seems to accept (finally) that I don't have one. I told him I had "trust issues" and he seems to agree. I had a fall a few months back and found my blood pressure was in the low-normal range, without meds. My diabetes has not progressed and appears to have improved. I don't know what my cholesterol is doing and I really don't care.

I will (probably) seek medical help for an injury, but the idea of being tied down to some medical regimen that is not based on ME just doesn't appeal. I did it for many, many years (40+) but no more. I'm too old to die young and I really hate the modern medical climate that insists you meet some non-objective standard of measurements. I object to being given anti-depressants and refuse them. Since when do people not have the right to their emotions? Why is everyone expected to be happy all the time? Why is everyone so afraid of death? (I'm not a fan of pain, but don't want to become adicted to some opioid medication.) I rarely excercise, eat poorly and live a quiet, contemplative life.

And I wonder a lot. Ads for meds are followed by ads from lawyers wanting to represent you after you take the meds. Ads for foods are followed by ads for weight loss plans. I don't know what it all means.

Don't know if this is what you wanted to know (or why you wanted to know) but I hope it helps.

WELL SAID! And my sentiments exactly. I am not yet in my 60s. I take no Rx drugs and only visit a doc when absolutely necessary. My choice. I have long experience with close family members and some with myself that convinced me to stay away from the medical world if at all possible.

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hoosieroriginal — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 18:47:18 GMT

Just a prescription for hypertension. That's it. I had a lady I worked with a few years ago and she asked me what medications I took. At that point, I took nothing - she was only in her 40s and took a ton of meds - later got hooked on pain meds and they ended up letting her go because she would leave work unannounced to go score some pain meds!

I don't even take an aspirin if I don't need to -try to work through my pain. If I ever had a fever in my life, I would stay home and let my body do what it does - a fever is your body working to make yourself better. I think it all stems from my mom - she never took us to a doctor unless we needed stitches! I exercise regularly (always have) and have walked probably a million miles in my lifetime between dogs and when I lived uptown San Diego - I walked everywhere instead of driving. I get annual physicals.

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shaggygirl — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 18:48:45 GMT

One baby aspirin per day, not a prescription, neverless prescribed by dr.

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SilleeMee — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 18:53:35 GMT

No prescriptions for me. I'm 61.

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LexaMom — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 18:54:05 GMT

I think this thread has stopped being a request for input and has begun to be an anti-Prescription Medicine thread. Sorry, I come from a family of doctors and I feel blessed to live in a time when people with Glaucoma no longer go blind due to drops, people with Cholesterol they inherited from their family no longer have heart attacks. I had a hysterectomy and my ovaries out in my thirties, and losing estrogen cause my bone loss. I feel blessed that I can use a drug to limit the damage. Sorry ladies, but I think you are being much too critical of the drug industry. I would probably be a blind 68 year olf with a heart condition if I had ignored my issues.

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Harpa — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 19:06:18 GMT

DH is 67, I am 63 - both no prescription meds.

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LilacTree — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 19:15:53 GMT

@excpa wrote:
I'm 77(and a half) and stopped taking prescription meds about 3 or 4 years ago when I stopped going to a primary care provider. I still see an opthamologist at least once a year. When I finally came to accept that they just kept adding meds without re-evaluating the need (and I felt I was being treated as a collection of organs connected to a checkbook) I decided to give it all up. I was taking a statin, 2 blood pressure meds, 2 diabetes meds and I think there were more, but I forget. I was also sent to have all sorts of tests, usually expensive, time consuming and annoying, if not usually invasive. I felt I was not listened to was concerned about drug interactions. None of the medics I went to seemed to be concerned about drug interactions. Strange thing: my health improved greatly, as did my bank balance. My eye doctor asks for my primary care physician and seems to accept (finally) that I don't have one. I told him I had "trust issues" and he seems to agree. I had a fall a few months back and found my blood pressure was in the low-normal range, without meds. My diabetes has not progressed and appears to have improved. I don't know what my cholesterol is doing and I really don't care.

I will (probably) seek medical help for an injury, but the idea of being tied down to some medical regimen that is not based on ME just doesn't appeal. I did it for many, many years (40+) but no more. I'm too old to die young and I really hate the modern medical climate that insists you meet some non-objective standard of measurements. I object to being given anti-depressants and refuse them. Since when do people not have the right to their emotions? Why is everyone expected to be happy all the time? Why is everyone so afraid of death? (I'm not a fan of pain, but don't want to become adicted to some opioid medication.) I rarely excercise, eat poorly and live a quiet, contemplative life.

And I wonder a lot. Ads for meds are followed by ads from lawyers wanting to represent you after you take the meds. Ads for foods are followed by ads for weight loss plans. I don't know what it all means.

Don't know if this is what you wanted to know (or why you wanted to know) but I hope it helps.

@excpa

Yay! Good for you, you truly deserve a medal and I mean that 100%!!! I do not believe medications cure us, or keep us alive, especially when there is a new one every week . . . or several, with all of these goofy names, and long, exhausting warning labels that often include the same symptoms and illnesses that one already has!!

Big Pharma is nothing but a racket with the FDA's stamp of approval. I am 79 (as of January) and have many autoimmune diseases including RA, Hashimoto's, Sjogren's Disease, and other autoimmune issues, plus severe osteoporosis (aggravated by one of the meds I take). I take three meds when I have been prescribed at least 20. I refuse to take them and doctors lose interest in me. One goes to the doctor (any specialty, it doesn't matter which one) and within twelve minutes leave with one to three prescriptions. If I even accept them, I don't fill them. If I do occasionally fill one, I take one or two and by that time feel sicker than I was before I took them. I give the rest of them to my daughter who works as an IT in a hospital network and she disposes of them there.

One doctor put me on a HBP med and I started to have side effects, muscular pain (I have enough with joint pain). So I then went to my PCP who changed it to another HBP med which also gave me side effects. They both had my records which indicated I had been taking ibuprofen for RA pain for several years. Neither of them thought to take me off the ibuprofen . . . which was causing the HBP!! I finally took myself to the "dreaded" Internet and read about ibuprofen, took myself off both the HBP med and the ibuprofen. Within one week I had no side effects and . . . NO HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE!!! In fact, ever since, my HBP has been on the low normal side, usually around 112/68 . . . perfect by today's standards. That's been for three years now.

There's a lot of criticism on this BB toward folks like you and me and you may not get it, but I probably will. However, you are doing the right thing, you have my full support!