Wellness

[NorthernLights]

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@cherry wrote:

Any thing comes with risks. I am still dealing with stomach issues brought on by taking asprin

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It seems like everything has a risk reward ratio along with it. I take an aspirin every day as a blood thinner (for a stroke) as prescribed. It brought on ulcers which I'm taking medication for. I had no idea what aspirin could do to your stomach and duodenum. 

One interesting thing I heard about aspirin from a medical professional was that since companies started advertising about things like that you can mitigate the risk of heart attacks and such, people started taking them much more. And one thing they noticed was an increase in micro-bleed type brain injuries? Not quite sure if I'm saying that right, but my point is something as supposedly banal as aspirin can in it's own way be somewhat dangerous. I do a lot more reading about anything I take anymore. Even over the counter items.

[haddon9]

It is scary to hear about all of the possible nasty side effects of most medications.  Yet one never hears about any serious side effects (except for a sore arm) from vaccines.  Why is that?  Are they really so much safer than an aspirin?

[NorthernLights]

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@haddon9 wrote:

It is scary to hear about all of the possible nasty side effects of most medications.  Yet one never hears about any serious side effects (except for a sore arm) from vaccines.  Why is that?  Are they really so much safer than an aspirin?

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I hear a lot about people who are stridently anti-vaccine. A lot of them believe that the rise in autism rates among children come from them. 

Personally I'll take the 'chance' of autism over the possibility of my child getting something as serious as say, polio. 

[haddon9]

@NorthernLights . Just like there are all kinds of prescription medications there are all kinds of vaccines....some are very good but I question some others. When my kids were little they got all of their vaccines but they got a much lower number than children are given today.  I think today it might be a bit of overkill.....and not always healthy.

[NorthernLights]

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@haddon9 wrote:

@NorthernLights . Just like there are all kinds of prescription medications there are all kinds of vaccines....some are very good but I question some others. When my kids were little they got all of their vaccines but they got a much lower number than children are given today.  I think today it might be a bit of overkill.....and not always healthy.

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There is definitely a lot more research that needs to be done in this area about possible complications of vaccines. But like with different medications it ends up coming down to that risk reward ratio. It's not always an easy choice any way you go.

[haddon9]

@NorthernLights . No it certainly isn't an easy chocie!

[Jackhound Mom]

@LilacTree

I'm sorry to hear your antibiotic didn't work and pray that you will heal from this!  My vision is not the best but I can always recognize you as you have a beautiful smile and kind face!

Blessings & healing,

Cat

[LilacTree]

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@Jackhound Mom wrote:

@LilacTree

I'm sorry to hear your antibiotic didn't work and pray that you will heal from this!  My vision is not the best but I can always recognize you as you have a beautiful smile and kind face!

Blessings & healing,

Cat

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@Jackhound Mom

Thank you so much.  That was sweet of you to say.

[sophiamarie]

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@LilacTree wrote:

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@Jackhound Mom wrote:

I keep hearing this disclamer on RX drugs for all kinds of health problems.

"It lowers your ability to fight infections!"  I would not want to lower that  ability.  How can all these medicines do this?

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@Jackhound Mom

Precisely the reason I don't take biologics for my RA, Sjogren's, scleroderma and Hashimoto's.  I do not fight infections well. 

I was just on two weeks of Keflex for a kidney infection.  I took all of the doses (28) and I still have the infection.  Tests tomorrow.

I probably won't die from my autoimmune diseases, but an infection could kill me.

 @LilacTree  Were you diagnosed with a kidney infection or a UTI?  How do you know you still have the infection?  If the Keflex didn't make you feel better by the second day, you should have called the doctor and maybe he would have changed your meds.  It sounds as though you were on the wrong antibiotic.  Your "symptoms" should have been gone the same day if you took AZO.

I'm not sure how a kidney infection is diagnosed.  A UTI is usually treated with Bactrim for starters and after the lab results come back, you either stay on it, or the doctor changes it.  JMO

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[LilacTree]

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@sophiamarie wrote:

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@LilacTree wrote:

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@Jackhound Mom wrote:

I keep hearing this disclamer on RX drugs for all kinds of health problems.

"It lowers your ability to fight infections!"  I would not want to lower that  ability.  How can all these medicines do this?

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@Jackhound Mom

Precisely the reason I don't take biologics for my RA, Sjogren's, scleroderma and Hashimoto's.  I do not fight infections well. 

I was just on two weeks of Keflex for a kidney infection.  I took all of the doses (28) and I still have the infection.  Tests tomorrow.

I probably won't die from my autoimmune diseases, but an infection could kill me.

 @LilacTree  Were you diagnosed with a kidney infection or a UTI?  How do you know you still have the infection?  If the Keflex didn't make you feel better by the second day, you should have called the doctor and maybe he would have changed your meds.  It sounds as though you were on the wrong antibiotic.  Your "symptoms" should have been gone the same day if you took AZO.

I'm not sure how a kidney infection is diagnosed.  A UTI is usually treated with Bactrim for starters and after the lab results come back, you either stay on it, or the doctor changes it.  JMO

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@sophiamarie

I believed and did what I was told to do.