Im saddened and angry that vets are ridiculed. My step father was such a vet. His hearing was damaged due to war time activity. In his older age he turned off his hearing aids to block out the world, back ground noise actually. We knew to step into his line of sight to get his attention.

That's why suffering veterans are not getting help for depression.
They don't want to be black listed. So we have an epidemic of veterans committing suicide. Several per day!

Im ready to make my son read all this before he signs up for duty.

The worst part is how those Red Flag laws could be used against not just the veterans but against the population by any false and secret accusation, with out any recourse and in violation of due process....

I was shocked when I discovered my husband's beloved aunt was still on statins, even though she had a terminal cancer diagnosis. We convinced her husband to stop them, and she regained her ability to speak and walk! Giving her more last moments with her loved ones.

Of course, the doctors said, before and after, that it was the chemo. And she needed the statins.

That's the kind of doctoring we do not need. The right to refuse it should be protected.

This past year or two was focused on research, and I learned a lot about drug side effects.

My autoimmune disorder arose because I had been reacting to high levels of stress for so long my body was literally in a panic mode which never ended. In sheer self-defense my body was no longer reacting to the overabundance of cortisol. But this also meant my cells never let enough in to experience its healing power.

That's a medical explanation I used to get better.

The official medical explanation is that the immune system is this baffling thing that gets easily confused and attacks the body as well as the threat, so (armed with immunosuppressive drugs from transplant research) they started suppressing that misbehaving immune system. Miraculous remissions resulted. Yays?

Nay. The story they don't tell is that, 10-15 years down the line, this personal dice roll can open the door to horrible every-system-fails-at-once kinds of reactions which drops you through a trapdoor of being far worse off, in every single possible way.

I'd call that a side effect.

But how many people know that is a possible side effect? I've seen the ads and it's rare. Yeah. Rare from a Big Pharma point of view.

Doctors also do a poor job of explaining side effects. They depend on the paperwork handed out at the pharmacy, which isnt viewed until AFTER purchase.

The side effects of surgery is also glossed over. Looking back, I would have skipped a couple surgeries due to the long term side effects.

Powerful statins could soon be available over the counter without a prescription

England’s top pharmacist will look at how the cholesterol-lowering drugs could be provided by high street chemists

https://inews.co.uk/news/health/pow...ter-nhs-review/

They don't tell you side effects of diagnostic tests at all! Now, I always ask.

Here. Here.


As for no prescriptions, the price could also go UP when it hits the shelves. No portion covered by insurance.

Too bad methylphenadate is not a no-presription drug; its very hard to get, and has fewer side effects than statins, based on my info.