With all the recent celebrities that have died due possibly to medications
@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
United States
January 10, 2010 3:03pm CST
has it made you more paranoid when you fill your meds? i was just prescribed for a chest infection a medication that said it can cause sudden cardiac death in healthy people and the first thing that popped into my mind was brittany murphy dying from cardiac problems (which is still pending on if drugs or medications were involved last i heard) and shes only 4 years older than me! now im not one to read the side affects and freak out thinking i have them all.. with all the medical problems i have had i have gotten used to having to be on medication and some being dangerous (morphine, fentanyl etc) but just the timing of this new one with like brittany murphy and casey johnson (who's autopsy didnt have anything showing either and last i heard they thought cardiac problems too) made you second guess all the medications your on or may be put on??
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@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
10 Jan 10
Nope, because I don't take pills... prescribed or not, I just don't take them. Was raised that way. There's always another alternative.
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
6 Feb 10
ive tried some all natural stuff but considering im allergic to everything that grows seems i have some problems with those.. that and i have so many diff health issues needing their own meds and some natural stuff wont work with meds etc
@danishcanadian (28955)
• Canada
10 Jan 10
Sure some meds have the potential to kill, but remember, we would not be taking these meds (legally) without the doctors who prescribed them. I trust my doctor. He has been a doctor to four generations of my family, and has never done anything to cause a problem. I believe that behind every deadly dose is a doctor to prescribe it, unless the person is taking it without a prescription, at which point it's their own damn fault.
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
6 Feb 10
i have had a lot of good and bad docs and even the good ones had prescribed me stuff that will interact with my other meds.. some that they even gave me! i look up online usually before i try things because i have ended up in the ER because of them being stupid..
@1boerseun (124)
• South Africa
12 Jan 10
It happens too often that doctors prescribe meds that causes side-effects and then have to prescribe medicine that counter these side-effects. Medicine is big business. A few decades ago the World Health Organisation said that, out of the 18000 medicines onm the market only 200 were necessary or useful. Doctors sometimes prescribe pills with no medicinal value, because the cause of some sicknesses is purely mental, so they make a few bucks from that patient and know that the patient will become better. patients tend to have so much faith in doctors and meds that they will recover through the intake of any fake pills the are prescribed for them.
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