Bad Medication

Introduction
This section deals with medications and such that have received a bad rap. This is for my personal information only and is not intended to sway anyone elses opinion on medication use.

This is the problem I have with drugs.
1. Drugs almost always work by suppressing a hormone or function in your body, and in practice, this will be bad for your body 100% of the time. Your body was made to produce certain hormones and substances in response to certain conditions in the body. For example, a virus entering your body will trigger your body to create killer cells that seek out and destroy the virus. The thing is, if your body is being overrun by a disease, or your body is creating excess hormones, you should be looking to the cause of this, which may be lack of sleep, nutrition, excercise, oxygen, heavy metal toxicity, EMF poisoning, etc.
2. Drug companies are unethical. It is common for drug companies to know about dangerous side effects of their drugs and then try to cover them up, mislead doctors and patients over safety information, and over-state any possible positives.
3. Drugs have a list of side effects often more dangerous than the original health problem. The result, you start to increase the number of meds you are taking to combat those side effects. Unfortunately the extra drugs also have side effects and eventually you will put yourself into an early grave. My philosophy is that although I dont know the answer to every disease and bodily problem, your body is able to heal itself under the right conditions. I believe in looking for natural treatments for healing and maintaining health.

Painkillers
Source: http://www.theage.com.au/national/painkiller-linked-to-stroke-20100913-159h7.html

Here are some of my favourite quotes from this article: -

“The study found diclofenac, increased the risk of stroke by 86 per cent in people not previously thought to be at risk.”

''There is no good reason why diclofenac should stay on the market, but drug regulation authorities have not taken it on as an issue,'' he said.”

“A spokeswoman for the Therapeutic Goods Administration said it had received eight reports of heart attacks and one of angina in patients taking diclofenac where a causal association was suspected”

These are the results of an 8 year study performed on over 2.6 million Danes who had a prescription for non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. The above quotes show just how dangerous drugs can stay on the market for a long time. One quote in particular above suggests that the TGA also appears to be relatively unconcerned about this. If this were a natural supplement having this impact I think it would not take long for them to withdraw it from the market. My biggest concern however is this. How many drugs are still on the market that are dangerous to the individuals taking them, and simply have not been studied long enough to determine their safety (or lack of).

Here is the response from the drug company. Quote from the article.

"A spokeswoman from Novartis Australia, which makes Voltaren, said the company did not believe the findings altered the benefit-to-risk assessment for diclofenac."

Are we really so gullible to believe this junk? So death is a risk worth taking so long as you get rid of that headache? I think a more reasonable approach would be to figure out why your head is giving you those aches than pretend it is not there with a drug that doubles your risk of stroke.

“Another drug in the same class, ibuprofen, sold as Nurofen and Advil, was linked to a 30 per cent increased risk of stroke when more than 1200 milligrams were taken.”

This is in regards to a commonly used painkiller called Nurofen. My belief is that poison is poison at all levels of intake. So any amount less than the amount prescribed above also presents a risk, maybe just a lower risk. So here is my recommendation. Don't use painkillers if you can live with the pain! In my way of thinking, they are a last resort only.

Osteoporosis Drugs
Just read recently about a class of osteoporosis medications called
bisphosphonates (which includes Boniva, Fosamax, and Actonel). These drugs are meant to strengthen bones. Appears to have quite a different effect however. Nearly 1000 cases were brough against Merck when womens jawbones started to become "moth-eaten". The drug is also associated with bone necrosis where "bone tissue is starved of blood and begins to collapse". Scary. To make it worse, the drug is also supposed to double your risk of esophageal cancer with long term use.

Not just an increased risk, actually -- the risk seems to be doubled
with long-term use, defined as over five years of use or having 10
prescriptions written for the drugs.

I have recently come across forums where jaw pain appears to be a frequent side effect of these drugs. I would say this is quite likely related. All in all I would say the risk once again does outweigh any potential benefits.

Krystexxa (for treatment of chronic Gout)
This drug is an interesting one. When you look at the side effects, you kind of wonder whether you should just live with the condition. The details of the study and side effects is found at http://www.krystexxa.com/pdfs/KRYSTEXXA_Prescribing_Information.pdf.
Side effects include anaphylaxis, gout flares, congestive heart failure, uticaria, dyspnea, chest discomfort, chest pain, erythema, and pruritus. What is scary that there is a significantly high rate of people who suffer these conditions. All contained in the report.

Diet pills cause stroke
My question is, how did a drug like this get approved in the first place? Here is the article:http://www.watoday.com.au/national/popular-diet-pill-banned-after-links-to-heart-attacks-strokes-20101009-16d38.html?from=age_ft.
And now the name: Sibutramine which is sold as Reductil by pharmaceutical group Abbot. The ironic thing is that drug companies still think they can unnaturally suppress bodily functions and acheive a good outcome. The only way they achieve good outcomes is in their own drug trials and that is by manipulating the results.

Monsanto
This is a reference to the article http://www.naturalnews.com/029325_Monsanto_deception.html

Idiots
I couldn't think of a better title for this. California is looking to approve methyl iodide for use on strawberries. This dangerous substance is used in the lab to induce cancer, and can also cause brain damage and miscarriages. See
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jun/28/health/la-he-closer-strawberries-pesticide-20100628 for more details.