You know Sue, I have had severe reactions to meds for years.
But the only solution is to keep trying. We (and doctors) never know
which ones will work for each person.
Sometimes they just prescribe what they prescribe for others and there's
other meds that might be better to try.

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Here A Drug, There A Drug, Everywhere A Drug Drug (non-working or
harmful drugs)

PHARMA-McDenials owns the "farm" (medical system), E-Ouch, E-Ouch,
Ohhhhh

The Past:  Yes, the docs told me this too (buy & try drugs, many more
drugs), & they kept me sick & weak from side effects, & financially
broke & in debt for many years.   I was required to buy & try one drug
after another (many dozens of psych drugs & others), ... only in order
to qualify for referral to abuse counselling in the future (which proved
a lie).  ???

This was while I was desperately trying to survive the birth-family
abuse, ... & while I kept requesting & seeking abuse counselling &
support only.  [They (the docs & psychs)were playing bad games (such as
bait & switch), ... for which I hope to one day sue them in court, to
legally stomp & financially gut them, & to have them imprisoned.]  

These are Very serious crimes & meanness, which the worst doctors &
psychs are doing.  Very destructive!  

[Why can't people address these things, these crimes & the harm done, &
feel outraged & angry about them, ... instead of advocating we buy & try
even more drugs, when so many haven't worked already, when they're a
rip-off?]

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Alternatives To Drugs

I'd rather work to learn about nutrition, supplements, exercise,
checking out allergies & such, ... rather than waste any more time &
money with trying random drugs for this & that, such as for burping.  

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Bad Drugs On Top Of Bad Drugs

In the past, the drugs usually caused a lot of additional health
problems, while Not helping the original problem at all.  Then, one drug
after another is added, to deal with the problems which the first drugs
are causing, ... while there's no help whatsoever for the original
problem, ... & while the docs keep demanding total trust & blind faith
in their nonsense, in their totally destructive & harmful BS.  ???  This
never made any sense, & still doesn't.

Whenever I'd ask a question or offer a suggestion, the docs would reject
it & act offended.  The Outrage Game.  Yet, their ideas were the worst,
weren't working, & were causing harm over & over.  ???

I had severe adverse reactions to many drugs (to most drugs), ... but
since I had good insurance, the docs kept making me buy & try new drugs,
over & over, ... which kept my health bad, destroyed my quality of life,
left me more vulnerable to the abuse (to crimes & dangers), & kept me in
financial debt for many years.  When I got a small inheritance from an
uncle, the docs took that too.  The docs proved a bottomless pit of
greed, of bad drugs & harm only.

Since I was in severe abuse, I had to get help no matter what, so I kept
trying.

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The Need For Justice

Usually, there was no way possible to get any good health care or
information here, ... because the docs were so busy overly-pushing the
bad drugs (like antidepressants, tranquilizers, high blood pressure
meds, muscle relaxers, pain killers, stomach medicine, etc.), ...
INSTEAD of their dealing with any real health issues or with the abuse.  

The docs treated the abuse & me as a joke & laughable.  And neither they
(nor the PHARMA companies) refunded any of my money, much less
apologized, ... for their gross incompetence, negligence & neglect, &
for their repeatedly doing so much harm.  [We should at least be able to
get our money back from them, ... as well as sue them for the wasted
years & harm done.]  

It does matter that we get some much-needed justice, & that criminals
pay for their crimes.

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The Problems With PHARMA

The Present:  So far, the Arimidex company (Astra-) hasn't contacted me
or my oncologist.  

They don't seem interested in doing the tests necessary, to see why
their drugs harm some people (such as myself) so badly.  Therefore, they
deserve to get sued (& often), ... for the harm that they're knowingly
doing, to some women with ER+ breast cancer, ... & for the permanent
health problems & damage (such as acute lymphedema) which they knowingly
cause.

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Determinedly-Dumbed-Down Docs

I don't think most docs are being trained to do much.  Skill-wise, most
docs seem woefully inadequate & act unable to deal with it, unable to do
the jobs they're hired for.  It's proved very frightening & frustrating.

Susan, Su_Texas  my opinions

PS   Trying Tamoxifen

As far as trying new drugs goes, I got Tamoxifen yesterday.  Unlike the
drugs for burping & such, this one's for cancer.

It's very emotional to try a new drug, & to have it work or fail.  The
negative side effects can cause illness & weakness, & threaten one's
survival, which is serious.

For me, trying Tamoxifen involves serious risk, ... esp. since I've
already had two strokes from the injuries & ongoing lack of medical care
for them.  

This is dangerous.

After I get good cancer care, I've got to get care for the many injuries
which keep getting worse.

I must survive, partly in order to care for the puppies, & to train
them, ... to see that they go to good homes.

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Good & Bad

My oncologist is good & bad, when many docs here are only bad.  

While I'm grateful for the help he's given me, I'm also very hurt by the
harm he's done:  the referral to the butcher surgeon from hell, for the
port-a-cath, & then his abandonment of me afterwards, ... the Arimidex
for a year & a half, which was obviously severely sickening & killing
me, & causing significant (& some lasting) health problems & damage.

It's tough to trust any doctor now.

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Always There To Remind Me

While he didn't refer me to the surgeon in Houston, ... the butchered
breast (part of which is bunched-up under my right arm & uncomfortable,
.. & the rest of the breast, which causes odd mounds under my t-shirts
& gets infected in the skin folds), ...

.. are always there to remind me, of the sleazy & sadistic nature of so
many doctors & surgeons here, ... of the joy they take in doing wrong,
in doing evil things, ... of their clannish-like need to protect &
enable each other (irregardless), ... & of their pride, arrogance &
boastfulness, in doing this.  ???

It hurts!

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So Many Betrayals

This is Not the way things were supposed to be.  It's Not what we're
told & shown by the media, on TV or in movies.  

The medical, legal & govt systems in Texas, have failed.  They've failed
us.