Guest guest Posted September 30, 2004 Report Share Posted September 30, 2004 Dear Gertie: I'm so very sorry to hear about your mother's death. Please accept my condolences. I know this must be a very difficult time, and a great loss to you. You and your family are in my prayers. " Blind Reason " a novel of pharmaceutical intrigue Think your antidepressant is safe? Think again. It's Unsafe At Any Dose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 30, 2004 Report Share Posted September 30, 2004 Thanks, Glitter, she died within the hour, after the end of the day of her 94th birthday-- she was in terrific pain, and it was a blessing to her to go home to her Maker. Imagine -- 94 years on this earth, lived through the Great Depression, and two world wars; had her husband off in India during W.W.II, while she was home in the USA with a baby, a little boy, and rationing; raised two kids; had a son who was lost to the family; suffered from painful arthritis all through her body -- and never needed an antidepressant! gertie Re: Gertie Dear Gertie: I'm so very sorry to hear about your mother's death. Please accept my condolences. I know this must be a very difficult time, and a great loss to you. You and your family are in my prayers. " Blind Reason " a novel of pharmaceutical intrigue Think your antidepressant is safe? Think again. It's Unsafe At Any Dose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 30, 2004 Report Share Posted September 30, 2004 Thanks, Glitter, she died within the hour, after the end of the day of her 94th birthday-- she was in terrific pain, and it was a blessing to her to go home to her Maker. Imagine -- 94 years on this earth, lived through the Great Depression, and two world wars; had her husband off in India during W.W.II, while she was home in the USA with a baby, a little boy, and rationing; raised two kids; had a son who was lost to the family; suffered from painful arthritis all through her body -- and never needed an antidepressant! gertie Re: Gertie Dear Gertie: I'm so very sorry to hear about your mother's death. Please accept my condolences. I know this must be a very difficult time, and a great loss to you. You and your family are in my prayers. " Blind Reason " a novel of pharmaceutical intrigue Think your antidepressant is safe? Think again. It's Unsafe At Any Dose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 8, 2004 Report Share Posted November 8, 2004 In a message dated 11/8/04 3:41:15 PM Mountain Standard Time, SSRI medications writes: > I'm the last person to be looking for a drug to take, but I would rather > take warfarin than have a stroke Oh, jeez, Gertie, I am sorry to hear that, but glad that the drug at least allows you to carry on. I;m knocking on wood right now that I do'nt get anything that would require drug treatment as I would probably die for fear of taking the drugs. Sheesh. " Blind Reason " a novel of pharmaceutical intrigue Think your antidepressant is safe? Think again. It's Unsafe At Any Dose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 8, 2004 Report Share Posted November 8, 2004 In a message dated 11/8/04 3:41:15 PM Mountain Standard Time, SSRI medications writes: > I'm the last person to be looking for a drug to take, but I would rather > take warfarin than have a stroke Oh, jeez, Gertie, I am sorry to hear that, but glad that the drug at least allows you to carry on. I;m knocking on wood right now that I do'nt get anything that would require drug treatment as I would probably die for fear of taking the drugs. Sheesh. " Blind Reason " a novel of pharmaceutical intrigue Think your antidepressant is safe? Think again. It's Unsafe At Any Dose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 8, 2004 Report Share Posted November 8, 2004 In a message dated 11/8/04 3:41:15 PM Mountain Standard Time, SSRI medications writes: > I'm the last person to be looking for a drug to take, but I would rather > take warfarin than have a stroke Oh, jeez, Gertie, I am sorry to hear that, but glad that the drug at least allows you to carry on. I;m knocking on wood right now that I do'nt get anything that would require drug treatment as I would probably die for fear of taking the drugs. Sheesh. " Blind Reason " a novel of pharmaceutical intrigue Think your antidepressant is safe? Think again. It's Unsafe At Any Dose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 8, 2004 Report Share Posted November 8, 2004 In a message dated 11/8/04 3:41:15 PM Mountain Standard Time, SSRI medications writes: > I'm the last person to be looking for a drug to take, but I would rather > take warfarin than have a stroke Oh, jeez, Gertie, I am sorry to hear that, but glad that the drug at least allows you to carry on. I;m knocking on wood right now that I do'nt get anything that would require drug treatment as I would probably die for fear of taking the drugs. Sheesh. " Blind Reason " a novel of pharmaceutical intrigue Think your antidepressant is safe? Think again. It's Unsafe At Any Dose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 8, 2004 Report Share Posted November 8, 2004 I don't blame you, Glitter, for feeling that way. But we do what we have to, when faced with some of the stuff we never planned on. I ended up in the hospital in 1990, facing open-heart surgery. Never, in my life, prior to that, would I have ever thought that I would let anybody cut me open, and here I was, facing having my breastbone sawed open, my ribs retracted, and my heart actually removed from my body, while a machine pumped blood and breathed for me. And it was a piece of cake. Relatively speaking. I had a 13 year old daughter who was the light of my life, and I would have walked over burning coal barefoot to protect her and get her raised to where she could be independent. I wasn't about to die and leave her, and letting them saw me open and fix my heart was the only way to stick around and keep on being her mom. She'll graduate from K-State Veterinary school in May, and be a bona fide horse doctor, and it was all worth it. So, if you have a genuine medical need, and drugs can make your life possible, you will be able to handle it. I was taken off the transplant list by Coreg (a more specific beta-blocker than the earlier ones) taken with Aldactone and Monopril. (And those are in addition to the digitalis and the water pills and the potassium preparation to put back some of what the diuretic takes out, and the warfarin, that screws up my diet.) And maybe by the intercession of Our Lady of Pochaev, whose Wonderworking Icon was at St. Tikkhon's Seminary in May of the same year I began the new drug regimen. We traveled up there Memorial Day weekend, to attend Divine Liturgy and pray to Our Lady in front of that icon. I had my cross blessed and touched to the icon, and wore it every day since. Something worked, because I was terminated from the transplant program nine months later, and now have an ejection fraction of 40 to 45%, instead of 15%. (That's how much of the blood in the ventricle gets pushed along by a contraction of the heart) Can't complain. I don't love the drugs, but I take the drugs, and I eat and use supplements designed to support my health, and avoid stuff like tobacco and aspartame and sugar, and exercise at a reasonable level for me, and if you had to, Glitter, you would do it too. Gertie Re: Gertie In a message dated 11/8/04 3:41:15 PM Mountain Standard Time, SSRI medications writes: > I'm the last person to be looking for a drug to take, but I would rather > take warfarin than have a stroke Oh, jeez, Gertie, I am sorry to hear that, but glad that the drug at least allows you to carry on. I;m knocking on wood right now that I do'nt get anything that would require drug treatment as I would probably die for fear of taking the drugs. Sheesh. " Blind Reason " a novel of pharmaceutical intrigue Think your antidepressant is safe? Think again. It's Unsafe At Any Dose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 8, 2004 Report Share Posted November 8, 2004 I don't blame you, Glitter, for feeling that way. But we do what we have to, when faced with some of the stuff we never planned on. I ended up in the hospital in 1990, facing open-heart surgery. Never, in my life, prior to that, would I have ever thought that I would let anybody cut me open, and here I was, facing having my breastbone sawed open, my ribs retracted, and my heart actually removed from my body, while a machine pumped blood and breathed for me. And it was a piece of cake. Relatively speaking. I had a 13 year old daughter who was the light of my life, and I would have walked over burning coal barefoot to protect her and get her raised to where she could be independent. I wasn't about to die and leave her, and letting them saw me open and fix my heart was the only way to stick around and keep on being her mom. She'll graduate from K-State Veterinary school in May, and be a bona fide horse doctor, and it was all worth it. So, if you have a genuine medical need, and drugs can make your life possible, you will be able to handle it. I was taken off the transplant list by Coreg (a more specific beta-blocker than the earlier ones) taken with Aldactone and Monopril. (And those are in addition to the digitalis and the water pills and the potassium preparation to put back some of what the diuretic takes out, and the warfarin, that screws up my diet.) And maybe by the intercession of Our Lady of Pochaev, whose Wonderworking Icon was at St. Tikkhon's Seminary in May of the same year I began the new drug regimen. We traveled up there Memorial Day weekend, to attend Divine Liturgy and pray to Our Lady in front of that icon. I had my cross blessed and touched to the icon, and wore it every day since. Something worked, because I was terminated from the transplant program nine months later, and now have an ejection fraction of 40 to 45%, instead of 15%. (That's how much of the blood in the ventricle gets pushed along by a contraction of the heart) Can't complain. I don't love the drugs, but I take the drugs, and I eat and use supplements designed to support my health, and avoid stuff like tobacco and aspartame and sugar, and exercise at a reasonable level for me, and if you had to, Glitter, you would do it too. Gertie Re: Gertie In a message dated 11/8/04 3:41:15 PM Mountain Standard Time, SSRI medications writes: > I'm the last person to be looking for a drug to take, but I would rather > take warfarin than have a stroke Oh, jeez, Gertie, I am sorry to hear that, but glad that the drug at least allows you to carry on. I;m knocking on wood right now that I do'nt get anything that would require drug treatment as I would probably die for fear of taking the drugs. Sheesh. " Blind Reason " a novel of pharmaceutical intrigue Think your antidepressant is safe? Think again. It's Unsafe At Any Dose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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