Weaning Ourselves Off Of Our Medicines

January 27, 2002

I have a question... Why are some of you (us) trying to stop taking your

medicines? Are you having liver problems

or something else which is making it hard on your bodies to take your medicines?

Is it a matter of the money?

I don't understand... On top of having Fibro, I have Bipolar, and arthritis &

asthma & bronchitis, & IBS, etc, etc,e tc,

I can't even GET the medicines I need. I Used to get them, I used to be married

& had insurance,

But since I've been divorced, I only get medicines IF I can afford them. I was

recently told that

I Will get SSI, but, I was Also told that I will only have 3 medicines paid for

per month. My Bipolar & Mental health

medicines are FIVE, alone. Four of them I get from the local Mental health

Place, but, naturally,

They want me to start using my 3 *free* meds with them ASAP. And, why not? My

medicines are

costing them literaly Hundreds of dollars per month! Yet, that leaves my

breathing meds, and my muscle spasm meds...

At one poit I had been put on So Many medicines I Did have to cut back, because

Doctors decided I *took too many* medicines.

Yet, each & every One addressed a seperate issue.

I went tthrough YEARS & YEARS of trying herbal medicines & teas. They were not

as effective as

prescriptions. And, in the long run, are nerely as expensive.

I have *been forced* due to running out of meds, and having no money, to do

without. I don't like it.

I haven't had my hormones in almost a full yr now, because I had to pick between

muscle spasms, breathing, axiety, or hormones....

And, I KNOW if I had my hormones it would *help* the other stuff, too.

So, Why are some of us weaning ourselves from our meds? Are you doing this under

doctors care? Alone? Under whose advice?

Wondering....

" There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a

miracle. The other is as though

everything is a miracle. " ~Albert Einstein~

I'm not Chuck. I'm not even a man. I'm just stuck in this body. 8^0

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