One Drug Works Or Nothing? WTF

United States
April 25, 2012 3:43pm CST
I do not understand people. i dont know how many people i know that if they have a health problem (seems more common if its a mental health issues) that if they try ONE medication and they have a bad reaction or it doesnt work then ALL MEDICATION must NOT work OR they DO NOT have ANYTHING wrong with them. wtf. if that was true we would only have one medication per illness and not dozens upon dozens for everything! i as most know have a lot of health issues ranging all over the place including mental but also pain,asthma etc and i have probably gone through 100 medications to find the mix im on right now that works. you dont just stop or think your cured. another ridiculous thing that blows my mind is the fact that people think that if they have a relative that took a medication and had a "reaction" to it then it MUST be in their DNA that they will too.. i even asked my doc one time due to i was going to be on pain medication demerol and that was the medication my mom was allergic to that stopped her breathing and they said its not like that at all and i had no problem taking it but i was only worried that time just because it had made my mom stop breathing and it was a pain med not just a normal run of the mill med with a few funky side affects.. its like people will just make up anything to get out of taking a medication. medicine isnt fun of course and yeah you can go the all natural route and if that works GREAT! but the people im talking about dont even think they have a problem to where that (all natural) would work if prescriptions dont because it proves they dont have it etc. i wonder if they break a bone or have a painful injury and the pain med doesnt work that that proves they dont have a broken bone? ignorance goes both ways... AGAIN i am not promoting medication or saying im against any all natural treatments i am AGAINST people that have the mindset that they are fine if ONE treatment doesnt work or refuses treatment using stupid scapegoats.. you guys know anyone like this?
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Eucalyptus
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28 Apr 12
I think that when a lot of people try a medication and have bad side effects that it's only natural to think that it obviously doesn't agree with you and that you don't want to go through anything like that again. When I was 14 I started taking a medication and it put me in hospital. I took another med from that same group of medicines and again, it had me hospitalised. I took another from that group and I turned into a zombie! I swore to myself that it was this group of medications and that they didn't work and I'd never try one again. There's about 15 in this group - and I had tried three and got I'll all three times. 10 years later I've tried meds from all different groups and I've ended up back on one from the group I tried out first!! I reckon that a lot of it is to do with what you're taking and what for. I've taken painkillers before now and thought weeks later, 'oo I'm not in pain, I must be getting better', only to find out that this wasn't the case and that the painkillers worked! They're funny things!! I've never met someone who didn't believe there was anything wrong with them though...only the opposite