Medical treatment/therapy you've refused- for yourself or your loved ones
By sylviekitty
@sylviekitty (2083)
United States
February 3, 2007 6:18am CST
I'm curious to know how many of us are told that we need a particular medicine or treatment/surgery to keep us going, but for whatever reason, we've gone against the doctor's wishes.. and for better or worse, are still here to tell the tale? (Maybe you even knew better than they did??)
Also, the same applies for therapy for an injury, or disability. Part of me is asking this because my son has Autism, and behavioral issues that have caused a lot of people to ask me if he is doing ABA therapy (behavioral intervention). This is VERY expensive therapy, for starters. Secondly, I have seen my cousin (who has Autism) spend most of his waking hours in some sort of therapy, and I swore to myself before I had kids that this wasn't what I wanted for my child- where the heck is there any fun?! A kid (no matter what his disability is) should be allowed some fun. And my cousin didn't seem to get much of it. I'm just on the fence about it.
So have any of you held off on medicine, treatment, therapy- or had to make the decision for a loved one, for one reason or another?
2 responses
@Thoroughrob (11742)
• United States
3 Feb 07
My son has CP and they tried to put him on ritlin, to help him concentrate. I said no. Don't need any further problems. He already goes to speech, pt, and ot therapies. They also wanted to do a spinal Rhizotomy?, but could not tell me if he would be able to stand up afterwards. No way, at lest he can helpwith transfers now and is weight bearing.
@sylviekitty (2083)
• United States
3 Feb 07
I've never heard of a spinal Rhizotomy. But anything having to do with the spine sounds painful. I say if they can't tell you if they can stand up after something like that, it's better to think twice about it.
@rainbow (6761)
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3 Feb 07
I know what you mean. I was told that due to problems with my ovaries I would never concieve without fertility treatment but managed to while on the pill which controlled my period and again oafer just one month of half hearted trying.
I stopped taking my anti-depressants and painkillers and felt much better.
I stopped Bong taking equasium for his ADHD and he calmed down. I had to trty it to see if it helped him but it seemed to make him worse so I stopped it, my GP was not pleased!
