Tuesday, June 16, 2009

In my opinion some dilemmas are as tough to decipher....

A problem as difficult as any calculus problem would be for someone like me who never ever took a class in calculus. The complicated arduous situation I am referring to is the side effects of prescription medications, even those administered in the hospital by medical professionals. Just tonight another one was taken off the market, and it was not as dangerous as some, this was a nasal spray that side effect removed your ability to smell, just horrible but not a life and death one. I suppose that sounds rather cavalier of me, it would be so sad not to smell perfume or flowers or brownies, and even possibly lethal gas, which would be life and death, although I have been told it, is odorless.

Any-who, most of these drugs that I am referring to will cause things like ulcers, cancer, stroke or heart disease which to me sound just dreadful! And most do have the warnings on the labels or in their commercials on the TV, have you noticed? I suppose most people who need these medications will take the chance with that negative knowledge to control or make better whatever ailment it has been prescribed for that may have terrible affects on their medical well being. I assume most of these people have informed consent, I think that is the legal term anyway.

But then there are people, not unlike myself who do not know anything about what new or even established med has brought to the world of not so great side affects, and then what do you do? Personally, I found out the hard way that I was not a good candidate for two medications while hospitalized way back in 1983 when they nearly killed me. Fortunately, I am here to tell the tale, and now they are prevalent in my medical history, acknowledge as allergic reactions, but were they?
You all must know me pretty well by now that when I want to know something about anything I try real hard to find out everything I can about it, knowledge is power! And even way back then I was the same way, and so I bought a PDR (physician’s desk reference book, my first and only one the new edition for 1984), and there it was under the two culprits that caused me so much grief that what I went through was a possible side effect of each one of them, but only in 1-2% of the population, I guess that meant me.
So it was the common but small chancy side effect, not an allergic reaction, ah so, interesting!
This information has created the leeriness in me all these years, and so what happened to me recently made me delve further into why?
If you have been keeping up with this Blog you would know I am speaking of just one thing…my diabetic reaction to the steroids given to me in the hospital.
Well, being committed to the truth and informing myself about all quizzical interests in that vein I found myself searching for why I was still having symptoms of something that I was told was only temporary.
Mmm, now I have a sneaking suspicion that this is not a correlation that most medicos want to make, that high doses especially IV administered steroids, in latent diabetics, nearly three months later; it may very well cause a permanent disorder.
Hopefully, I will be proven wrong over the next few months, but I am not that sure that will be the case.

On that ominous note I will wish you all a good night and to all count those blessings and I will too!

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