Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Finding Cures!

Incredible news this evening it looks as if they may have found the cause of ALS, Lou Gherig’s Disease! “Moving Pictures Inc. directs more funds to neurological research as a new study from Northwestern University identifying common cause of ALS provides a target for drug therapy, opening the field to possible treatment for neurogenerative diseases characterized by irregular protein accumulation, like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.” Could this mean Multiple Sclerosis may be close behind?
We can only hope…

And I bet you were worried… see don’t worry, be happy!
The worse things get the more we have to take the bits and pieces of good we hear about and make them more important than all the rest!

Good thing that I had a negative reaction to that medication Celexa it made the news tonight as not being an appropriate mix with blood pressure and heart issues, uh oh!
Sometimes I wonder if my doctors look at the medication lists I print out for them!
No wonder it affected me so miserably and mine was the lower dose of on 20 mg, the 40 mg. is supposed to be the more dangerous dose. If I recall it made me so nauseas and dizzier than my Ataxia did and so I found myself having to lie down in bed for quite some time and this was only after three days of taking the prescribed dosage by my neurologist!

Folks we have to be our own advocates and when in doubt, ask the pharmacists since they have immediate access to that information about drug interaction or conflicting or market recall etc. and always listen on the news or when the FDA has taken something off the market. I had an incident with stomach medication a few years ago that was recalled due to it causing heart attacks and strokes and I heard it on the news thankfully!
Because my gastroenterologists office called about a week later to tell me, but oddly enough my GP had given me the prescription initially and the tummy doctor knew. Guess what? I never heard a word from the GP who actually prescribed it! Consequently I no longer go to that doctor.

To be honest medication and I have a long history of NOT getting along and that’s why I truly hate being on all the crap that I am now. Being nearly killed by nurse injected meds while in traction for a neck and back injury, in the hospital, gives a person very bad memories that last a lifetime! And that was way back in 1983!

Dad, up there in heaven didn’t approve of me using that word hate, but this isn’t of a person its inanimate objects with the power to cure or kill!
Wow, is that profound or what, I ask you?
All I am saying since my major incident way back when and all the other near misses I recall and an elderly neighbor who got so confused with all her medications that she took them all at once and ended up killing her self, so buyer beware and diligent to ask questions too!

On that note of me goofing up on my own knowing what to do but not doing it…Allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

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