More lives could be saved if doctors considered giving blood pressure drugs to all patients at high risk of heart disease – even if their blood pressures are normal, a study suggests.
Fuck off.
A couple of years back, I had a minor health scare when my blood pressure was high during a routine work medical and I was referred to my GP. She put me on blood pressure medication. Thing is, the whole matter was nothing more than white coat syndrome. My BP is on the high side of normal. The meds made me feel dreadful. Cramps and a general feeling of awfulness, headaches and tiredness. On top of the prostate meds, which I do need, that was enough to make me stop taking them. I have no plans to resume.
Once again, it seems that the medical profession wants to have us all popping tablets. I want to stop popping them. They make me ill.
The authors do not go as far as to suggest everyone should be given pills and caution side-effects of medication must be weighed up.
Give it time…
And the authors’ connection to Pfizer et all is ……………………………?
Happy xmas longy and thanks for all your posts this year. Hope 2016 is a good one for you.
Merry Christmas!
Interesting. I too suffer from prostatism. No big deal – one capsule per day of tamusolin. Old age has its compensations.
It’s time that our elected representatives came to understand to what extent the Health Zealots are screwing up our perceptions of what life is all about. People who are not ill do not need medication; people who are ill, in whatever way, do need medication.
Our prostatism is a precise example. No one who does not suffer from that condition needs medication for it. There is no argument for ‘just in case’ medication.
There is a huge need for the Health Industry to be regulated. It has become poisonous.
If you take your own BP regularly you can titrate the dosage of whatever BP pills you are on.
BP can give you a stroke one day. Being paralysed is not fun.
It’s a balance of risks. A relatively small dose made me ill in a very short space of time, so I stopped. There are other ways of reducing blood pressure.
If you think these things are bad, you should try statins. Right evil bastards they are!