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[–]grixitperson 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Telephone visit with my doctor. He said my numbers were good, those pills seem to be working. I said great, but taking those pills makes my stomach uncomfortable. He said, well then, let's add another pill for that.

[–]MarkTwainiac 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Hope you feel better. Unfortunately, your doctor's recommendation to add another pill to counteract the negative, unwanted effects of the other pills he has prescribed illustrates what's wrong with medicine in the era when physicians function as extensions of Big Pharma. One iatrogenic condition caused by one prescription drug or set of drugs leads to a whole host of iatrogenic conditions caused by more drugs added on top of one another to ameliorate the effects of one another. And all the drugs end up working together in ways no one anticipated & which haven't been studied.

Again, hope you feel better.