What are you talking about? I haven't seen any effects on my prescription costs except for the price reduction on generic Pradaxa. There are no "lifestyle" corrections for blood coagulation tendencies. I have a repaired mitral valve and any clotting would be highly dangerous. During surgery, I had heparin-induced thrombocytopenia, which resulted in three clots and anemia, and had to stay in hospital for 19 days. "Staking your life" is cheap rhetoric. I was staking my life for real. And it was up and down with warfarin, and another alternative, and finally Pradaxa. So, if you think you know better how to deal with my case, become a cardiovascular doctor and set up a practice. You sure as hell would not have known how to conduct the surgery.
The subject was the cost of pharmaceuticals, not your vest pocket second opinion of my situation.
Very sorry to hear about your problems, but the fact of the matter is that most health problems can be prevented or helped by having a healthy life style.
Eating a healthy diet, not smoking, exercising regularly, controlling stress.
These are all proven to drastically reduce the chances of developing severe health problems like you describe.
Like I said before, and like you reinforced in your last post, I'm sure that you believe that your case is unique and you had no choice but to have to take medication.
There's no need for you to get all hyperdefensive about why you have so many health problems.
It's amazing how often I see conversations about how personal responsibility is dying off and that if people just did what they were supposed to do and not be fat slobs sitting on a computer all day, chain smoking and gobbling down junk food, then people wouldn't need all these pills they take.
But whenever I point out to someone talking about their health problems that it's better to prevent health issues rather than just perpetually treat them, I get stuff like this with people acting like they had no choice in life but to have to take pharmaceuticals all the time.
It's a definite case of "Rules for thee, not rules for me!", I think.
I'm sorry it seems to be too late for you, personally, but it's still a valid point for life, in general.
I'm a mature person and am taking care of my health, but you are out in space if you think that living habits control blood coagulation chemistry. A flailing mitral valve appears, in my family, to be a hereditary condition, announced prior to the failure by an onset of heart murmur. It all went very fast and had no relationship to my health, which was in good shape at the time. NOTHING is predictive of the tendency to HIT, nor can it be affected by diet.
There was one problem. Please don't magnify it for the sake of polemics. And unless you can stipulate a specific alternative to blood thinners, you are talking through your hat. I have thrown off a number of prescribed medications for different problems because they treated the symptom, not the problem, and I have gone outside of conventional medicine to get results. (E.g., krill oil for peripheral edema, chiropractic, acupuncture, endocrinological monitoring.) I have been in good health with a good diet for most of my life. I was a horseman and a walker. You have a nerve to insinuate I am somehow a layabout with reckless disconcern for how I live.
And you are full of it to think "it is too late" for me. I don't think that way at all. It will be my pleasure to outlive you, as much as it is a sorrow for me to have outlived others.
What has "design" to do with anything? Obviously, a healthy life leads to a healthy life. That is a trivial truism. I try my best to do that. But you come down with some debilitating problems that baffle your doctors and interfere with your own mental acuity and energy, and then see how that works out. I'm not saying that drugs are any cure, because they haven't been and probably won't be. But I am looking into supplements for brain, liver, and gut. Also, have fun with atrial fibrillation and flutter if they intrude on your life. Surgery is about the only way to eliminate them. Good luck on living a healthy life. It is not always under your control. I've attended funerals of too many friends who lived healthy lives (which is no argument against a healthy life---just that it does not make you invulnerable).
Which "it" are you thinking of? You mentioned 4+. I don't have time to wander through the literature on every approach. I am thankful to receive references to specific information on ivermectin. And some have been kindly provided by now.
What are you talking about? I haven't seen any effects on my prescription costs except for the price reduction on generic Pradaxa. There are no "lifestyle" corrections for blood coagulation tendencies. I have a repaired mitral valve and any clotting would be highly dangerous. During surgery, I had heparin-induced thrombocytopenia, which resulted in three clots and anemia, and had to stay in hospital for 19 days. "Staking your life" is cheap rhetoric. I was staking my life for real. And it was up and down with warfarin, and another alternative, and finally Pradaxa. So, if you think you know better how to deal with my case, become a cardiovascular doctor and set up a practice. You sure as hell would not have known how to conduct the surgery.
The subject was the cost of pharmaceuticals, not your vest pocket second opinion of my situation.
Very sorry to hear about your problems, but the fact of the matter is that most health problems can be prevented or helped by having a healthy life style.
Eating a healthy diet, not smoking, exercising regularly, controlling stress.
These are all proven to drastically reduce the chances of developing severe health problems like you describe.
Like I said before, and like you reinforced in your last post, I'm sure that you believe that your case is unique and you had no choice but to have to take medication.
There's no need for you to get all hyperdefensive about why you have so many health problems.
It's amazing how often I see conversations about how personal responsibility is dying off and that if people just did what they were supposed to do and not be fat slobs sitting on a computer all day, chain smoking and gobbling down junk food, then people wouldn't need all these pills they take.
But whenever I point out to someone talking about their health problems that it's better to prevent health issues rather than just perpetually treat them, I get stuff like this with people acting like they had no choice in life but to have to take pharmaceuticals all the time.
It's a definite case of "Rules for thee, not rules for me!", I think.
I'm sorry it seems to be too late for you, personally, but it's still a valid point for life, in general.
I'm a mature person and am taking care of my health, but you are out in space if you think that living habits control blood coagulation chemistry. A flailing mitral valve appears, in my family, to be a hereditary condition, announced prior to the failure by an onset of heart murmur. It all went very fast and had no relationship to my health, which was in good shape at the time. NOTHING is predictive of the tendency to HIT, nor can it be affected by diet.
There was one problem. Please don't magnify it for the sake of polemics. And unless you can stipulate a specific alternative to blood thinners, you are talking through your hat. I have thrown off a number of prescribed medications for different problems because they treated the symptom, not the problem, and I have gone outside of conventional medicine to get results. (E.g., krill oil for peripheral edema, chiropractic, acupuncture, endocrinological monitoring.) I have been in good health with a good diet for most of my life. I was a horseman and a walker. You have a nerve to insinuate I am somehow a layabout with reckless disconcern for how I live.
And you are full of it to think "it is too late" for me. I don't think that way at all. It will be my pleasure to outlive you, as much as it is a sorrow for me to have outlived others.
Again, you are missing the point. I'm not sure if it's by design or not.
Either way, good luck on all that.
What has "design" to do with anything? Obviously, a healthy life leads to a healthy life. That is a trivial truism. I try my best to do that. But you come down with some debilitating problems that baffle your doctors and interfere with your own mental acuity and energy, and then see how that works out. I'm not saying that drugs are any cure, because they haven't been and probably won't be. But I am looking into supplements for brain, liver, and gut. Also, have fun with atrial fibrillation and flutter if they intrude on your life. Surgery is about the only way to eliminate them. Good luck on living a healthy life. It is not always under your control. I've attended funerals of too many friends who lived healthy lives (which is no argument against a healthy life---just that it does not make you invulnerable).
I've seen a lot of wonderful claims being made for ivermectin, laetrile, hydrogen peroxide, colloidal silver, etc...
Maybe you could read some of the many, many posts around here discussing how it cures every thing from cold sores to colon cancer.
Just a thought. 👍
Which "it" are you thinking of? You mentioned 4+. I don't have time to wander through the literature on every approach. I am thankful to receive references to specific information on ivermectin. And some have been kindly provided by now.