Medications good for so many different cures.
I was given a prescription last week and I was rather taken aback by the warning label which indicated: Not recomended for Women and Children.So I decided to go on the internet and read up on the drug before I decided if the pharmacist or Doctor had made an error and had given me a wrong prescription.
The medication given was FLOMAX, and reading it on the internet it stated it was for Enlarged Prostate. I thought, well thats odd, women don't have prostates for 1 thing and the next thing is that I went in for Kidney Stones. And further more it still stated not Recomended for Women and Children.
Upon further reading it did say it is also given to paitents with kidney stones, but I still had to find out if it was given in error, because if it's not recomended for women, what harm could it do to the female body?
Well I called the pharmicist, who told me that yes it is given to women and men for Kidney Stones, and their are no side effects that can harm a women.
I was happy, but I think the drug company should update their lists so as not to scare someone.
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You be safe and well to. Thanks for your advice.
I'd be quiet happy to believe the pharmacist though. Just hope it works for ya.
If in 3 months my condition doesn't clear my doc is going to send me to a urologist to see if their is a connecting problem and issue.
I once asked a pharmacist how come he and his family looked so healthy? His reply was "Oh, I KNOW what is in those drugs - we dont take them ... we stick to natural cures"...... hahahaaaa .... "For every pill that cures something .. there is a side-effect" were also his words.
Strange how .. if you dont ever visit a doctor, you never get seriously ill. But once you start .... you go on and on and on ....
However, when I get sick, I go to a doctor. I don't believe that going to a doctor causes illness. If someone says that those who go to doctors will go back again and again BECAUSE they went to the doctor the first time, are very right. But the people who say this, while being right, forgot to think of one important link in the chain of causation, which is that the people who go to doctors go there because they are sick, and not because they want to get sick.
Those who need treatment for a disease that has no cure but can be treated, yes, those people will keep on going back to the doctor.
Those people whose illnesses can be cured, will go to the doctor and then not keep returning to the doctor.
The gold-plated sthetoscopes have nothing to do with what drug cures a disease or mitigates pain and suffering. It has to do with the system in a society how wealth gets distributed among its individuals. This is a political-economic issue, not at all a medical issue. I would never be bitter at someone else making a lot of money, because I would do it too if I could. Blaming a person for legally and lawfully making a bundle, is not that person's personal fault or weakness of character.
At that point she noticed a huge discrepancy in advice. I think the OP did the right thing in probing the issue, since three people she trusts and believes are expert authorities, gave her two opposing and contradictory instructions. These were: 1. Take these pills for your ills, and 2. Don't take these pills, because they are not recommended for women (and the OP already had the knowledge that she was a woman.)
She knew someone made a mistake, since at the same time and at the same respect a pill cannot be both recommended and not recommended.
So she probed, and she found out that the label was wrong.
Which was one of the authorities she had had trust in.
She now knows she can't trust all labels.
And this hurts, it would hurt me too, to learn that a trusted authority can't be trusted any more.
The OP pleads that the labels be more accurate. This is her way of putting an effort to get her to trust the world again.
She is trying to change the world so that she will be able to trust authorities without question.
A betrayal can do funny things to people, and the first thing it does to them is makes them feel hurt and pain.
There was a pretty lengthy discussion on that matter in another post somewhere else on the public forums or blogs on this site, in which I participated and was declared a heretic and a person to be hated by all other participants.
Angel's doctor should have at least pointed out to her what the drug was primarily intended for. Then set her mind at ease by explaining the possible side effects and so on.
I think doctors now use the same method of prescribing drugs as Angel did. Google it.
I'd still take the word of the chemist. I've found that they have the ingredient that matters..... they actually care.
I believe that people are slow to updating things in the computer, when I used to work for the airlines Delta was so far behind the times they just caught up just as the office closed. Things change on a regular basis, and things can be easily missed.....