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Don't Confuse Real Healing With Suppression Of Disease
News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:03 PM EST
Article Source: The Huffington Postadvertisement
It is surprising how many people think that various conventional drugs have performed some type of miracle just because they provided short-term relief of pain or discomfort. Little do many people know that when a drug "works," this may be the "bad news." It may be that the drug works by suppressing the disease, thereby creating a much more serious physical and/or mental disease.
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{"commentId":10830908,"authorDomain":"gozounlimited"}
"What people don’t usually understand is that there may be a danger in the frequent or recurrent application of treatments that suppress symptoms. The concept of suppressing symptoms is well accepted and understood in psychology. It is commonly observed when a person suppresses his or her emotions, such actions tend to push the emotional turmoil deeper, leading the person to explode at some future time, often at people who are not directly related to the origin of the person's problem."
"While people may be familiar with the problems associated with the suppression of emotions, people are generally not familiar with the possibility that many conventional medical treatments can suppress their physical symptoms, driving the disease deeper into the person. And yet, suppression of disease is so commonplace in today’s medical treatment that it is virtually ignored."
"Doctors and drug companies tend to minimize the real problems of suppressing the disease process by referring to the “side effects” of a drug. And yet, pharmacologists commonly note that the determining a drug’s “effects” and its “side effects” are completely arbitrary. They are both the direct effect of the drug upon the human body."
How about the side effects of food? Has our food become drugs?
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#1 - Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:08 PM EST{"commentId":10832213,"authorDomain":"freebirdsfine"}
suppression of disease is so commonplace in today’s medical treatment that it is virtually ignored."
say that again, over and over, until it is heard and understood.
the cause, and finding it, would put drug companies, health insurance companies, medical complexes and communities back into their place, and not at the top of this american ponzi scheme of disease.
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{"commentId":10832277,"authorDomain":"gozounlimited"}
You said it.....
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{"commentId":10831227,"authorDomain":"alkimija"}
Although I'm highly skeptical of homeopathy, this is a good article generally.
Many medications simply suppress the symptoms of disease rather than curing them. Most dangerous are pain medications, especially anti-inflammatories, which take away the pain of a condition (hiding or disguising it) while causing damage over time to the kidneys and liver, which of course causes its own set of problems. Problems which again can be masked, not treated, with medication.
Physicians and patients have to be extremely careful that they're not merely masking the symptoms of a disease that can be cured instead of hiding it until it progresses to the extent that it might not be curable.
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#2 - Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:32 PM EST{"commentId":10831436,"authorDomain":"gozounlimited"}
Brilliant comment...enlightening.
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{"commentId":10831559,"authorDomain":"alkimija"}
Thank you, Gozo. A book that I highly recommend, and one which I get for family and friends if they become ill, is Prescription for Nutritional Healing. It's quite possible for a person to mitigate or even reverse the progress of an illness by making some relatively simple change to their lifestyle.
Medication, and especially surgery, should be things that people use as last resorts when all else has failed, not as primary treatment imho.
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{"commentId":10831788,"authorDomain":"gozounlimited"}
Thank You so much! We are trying to learn that in the US.
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{"commentId":10832249,"authorDomain":"freebirdsfine"}
a great place for the entrance into taking responsiblity for one's own health is
knowthecause.com
a great starter in getting back to reality.
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{"commentId":10831926,"authorDomain":"mstanley2265"}
I have to comment on this: I have heard many times that you don't get healed/fixed because the doctor just wants you to come back again and again to make more money. So, they don't give you something that will fix the problem. The statement is not really silly, just average people having a problem with not getting better faster. I propose that once you do get sick you won't get well as quick and a pill isn't always the answer. Alternative medicine is good in that people start trying to understand the basic problem of their illness and finding ways to heal their bodies but all people do not go to medical school or have the insight to find alternative medicines. Way big time education is needed for everyone and not the ads on TV. I am so sick of those (pun intended)
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#3 - Sun Nov 22, 2009 1:17 PM EST{"commentId":10832011,"authorDomain":"gozounlimited"}
Exactly....we are short on education and believable sources to educate us. Our corporate/government in the USA enjoys confusing everyone depending on what commodity they are trying to push. They don't care that they have destroyed our food system.... the root problem of most of our disease. What about the side effects of (so-called) food?
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{"commentId":10832343,"authorDomain":"freebirdsfine"}
we have been propagandized to think we NEED a medical degree to care for ourselves..... grandparents look at us like we are crazy, that is if they can think straight after being doused by dozens of drugs after an encounter with medical community for something they couldn't avoid.
Friend of mine went in to get a release to go back to work and was admitted on the spot. tried to tell them she was terrified of hospitals, but they didn't listen, by the time all was said and done they had here on nine different medications, three for anxiety and depression! took her three days to get them to listen.
yesterday when she went in for the follow up visit, the nurse gave her a book to read before they took her blood pressure and it was excellent.......... do you suppose the doctors will apologize and give her back her 5,000+ dollars for the bogus hospital admission? anyone take responsibility for the attack on her liver with all those unnecessary chemicals? or the high blood pressure medication that cost over 150.00 bucks and which her insurance wouldn't cover!
we don't need no stinking medical degree............. :)
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":10833882,"authorDomain":"millerboudicca"}
I don't care much for doctors at all and don't think we should have to have prescriptions for anything. I am really tired of doctors or anybody else being gate keepers for pain meds. They stigmatize people who need them and scare doctors into not prescribing them for those who need them. People who want to get high can buy booze or huff glue or paint as it is now--no biggie--addicts are addicts--this shouldn't penalize those who need pain or anxiety meds.
Does anyone on here who is making these comments understand nerve pain? the longer you have nerve pain the more likely you are to end up with permanent phantom pain. Some pain medications are needed. Some people are way better off with them even when addicted and can only function and have some semblance of a life with them--we are all going to die someday. Not all disease is treatable--not all is curable--with any means --no one should have to suffer with pain to be considered a strong or intelligent human being.
I think all meds of all sorts should be legalized and that with anti virals and antibiotics that only proof of infection should be required and then proof of taking the whole script should be required with a retest.This should be available everywhere from Starbucks to the Healthfood store to Mickey D's.
I am sick of the medical school regime and admissions and think the whole thing needs a total revamping.
with antibiotics and antivirals there is a worry that they will make superbugs--this is true which is the only reason that these should be re-evaluated with treatment. The rest? but off. People should be able to choose to see a practioner or NOT. I quit Mercola's deal over many things, but his really snotty attitude on pain meds was IT for me.
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#4 - Sun Nov 22, 2009 3:57 PM EST{"commentId":10834290,"authorDomain":"gozounlimited"}
It would be it for me too... as I am allergic to over the counter pain meds.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":10834541,"authorDomain":"millerboudicca"}
Gozo:
See so then it would be good for you too. Why don't they just let us do what works for us? the juvenilization of us as idiots who have to file past the doctors to get our permission slips is so annoying. I am having my double auto-transplant a week from tomorrow (well the first one) and I have been living on pain killers for 28 years. I hate them but without them I wouldn't have been able to work ever, or walk or anything. It was a struggle getting them and then there was always the ball and chain (we live in NY which is supposed to be the worst state for controlling) of never being allowed to get more than 1 months worth, so going anywhere there was the fear of running out away from home--Not only would the pain be intolerable but the withdrawal would be intolerable too. But I wouldn't be able to walk into a pharmacy and say give me some morphine and a patch please.
Even when they remove my kidney and put it into the iliac fossa, I will have phantom pain because the pain is so old, They told me that the longer you have a pain that is unaddressed the more likely it is to have phantom pain. They say also that the kidney has nerves that are really susceptible to phantom pains because of their unusual regenerative qualities. Uhhh, for me the relief is that I will not have to have surgery every few weeks (so they say at least) but I am not sure what the case will be with the pain meds. I certainly hope they aren't worrying if I am going to be a junkie or not--that is the least of my concerns.
My wife can't take any OTC pain meds either. She uses a homeopathic mixture but it doesn't work great and sometimes she has to take one of my pills, and suffer with the itchy allergic stuff-nausea and once in a while hives.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":10834943,"authorDomain":"gozounlimited"}
It is really healthful and helpful to have a physician who understands the pain issue. The quality of life should be the goal....and I hope yours increases exponentially.
{"commentId":10834943,"threadId":"730413","contentId":"3531182","authorDomain":"gozounlimited"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":10836148,"authorDomain":"millerboudicca"}
Why thank you Gozo, I am really counting on it. I am going to work with a pain management specialist after the surgery settles down. I am certainly hoping it has to feel better than constantly having to have surgery. Pain and anxiety really seem to push the buttons of some doctors. They just don't get it I think. I mean if you had bad anxiety your chances of finishing any medical school are slim to none. They make people freak out.
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