Timothy Birdnow

I know THAT'S right; I have medications whose sole purpose is to remind me to take other medications...

Doctors do things by the numbers; whatever your vial signs are, they try to get them in-line with the recommended "norm". I am always paranoid before a doctor visit; the guy might want a new med for me. I've gone so far as to lie to them about, say, blood sugar because I don't want them adding another medication to my list.

Case in point; my endocrinologist wants my blood sugar below seven and I may have trouble doing that sometimes. So she asks about my sugar and I tell her it's been fine because if she gets a hint it's been running a little higher she's going to add a medication. And then I usually get some terrible side effect - often constipation - and eventually I'll stop taking it. Then she'll want to try some other drug. The best thing a lot of times is just to leave me alone; there is usually a reason why my blood sugar is running high for that month (like it's my birthday or whatnot). But drugs are what doctors are about and so they add drugs and never get rid of them unless they know they are a problem. d

And there are too many cooks in the kitchen. I have a doctor for everything. To quote Comicus in History of the World "we got a (god) for everything. About the only thing we don't have one for is premature ejaculation, but I hear that's coming soon!" It's' like that with doctors. I swear, if I so much as cut wind they whisk me off to some specialist who then prescribes new medication. I'm too young to be this old and I think I got there by taking all these drugs in the first place; I'd probably be hale and hearty if I didn't take all this stuff. But I fear not taking it as I was inches from the Reaper 15 years ago and it no doubt saved my life. But it's just crazy how it all works.

That's not to say I lie to them often, or that I think they aren't doing me any good. I do. But sometimes it's just "for the love of all things holy stop already".

Anyway it's nice to have some science to back up what I've long thought. We've gone medicine mad.

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