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@lgbtqnation @MyFabDisease “The most important thing that I learned from a decade of using the medical profession is that you need to supervise your doctors.” ― Steven Magee
@lgbtqnation @MyFabDisease The saddest part of Mark King’s tale is that he is allowing his doctors to overdosing him. Most doctor don’t know the first thing about drug interactions. ‘Primum non nocere’ is supposedly their first rule. “Primum lenocinor medicamina” is much more likely.
@lgbtqnation @MyFabDisease His bad reaction sounds like orthostatic hypotension. The means, when you get up, your blood pressure crashes & you collapse. It is almost always caused by drug interactions.
The crap in medical journals about new drugs was written by PR firms of Big Pharma (per JAMA). If you allow them, doctors will add one drug after another, overdosing you, as most of them interact. In fact, most are processed by the exact same liver enzyme (called ‘3A4’).
And some drugs (‘inhibitors’) block up the metabolism of others. You get tons of drug interactions and vastly more side effects. Few doctors know anything about drug interactions. In fact, they will prescribe to treat the side effects they caused,
thus causing more interactions and side effects. This actually has a name – the #PrescribingCascade.
