Posted by bulldog2 on August 20, 2008, at 15:01:47
In reply to Re: The stakes are too high. » atmlady, posted by Hygieia's Bowl on August 20, 2008, at 7:33:13
> Hey There Ms. atm
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> > I agree with you, Hy.
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> I am so very pumped as I rarely get an agreement. ; )
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> I am slowly realizing I am allowing the posted experiences of a few to cloud how I preceive and evaluate the manner in which folks are going about their treatment plans and maybe, just maybe, I'm not seeing the forest for the trees.
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> I wish you the very best in your quest. I've been doing well for some years now and it's a wonderful thang.I think you hit the nail on the head. One goes to a p-doc and has a game plan to try meds to get better. Than one comes here for med info and reads rants that meds don't work and someone's life history of med failures. So who does one believe? Do you believe in your p-doc and his meds or the ranter and his failures? I think at times this has caused vacillation and doomed my med trials to failure.It's one thing to start a med trial and endure the sides in the hope you will achieve remission and another to endure sides in a fruitless quest. Once the seeds of doubt are planted there's a good chance the med trial will fail.
I have heard many success stories talking to people who were on ad's. They were not on for life but used them for a while and were able to discontinue when not needed. But when they went to their docs they probably believed the meds had a chance of working. Had they come here first and read the rants who knows what the outcome would have been.
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