Posted by yxibow on November 7, 2008, at 0:01:33
In reply to Re: What is your definition of a 'Miracle Drug'? » Midnightblue, posted by SLS on November 6, 2008, at 23:31:22
I guess I see in this that there are a lot of people who are stabilized successfully on medication and are enjoying their lives.
Yes, its semantics.
But it also begets "perfection" and a bit of "magical thinking". I'm not saying for everyone -- but that there is a superdrug combination that won't have side effects some time down the road that will never be able to be predicted, there is no such thing.
I think better living through chemistry is a fine idea, but chemistry isn't perfect.
There's hard work to be done besides the chemistry, and that involves other changes in life than merely medication.
I'm sure I'm projecting because of my experience of 7 years with over a dozen substances, some that have had totally unexpected and unpleasant rare results, but I'm just trying to put perhaps what realism I've come to get from those who are caring for me.
I absolutely wish some of my medications didnt "poop out" or however people like to describe it, but they're holding me at bay -- while I still wish they would work like they did.
You can't go back, you can only experience the presence like everyone of us does. And sometimes that plain sucks. Really does.
To new agents, to new scientific research in our lifetimes. But we have to accept then the results of those will also have side effects and to be careful what you wish for, because newer isn't necessarily safer, and if you look up any drug on Google, you'll be bound to find the lawyer sites.
I'm not trying to put a downer -- maybe I have, and its through my teary eyes that I do -- I just think that to wish, to have realistic expectations, and above all to have hope is the best cure.
I hope I see hope.
-- Jay
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