(February 16, 2015 at 9:51 pm)Beccs Wrote:(February 16, 2015 at 9:44 pm)psychoslice Wrote: I don't really care for the term alternative medicine, but if I have high blood pressure or highcholesterol reading, I won't be taking drugs for it, I will look at my life style and rectify that. Too many doctors put people on drugs for simple things that our life style has caused, I have friends who are on drugs for such things as high cholesterol, and the doctor has never asked them about their life style, so their on the drug for the rest of their life.
I have been offered drugs also for high cholesterol, and one time high blood pressure, I told the doctor no, and all I did was change my life style and the visit I was back to normal whatever that means. I feel if their are people out there that can help people to understand their bodies and how to keep it maintained for good health, and if they call themselves alterative or whatever name, it doesn't matter, as long as they can get good results which the doctor can't.
A GOOD doctor will get as much background information on the patient as possible.
Lifestyle changes often can help. Sometimes medications are the best results.
How many mentally ill people have been enticed of critical medication by "alternate healers", religious authorities, etc and then lost it and harmed others.
There is far too much prescribing medicines for basic ills that shouldn't be prescribed at all. How many young kids in the US and elsewhere are on meds simply because they're being kids?
Yes I agree, doctors have their place and what we call alternative medicine has theirs also, sometimes doctors can be of help and some times alternative medicine also, each just has to know their capabilities and not try to cure something they know nothing about.
I once had bad pain in my groin and pelvic area, my doctor told me it was just wear and tear on my lower lumber area. After nearly two years the pain was still there, I had an x-ray but it found nothing. I told my doctor, do you think it could be my prostate, he said no he didn't think it was. After complaining over and over about my pain, he then sent me for a blood test which showed a high reading of my PSD cells, he did the finger jab and said the gland felt larger than it should. After more test they found that I had cancer in the gland.
If I was the type of person to question my doctor I would probably be dead now.
