What Is the Goal of Medication? Posted: 01-20-07 07:24am
Iis it to make you feel better? "symptom
relief"? To make abstract numbers on a
clinical test look closer to a "normal"
heart? Protection against something?
I know...I suppose the answer is "it
varies by individual".
I ask because my doc seems to be after me
to up my medication, when I have no
particular complaints at the moment irt my
heart condition itself; my complaints, if
any, relate more to the side effects of
the damn drugs. I feel better, generally,
without them. I've been on atenolol for
several years now, but only 50mg/day.
When I first started that, I felt like a
lump. Couldn't get out of my own way.
Doc said to take half a pill...That
improved things some. I still felt sleepy
and generally unmotivated most of the
time...But for the most part, tolerable.
Last year, doc convinced me to take half a
pill, twice a day. Said it would make me
feel less fatigued if I could up the dose.
I keep trying to tell him, "more
pill=more fatigue". He says "no". Its my
heart that is causing the fatigue. I'm
not buying it.
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jonathan_679
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 08 Jan 2007 Posts: 9 Location: Calfornia
What Is the Goal of Medication? Posted: 01-20-07 12:10pm
While you may not 'feel' the medication is
helping, it is. Most of us are on some
sort of medication. Unfortunately, not
much research & development done by
pharmaceutical companies for product
development though we pay a huge amout
towards this. The fact is rightly
pointed out in a book “with a license to
kill” by john josefson
hope this helps a bit, I am sure someone
with more knowledge on this will pop in
and help you out.
